Taras Keb
Taras Keb (Taras Romaniuk) is a Ukrainian artist born on April 5, 1979, in Lviv, Ukraine. He works in painting, graphics, and decorative and applied arts. His artistic language is shaped by primitivism, Art Brut, and naïve art.
The artist focuses on myth and mythology, the inner world of a self-taught artist, personal emotions and identity, the creative process, and the relationship between such an artist and society. He also researches primitive and naïve art in both Ukrainian and global contexts.
Taras Keb has participated in numerous group exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and international art events. His solo projects have been presented in galleries, museums, and cultural institutions in Ukraine and Europe.
Taras Keb (Taras Romaniuk) was born on April 5, 1979, in Lviv, Ukraine.
From 1995 to 2001, he studied at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2004–2006, he continued his education at the College of Polish and Ukrainian Universities in Lublin, Poland. From 2009 to 2011, he studied at the Ukrainian Academy of Design in Lviv.
The artist works in painting, graphics, decorative and applied arts, and other media. His artistic language is close to primitivism, Art Brut, and naïve art. The main themes of his work include myth and mythology, the inner world of a self-taught artist, his personality and emotions, the creative process, and the relationship between such an artist and society. An important aspect of his practice is the research of primitive and naïve art in both Ukrainian and global contexts.
Taras Keb actively participates in exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and international cultural projects. His works have been presented in galleries, museums, and art spaces in Ukraine, Poland, France, Slovakia, and other countries.
Among his solo exhibitions are projects shown in galleries and cultural institutions in Lviv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, as well as museums and international cultural centres.
Exhibitions, competitions, workshops:
October 2007 — participant in the erotic art exhibition “EI”, Museum of Ideas, Lviv.
December 2007 — participant in the exhibition “Angels”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
December 2008 — exhibition “Winter Fairy Tale”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
March 2008 — participant in the exhibition “Visual Art for Animals – A Peacekeeping Mission”, Lviv.
May 2008 — exhibition “Fairy World”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
September 2008 — participant in the naïve art exhibition “Naive Compote”, Lviv.
May 2008 — participant in the charity exhibition-auction of artworks for children “Neprohavden” within the children’s festival “Zabavden”, Lviv.
July 2009 — solo exhibition “Plump Stories”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
September 2009 — participant in the exhibition “Inspired by M. Prymachenko – Create Joy”.
April 2010 — exhibition “Sonograph”, Lviv.
September 2010 — participant in the exhibition “For Those Who Love Sweets…”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
December 2010 — charity auction exhibition “Tsimboryky”.
December 2010 — exhibition “Christmas Fairy Tale”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
April 2011 — “Dinner with the Artist”, Arteria Gallery, Kyiv.
May 2011 — “About Lviv”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
October 2011 — solo exhibition “Fish”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
December 2011 — participant in the exhibition “From Roman to Jordan”, Stari Mury, Lviv.
February 2012 — participant in the exhibition “Saint Goodwin’s Day”, Pravda B Gallery, Lviv.
March 2012 — participant in the exhibition within the festival “Shalom Ukraine”, Lyon, France.
April 2012 — participant in the exhibition “Indeed”, Pravda B Gallery, Lviv.
November 2012 — solo exhibition “Dia de los Muertos”, Pravda B Gallery, Lviv.
November 2012 — solo exhibition “My Fairy Tale”, Central Children’s Library, Lviv.
December 2012 — participant in the exhibition “From Roman to Jordan”, Stari Mury, Lviv.
December 2012 — participant in the exhibition “Winter Fairy Tale”, Slyvka Gallery, Lviv.
December 2012 — participant in the exhibition “Colorful Images” within the project “From Roman to Jordan”, Iconart Gallery, Lviv.
June 2013 — solo exhibition “Tree”, Pravda B Gallery, Lviv.
November 2013 — exhibition “Day of the Dead”, Pravda B Gallery, Lviv.
June 2014 — Art Naïf Festival, Katowice, Poland.
November 2014 — exhibition “All Saints’ Day”, Pravda B Gallery, Lviv.
December 2014 — charity Christmas exhibition, Marian Society, Lviv.
