About

Nazar Symotiuk — Ukrainian Sculptor
My work begins where order meets its own limit.
I treat colour as a material in its own right — something with weight, structure and position, not a finish applied at the end. I build it the way one builds a wall or balances a figure on a stone: element by element, volume against volume, until it holds, or begins to strain.
My language comes from op art, a tradition I also study as a researcher. But I am less interested in the optical effect than in what it reveals: how a structure holds what it carries, and at what cost. Each series approaches this question from a different side — the unconscious routes of thought in Highway of the Unconscious; rupture in Invasion, begun before Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine and continued after it; the weight between a body and its support in Body and Ground.
Education
  • PhD Candidate, Decorative Art & Art Restoration, Lviv National Academy of Arts
  • MFA, Department of Wood Art, Lviv National Academy of Arts
  • BFA, Department of Wood Art, Lviv National Academy of Arts
  • Associate Degree in Fine Arts, Vasyl Stefanyk Pedagogical College
Selected Exhibitions
  • "Limits of the Visible", White World gallery, Kyiv, (2026)
  • “Ratio”, Solo Exhibition, Mercury Art Center, Lviv, (2025)
  • Art Budapest Market, Budapest, Hungary, (2025)
  • Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie, Ghent, Belgium (2023)
  • NordArt, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Germany (2021)
  • Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv (2019)
  • Lviv National Philharmonic, Solo Exhibition "De:Forma" (2018)
  • Forum Lviv, “5.ART” Project, Lviv (2017)
  • Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv (2017)
Publications (Selected)
  • Optical Art in Contemporary Wood Plastic — Visnyk of the Lviv National Academy of Arts
  • Conceptual and Perceptual Aspects of Op-Art—Lviv National Academy of Arts, Reserch Publication