Dmytro Shavala

Dmytro Shavala is a Ukrainian artist who works with wooden sculptures.
He was born in 1994 in Shklo town. Currently, he is living and working in Lviv.
He mastered the work with wood at Joseph Stanko art school and at Lviv National Academy of Arts. He also participated in the workshop «Fonderia Versiliese» in Italy. During his studies he took to abstract sculpture. He started working intellectually on the shape and learned to feel and understand it. He researched Ukrainian wooden sculpture in an effort to reveal its aesthetic value and identity.
In his own works, Dmytro combines wood textures and tones, as well as glossy bright expressive colors, which emphasize clear geometric shapes, bringing his works closer to op-art. His sculptures are characterized by the use of iterative elements centered around the visual centers. The works balance between painting and sculpture. Through such dynamic compositions, Dmytro reflects on the concepts of development and transformation, the sources of which are internal personal processes.
He experiments with materials and casts work in bronze.
Dmytro is inspired by environment, geometry and color.
He participated in many exhibitions, including Artrooms 2019, London, Workshop «Fonderia Versiliese...

2009-2013 – Art Vocational School named after Yosyp Stanko (qualification – wood and birch bark carver, carpenter).
2013-2019 – Lviv National Academy of Arts (Master of Art Wood, teacher).

2025
FARBFELDER, ART ENGERT Gallery, Eschweiler, Germany

DIMENSIONAL DIALOGUES, Flavio Dolce Art Projects, New Orleans, USA

2024
MAISON D'ART GALLERY, Warsaw, Poland

SUMMER EXHIBITION, Art Gallery Rozendaal, Montfort, Netherlands

REFLECTION, ART ENGERT Gallery, Eschweiler, Germany

2023
ON THE EDGE, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

2022
"EFFECT DOMINO", Van Rij Gallery, Krakow, Poland

Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany

2021
Position Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany

2020
Shape of Environment, Park 3020, Strilky village, Lviv region, Ukraine

2019
Artrooms Awards, Melia White House, London, UK

Artrooms Roma, The Church Palace, Rome, Italy

Artrooms London, London, UK

2016
The Wood, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

Exhibition of Decorative and Applied Arts, Lviv National Gallery of Arts named after B. Voznytskyi, Ukraine