Mario Rojas Kolomiets is a Costa Rican artist and professor of painting and drawing.

Born in 1984 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Costa Rica.

At the beginning of his career, Mario Rojas Kolomiets represented in his artworks his own emotional experiences and how they influence an individual.

Later the artistic message of his paintings moved from being individual to psychological and social, properly representing the Western consumer society in which he lives.

The problem of modern societies worldwide is that people yield to "social values" when striving to gain power and pleasure, but such "social values" or so called "social morality" very often stay way aside from true values in people's lives. This dissonance creates the source of inspiration for the artist nowadays.

The artist believes that people's ego and desires are concepts imposed by a society - that's why their true individuality is in conflict with their ego.

He expresses his ideas in a very symbolic conceptual style at the same time using academic techniques.

Art Exhibitions

Individual:

• Exhibition "La Esencia superficial y la Superficie esencial" Cultural and historical center Jose Figueres Ferrer, San Ramon de Alajuela, Costa Rica, 2012.
• Exhibition "La escencia superficial y la superficie escencial" rectory Gallery, UCR, 2012.
• Exhibition "La Esencia superficial y la Superficie esencial" Historical Museum Dr. Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia, Costa Rica, 2011.
• Exhibition "Aquello" administrative gallery of UCR at the headquarters of Turrialba, 2011.
• Exhibition "Rutina: adentro y afuera", Rectory Gallery, UCR, 2009.
• Exhibition "Busquedas y Esperas", Gallery Olga Spinash, Association of Journalists of Costa Rica, 2007.

Group:

• Exhibition "Objeto Obsoleto", Casa de Cultura del Banco Popular Jose Figueres Ferrer, 2010.

Collective:

• Permanent exhibition of my works in the Galeria Valanti, Barrio Escalante Costa Rica, 2017-2018.
• Collective exhibition of the inauguration of the Brenes Gallery, Barrio Escalante, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2017.
• Exhibition "Collective of Professors of drawing" gallery of Ucreativa, headquarters of San Pedro, Costa Rica, 2014.
• Exhibition "Uncovering" Museum of Costa Rican art, 2011.
• Exhibition "High resolution: Once Upon a time..." En la casa del Curio, Antigua Fanal, Costa Rica, 2010.
• Exhibition "Gol-E-Arte", Casa de Cultura del Banco Popular Jose Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rica 2010.
• Exhibition of the Bachellors, Gallery of the School of Plastic Arts of UCR, Costa Rica, 2006.
• Exhibition, Professors and Students, gallery of the School of Fine Arts of UCR, Costa Rica, 2006.
• Exhibition, Arcem Central American Art, Eduart Gallery, Panama City, 2006.
• Exhibition, In hammocks Coffee, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica 2004.
• Exhibition of the Festival of Don Arnoldo Herrera, Theatre of the Conservatory of Castella, Costa Rica 2000 and 2001.