Roman Minin

About the artist

Roman Minin was born in 1981 in Dimitrov, Donetsk region. Roman Minin was born into a mining family. Propensity for fine arts allowed him to immediately enter the second year of the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Art. After graduating from university, the artist took part in a number of creative competitions and festivals, becoming a laureate in many of them. In 2010, the first exhibition of Roman Minin's paintings took place. The exhibition was called "Dreams of War". The paintings were exhibited in the Kharkiv gallery "Vova-Tanya". Since then, Roman Minin often presents his works at personal and group exhibitions.In 2012, the artist became the organizer of the street art festival in Kharkiv. At the same time, he headed the program "Isolation in the urban space" in the Donetsk center of contemporary art "Isolation". The picture "Escape Plan from Donetsk Oblast" brought him fame outside of Ukraine. Which allowed Minin to take a significant step to combine the artistic practice of a painter with social interaction and created his own scheme of rescue from imprisonment and release from a closed social system that forbids exit. He has been engaged in the theme of mythologizing the life of Donbass and the life of miners in recent years. Roman Minin became one of the artists who participated in the painting of the facade of the new building of the Kyiv Children's Clinical Hospital "OHMATDYT". In 2016 he topped the list of the most promising artists of Ukraine according to Forbes. His works are sold in the world's largest auction houses Sotheby's and Phillips.Roman Minin experiments with street art, photographs, installations, stained glass windows with artificial lighting. He works with monumental art, graphics, photography, objects and installations. Now he is a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. He lives and works in Kharkiv.

List of the exhibitions
Personal exhibitions:
2015 - Transformatka, ErmilovCenter, Kharkiv
2011 - Escape plan from Donetsk region, Kharkiv city art gallery, Ukraine
2010 - Dreams about war, Vova-Tanya gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2010 - Symbol of Faith, Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 - Miner's Folklore, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 - Moloda Sztuka Charkowa, Salon Posnania Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2007 - Your Miner, City Administration Office, Donetsk
2007 - Happy with fire, Maestro gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2007 - SMS-Art, Maestro gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Group exhibitions:
2016 - Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2016 - 10xYOUNG, gallery “Mistetska zbirka”, Kyiv
2015 - New Perspectives: 8 Contemporary Artists of Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
2015 - Art Copenhagen 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 - ART KYIV Contemporary 2015, Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv
2015 - Ukraine. Transformation der Moderne, Osterreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna, Austria
2015 - Just art, ARTVERA’S ART GALLERY, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 - Scope, BARBARIAN-ART GALLERY, New York, USA
2015 - K?LNER LISTE 2015, Cologne, Germany
2014 - Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2014 - Art Scope, Miami, USA
2010 - Folklore of Miners, City Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine
2009 - Art Kyiv Contemporary, Death Match project at the Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 - GogolFest, Artistic Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 - Street Art Festival, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2008 - Anniversary All-Ukrainian exhibition 70 years of Union of Artists, House of Artists, Kharkiv
2008 - Street Art Festival, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2008 - International Science Fiction Festival, BC Kharkov Law Academy, Kharkov
2008 - Bob Fest, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2008 - Arteria, contemporary art festival, Poltava, Ukraine
2008 - Mobile Solitude, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2008 - Land Art. Mogritsa 2007, Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 - 27th Miniprint international of Cadaques 2007, Taller Galeria Fort, Spain

List of the exhibitions