May 2015 — participant in the exhibition Urban Exploration Fest, Lviv.
June 2015 — participant in Art Naïf Festival, Katowice, Poland.
June 2015 — solo exhibition “Alexetemia”, Luft, Lviv.
July 2015 — participant in the exhibition Art Barbecue, Lviv.
August 2015 — participant in the exhibition “Ukraine in My Heart”, National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine, Kyiv.
September 2015 — one-work exhibition “Old Dog”, Hak Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk.
September 2015 — solo exhibition “Kovdronka”, Central Children’s Library, Lviv.
October 2015 — participant in the charity auction exhibition “Art of Help”, Lviv.
November 2015 — participant in the exhibition Day of the Dead, Luft, Lviv.
December 2015 — participant in the exhibition Anaid-Art, Lviv.
January 2016 — exhibition “Christmas Fantasies”, Gallery of the National Parliamentary Library, Kyiv.
April 2016 — solo exhibition “The City That Never Existed” within French Spring in Ukraine, Alliance Française de Lviv.
June 2016 — exhibition and workshops within the festival TuCzyTam, Sanok, Poland.
June 2016 — exhibition and plein air “Insitia”, Humenné, Slovakia.
August 2016 — participant in the Jagiellonian Fair, Lublin, Poland.
February 2017 — participant in the project exhibition “The Room”, Lviv.
April 2017 — participant in the project exhibition “The Room”, Kyiv.
September 2017 — participant in the group exhibition “Hak” at Mystetskyi Barbakan, Kyiv.
October 2017 — Day of the Dead-9, Zefirina Gallery, Lviv.
May 2018 — exhibition “Miracle Beasts”, Children’s Book Forum, Lviv.
November 2018 — “Dia de los Fridas-X”, Zefirina Gallery, Lviv.
December 2018 — Christmas Kaleidoscope, Stari Mury, Lviv.
January 2019 — “Strange Carols” (Taras Keb and Petro Buiak), Book Lion, Lviv.
March 2019 — participant in the project “Anarchy — Between the Street and the Interior”, Harry Bowman Gallery, Lviv.
April 2019 — exhibition “Where Is My Home”, Vagabundo Art Space, Ivano-Frankivsk.
April 2019 — participant in the project “Sacred Space”, Lviv.
May 2019 — exhibition “Where Is My Home”, Bunkermuz Gallery, Ternopil.
June 2019 — exhibition “Griffin”, Alliance Française de Lviv.
July 2019 — solo exhibition “Nobody”, Zefirina Gallery, Lviv.
October 2019 — participant in the project Salon, Futurahub, Lviv.
January 2020 — exhibition “Where Is My Home”, Book Lion Gallery, Lviv.
March 2020 — participant in the exhibition “Injection”, Lviv.
September 2020 — exhibition “I Am a Monster”, Lviv Puppet Theatre, Lviv.
October 2020 — participant in the Sheptytsky Biennale, Lviv.
October 2020 — participant in the Naïve Art Biennale, Ya Gallery, Kyiv.
May 2021 — exhibition “Samosii”, Cmok Gallery, Lviv.
October 2021 — exhibition “Tai-Take”, DK “Nazva”, Lviv.
January 2022 — exhibition “My Vertep”, Cmok Gallery, Lviv.
August 2022 — solo exhibition “Galician Flash Drives”, Ivan Franko National Literary-Memorial Museum, Lviv.
October 2022 — solo exhibition “Star Bearers”, Artpoint Intellias, Lviv.
November 2022 — solo exhibition “Galician Retablos”, Iconart Gallery, Lviv.
December–January 2022–2023 — solo exhibition “Here Angels Appear”, Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life named after Klymentii Sheptytskyi.
August 2023 — solo exhibition “For Every Day”, Cmok Gallery, Lviv.
December 2023 — solo exhibition “In Search of an Angel”, gallery-café “Nich”, Kraków, Poland.
September 2024 — exhibition “Creation of the World”, art-café “Kvartyra 35”, Lviv, Ukraine.
October 2024 — exhibition “Angels”, art-café “Kava z Molokom”, Lviv, Ukraine.