Opalinski Roman | Artist at Mondoir

Nationality: Ukranian

Discipline: painting

Based in: Lviv, Ukraine

Biography

My name is Roman Opalinski. I’m a contemporary Ukrainian artist. I was born in 1962 in Horodok, a small town in the Lviv region of Ukraine — and for over 40 years, I’ve been creating paintings that combine personal experience, sacred symbols, and everyday emotion. My works often reflect inner states, timeless questions, and the quiet power of color and form. I work with oil, wood, gold, and silver — using only traditional techniques and always creating each piece by hand, in a single copy. Art, for me, is not decoration. It’s a space of truth — where every viewer can find a part of their own story.

Artist Statement

My work explores the intersection of emotion, memory, and symbolism through bold colors and layered textures. I seek to capture fleeting feelings and transform them into lasting visual experiences. Each painting invites the viewer to reflect on their own inner world and the beauty of the unrepeatable moment.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions: • 2017 – Biennale Art (London, UK) • 2016 – Ukrainian Pompeya – Kryvorynnya (Lviv, Ukraine) • 2016 – Ukrainian House (Kyiv, Ukraine) • 2016 – Art Fresh Festival (Warsaw, Poland) • 2016 – Gallery Il Collezionista (Rome, Italy) • 2015 – Biennale Chianciano, Italy • 2015 – Biennale Nida, Lithuania • 2015 – Winter Salon Strasbourg (France) • 2014 – Gallery Gagliardi London, UK • 2014 – Art Monaco • 2014 – Biennale Chianciano, Italy • 2014 – Art Zurich, CH • 2014 – Fair of Festival of Art and Artistic Objects (Poznan, Poland) • 2013 – Biennale Chianciano, Italy • 2013 – Fine Art Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) • 2013 – Art Expo Fair (Krakow, Poland) • 2012 – Charitable auction (Lviv national museum, Lviv, Ukraine) • 2012 – “Lviv – 2012” (Lviv, Ukraine) • 2010 – Group exhibition in Elzas (Elzas – Lutterbach, France) • 2009 – Art-Kyiv (Kiev, Ukraine) • 2008 – Art-Kyiv (Kiev, Ukraine) • 2008 – “The bridge behind the walls” (Rouvroy – Élie, France) • 1997 – Lviv Autumn Salon “Vysokyy zamok” (annually, Lviv, Ukraine) Personal exhibitions • 2011 – Lviv (Ukraine) • 2012 – Kyiv (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland), Basel (Switzerland) • 2013 – Basel – Zurich (Switzerland) • 2014 – Basel (Switzerland), Kiev (Ukraine), Radomsko, Belchatow, Zgierz (Poland) • 2015 – Libionz (Poland), Myslenice (Poland), Lviv (Ukraine), ACUA Gallery (Edmonton, Canada), Bialoprudnicki mansions (Krakow, Poland), Nowa Gdynia Station (Zgierz, Poland) • 2016 – Ukrainian House (Warsaw, Poland), Slawske (Ukraine), Polonia House (Krakow, Poland) • 2017 – Artifackt Gallery (New York, USA), TOTU Gallery (Rzeszow, Poland), Orange Gallery (Krosno, Poland), Karwacian’s mansions (Gorlice, Poland) • 2018 – “Stacia Nowa Gdynia”, Zgierz (Poland) • 2019 – Windzor Art Faire, Gallery ZAU (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), Gallery “Jan” (Jankowice, Poland) • 2020 – Nybery Art Faire (Great Britain), PM Gallery Lviv • 2021 – Museum of Nature and Techniques “Ekomuseum” (named after Jana Pazdura Starachowice, Poland), Untitled Art Fair (London), Art Gallery, The Collectors Club (Ecuador) • 2022 – Artexpo New York (USA), Spektrum Miami (USA)

Awards

2005 — “Art as an Ambassador of Freedom” (Krakow, Poland) • 2005 — The art of freedom (Kiev, Ukraine) • 2004 — The art of freedom (Kiev, Ukraine) • 2013 — Award from the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine • 2013 — Award from the Lviv Regional State Administration • 2013 — Diploma from the Mayor of Lviv city • 2021 — International Art Prize “David Michelangelo”, Rome • 2022 — International Prize Leonardo Da Vinci: The Universal artist