Historian, art theorist, museum curator, art manager, artist, designer, teacher
Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Candidate of Art History, Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, Full Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society
Brief biographical information
Born on August 26, 1956 in the town of Khodoriv, Zhydachiv district, Lviv region. During 1973-1978, he studied at the Department of Interior and Furniture Design of the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts). Lecturers in the specialty – Myron Yatsiv, Karlo Zvirynskyi, Yuriy Skandakov, Mykhailo Kurylych, Volodymyr Ostrovskyi, Teofil Maksysko, Volodymyr Ovsiychuk, Stepan Koropchak, Danylo Dovboshynskyi.
From December 1979 to 1981 – Junior Research Fellow of the Lviv Museum of Ukrainian Art.
1981-1984 – Acting Head of the Department of Soviet Art of the Lviv Museum of Ukrainian Art.
1984-1994 – Junior Research Fellow of the Lviv Branch of the M.T. Rylsky Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (now the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
1994-2007 – Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
2007-2021 – Vice-Rector for Scientific Work of the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
From September 2021 – Professor of the Department of Artistic Wood of the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Teaching activities (2000 to present)
Lviv National Academy of Arts
Ukrainian Academy of Design
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Faculty of Culture and Arts)
Lviv Professional College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after I. Trush
Scientific activities
The main area of scientific interests is Ukrainian fine art of the 20th-21st centuries. Author of over 800 scientific and popular science publications, including a number of author’s monographs, albums. The main ones are: “Lviv Graphics 1945-1990s: Traditions and Innovation” (1992), “Myron Yatsiv (1929-1996). Life and Creativity” (2000), “Ukrainian Art of the 20th Century: Ideas, Phenomena, Materials: Collection of Articles” (2006), “Oleksa Shatkivskyi and the Ukrainian Art Circle “Spokiy” (2008), “Sculptor Emmanuel Mysko: The Light of Destiny” (2009), “Pavlo Maksymovych Kovzhun. 1896-1939: Biobibliographic Reference Book” (compiler, co-author, 2010), “Lyubomyr Roman Kuzma (1913-2004): Painting and Journalistic Heritage” (2010), “Ukrainian Art Exhibitions in Lviv (1919-1939): Reference Book, Anthology of Art-Critical Thought” (2011), “Ideas, Meanings, Interpretations of Fine Art: Ukrainian Theoretical Thought of the 20th Century. Anthology” (in four parts, 2012, 2019, 2021), “Olenka Gerdan-Zaklinska: biographical sketch” (2013), “Lyubomyr Yatsiv (1938 – 2001): Life and Creativity (Edited and introduced by R. Yatsiv; edited by V. Stasenko, D. Skrynnyk-Myska) (2013), “Ukrainian Fine Arts: Names, Biography, Works (11th-21st Centuries) (co-authored with I. Golod – general editor, O. Kravchenko, N. Kozak, O. Mykhailiuk) (2013), “Roman Chorniy, the Artistic Legend of Lviv” (2014), “Halyna Myroshnychenko-Kuzma. Life and Creativity: A Biographical Sketch” (2014), “Olenka Gerdan-Zaklinska (1916–1999): Life in Art” (2015) “Robert Lisovsky (1893–1982): Spirit of the Line” (2015), “Ivan Samotos: Album (introduction by R. Yatsiv Ivan Samotos: Motivations, Aesthetic Doctrine of the Spirit)” (2017), “Zoya Lisovska: Sources of Passion: Painting, Graphics / Roman Yatsiv / Foreword by Z. Lisovska; article by V. Vovk (2018), “Roman Turin (1900–1979). Under the European Hat: Album-Monograph / Roman Yatsiv / Compiled by G. Hronska” (2018), “Petro Gregoriychuk: Life and Creativity / Roman Yatsiv // Petro Gregoriychuk. Painting. Drawing (1914 – 1990): Album-monograph / Memories of his father: M. Hrehoriychuk; Life and creativity: R. Yatsiv (2018), “Ivan Ivanets (1893 – 1946): Rifle memoirs, creative heritage” (Edited by Roman and Andriy Yatsiv) (2019), “Yevhen Dzyndra (1913 – 1983): Carved paths of life” (2020), “A small chronology of artistic events and memorable dates of the 20th century: Ukraine – the world” (2021), “Dariy Grabar: in the projection of the genealogy. Album about life and creativity (Editor, introductory article by R. Yatsiv) (2022), “Petro Andrusiv (1906 – 1981): Artistic heritage, publications, archival and reference materials” (Editor Roman and Andriy Yatsiv) (2023), etc.
Albums of works: “Myth and Everyday. Painting and graphics by Roman Yatsiv” (2014), “Restoration of the rainbow. Painting, graphics by Roman Yatsiv” (2015), “Roman Yatsiv. Praise of silence: Painting, graphics (2017).
Laureate of the Lviv Regional Prize in the field of culture, literature, art, journalism and architecture in the nomination “Culturology, art history, museum work” – named after Svyatoslav Gordynsky (2008).
Scientific and editorial activities
Editor-in-chief of the journal “Art Studios” (1991-1993),
executive secretary of the scientific journal “Ethnographical Notebooks” (from 1995 to the present) (category “B” of scientific professional publications),
“Art Harvest” (2009-2011).
Member of the editorial boards of the “Bulletin of the Lviv National Academy of Arts”, the journals “Fine Art” (Kyiv) and “Dzvin” (Lviv).
Creative activities
Artist, works in the field of easel painting and graphics, graphic design. Participant of art exhibitions, including individual ones (easel works in the techniques of oil, acrylic painting, gouache, drawing with markers and felt-tip pens), art photography. Personal exhibitions in Lviv (1981, 1989, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2009, 2015, 2020, 2024), Rivne (2013, 2019, 2023), Drohobych (2015, 2024), Kramatorsk (2015), Druzhkivka, Bakhmut, Kyiv, Odessa (2016), Lutsk (2020), Kolomyia (2022), Ivano-Frankivsk (2023), in Poland (Lodz, 2015, 2019; Poznań, 2019, 2023), in Canada (Toronto, 2017). Member of the International Jury of the exhibition-triennale of contemporary painting (“Międzynarodowe Triennale Malarstwa Regionu Karpat Srebrny Czworokąt”) in Przemyśl (Poland), 2015, 2018, 2021, 2024, curator of the exhibition of works by Lviv painters in China (Ganzhou, 2011), other exhibitions in Lviv and Przemyśl (Poland). The works are kept in private collections in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Canada, the USA, China.
Internship in scientific, artistic and educational institutions
Department of Art of the Jan Długosz Academy (Wydział Sztuki Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowa) (Czestochowa, Poland) – lectures on the problems of art of the 20th-21st centuries.
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku) (Gdansk, Poland) – lectures on the issues of art of the 20th-21st centuries under the Erasmus + exchange program.
Member of the organizing committees of the International Conferences “…Sztuka/twόrczość… edukacja…” (Universytet Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Department of Cultural Pedagogy) (Lviv – Lublin, Poland)
Expert of works of art on the international art platform www.Artstaq.com (2015-2017)
