Roman Prokhorov

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Roman Prokhorov was born in a family of artists. He started painting at the age of three, straight away with oil paints, which were always easily accessible. He took his first steps as a professional artist at the age of 10 under the guidance of his father.
A characteristic trait for Roman is inquisitiveness, pushing to master the most diverse forms, genres and trends in art and science.
In addition to painting the artist is passionate about: entomology (as a youth he collaborated with the Department of Entomology of the Odessa University and the Department of Entomology of the St. Petersburg University and assembled an extensive collection of beetles and butterflies), paleontology (restores the appearance of extinct animals), macro-photography of live insects in hard-to-reach tropical rain forests, literature (essays and sketches from travel, scripts, stories for children), he playing music on a variety of percussion instruments (specialist in the Kanjira drum).
According to the artist, all forms of science and art inevitably converge at one point, the name of this point is harmony. If you look at the whole...

Department of Sculpture at the Grekovs Art School in Odessa, Ukraine.
Department of Graphics at the Imperial Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Department of Painting at the National Academy of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine.
I completed my postgraduate studies with a Masters Degree in Painting at the National Academy of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine.

2007
Solo exhibition «Shiko gallery» Kiev, Ukraine

2006
Museum of Russian Art, Shanghai, China

2004
«Alikberov’s students»
Museum of Academy of Fine Art, Kiev, Ukraine

1993
«Butterfly»
Gallery #12, Dortmund, Germany

1992
«Fantastic animals»
Ukrainian Union of artists, Kiev, Ukraine