Roman Košťál (*1999, Ústí nad Labem) is studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the Drawing Studio led by Alice Nikitinová and Matěj Smetana. His work moves on the boundary between drawing and painting and is characterized by a distinctive visual language. In his melancholic charcoal drawings, he depicts colorful figures representing the living and black-and-white figures symbolizing the dead. He has long focused on the themes of death, spiritualism, Satanism,and horror. His works often capture figures moving on the border between dream and reality, the world of the living and the realm of the deceased.
He studied Applied Painting and Glass Processing at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenický Šenov. In 2022, he was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague into the Drawing Studio led by Jiří Petrbok and Martin Gerboc. Since 2023, he has been studying in the studio of Alice Nikitinová and Matěj Smetana. He received the Oskar Ostrava Award for his figurative painting (1st place in 2019, 3rd place in 2017).