Nazar Symotiuk

My work begins where order meets its own limit.

Working with wooden relief structures, I build compositions from thousands of hand-placed elements — precise, repetitive, obsessive. The process itself is the argument: that structure reveals what cannot be said directly. The geometry of inner life. The architecture of sensation. The hidden rhythms of memory and perception.

Each series investigates a different register of this territory — from the unconscious highways of thought to the pulsation of color, from the noise of invasion to the silence inside form.

I work entirely by hand. Every element is measured, placed, and fixed individually. The scale of the work is inseparable from its meaning.

Feel free to contact me regarding available works, commissions, or collaborations.

Awards:

• 2023 — Recipient of the President of Ukraine Scholarship for Young Writers and Artists in the Fields of Music, Theater, Fine Arts, Choreography, and Circus Art
• 2023 — Shortlisted, Bokotey Prize, Glass Museum, Lviv, Ukraine
• 2021 — Finalist, Nord Art Prize, Büdelsdorf, Germany

• Vasyl Stefanyk Pedagogical College of Kolomyia, Faculty of Fine Arts, Associate Degree in Art Education, 2012
• Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts, Department of Wood Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), 2016
• Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts, Department of Wood Art, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), 2018
• Lviv National Academy of Arts, Postgraduate Program (PhD Candidate), specializing in Decorative Arts, Fine Arts, and Art Restoration, 2022
• Specialized Course in Object Design: Development and Implementation of Custom Chair Design, 2024

Selected Exhibitions

2025
• “Ratio”, solo exhibition, Mercury Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
• Art Budapest Market, Budapest, Hungary
2023
• “Mees-Van De Wiele Collective Exhibition”, group show, Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
• “On the Edge”, group exhibition featuring fragments of weaponry, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Summer Collective 2023”, group exhibition, Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
• “Bokotey Prize Exhibition”, group exhibition, Glass Museum, Lviv, Ukraine

2021
• “Nord Art 2021”, international exhibition of contemporary art, Büdelsdorf, Germany
• “Tower 3.0”, International Festival of Architecture and Arts, Svirzh Castle, Ukraine
• “Franko Laboratorium 3.0”, international art project, Franko House, Lviv, Ukraine

2019
• Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine
• “Connection”, group exhibition, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018
• “De:Forma”, solo exhibition, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Modern Decorative”, group exhibition, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
• “De:Forma”, solo exhibition, Lviv National Philharmonic, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Lviv Art Days”, Danylo Halytskyi International Airport, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Borders and Meanings”, group exhibition, Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine

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