Romanas Borisovas

1973 he graduated from the Department of Design of Vilnius Academy of Arts Borisovas organised his first solo exhibition in 1989 in Germany, which drew good reviews in the press. Major exhibitions were held in 2006–2007 in the United States – at the World Lithuanian Centre in Lemont and at the Čiurlionis Gallery in Chicago. He exhibited 57 large-format watercolour paintings, 37 of which remained in the collections of overseas art lovers and fellow Lithuanians. Borisovas established ties with the lietuvininkai community association “Lithuania Minor” and German and Polish cultural communities in the Klaipėda and the Kaliningrad regions, allowing him to significantly broaden the geography of his exhibited works. He held numerous exhibitions in 2007–2015 in Lithuania, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland and even 19 in the Kaliningrad Region. He has been a regular participant in prestigious watercolour exhibitions in Italy as well. The artist Romanas Borisovas has created over 800 watercolours, most of them memorialising historic architectural heritage – the castles, manors, churches and fragments of the old towns of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Prussia. He has also created several dozen paintings and graphic art works. His archive shelves hold over a hundred sketches, he has organised 87 solo exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, and has released fourteen publications that are today considered rarities. He became a winner of the Liudvikas Rėza Prize in January, 2017.