Personal information:
Born in the town of Ylakiai, Skuodas district, in 1949.

Studies:
In 1976 graduated from Vilnius Institute of Art.

Activity:
Painter, associate professor in the department of painting at Siauliai University, member of the Lithuanian artists’ association. His paintings were displayed in various exhibitions in Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, the Netherlands, USA and Canada. In 1989, 1999 he organised personal exhibitions. His paintings are acquired by the Vilnius art museum, Vilnius art fund, Kaunas M.K. Ciurlionis museum, Zimmerli art museum in the USA, Siauliai museum “Ausros” and by collectors from the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland.

The most important group exhibitions:
1976 - 2001 annual Siauliai artists’ exhibitions, exhibition hall in Siauliai.
1976 young artists’ exhibition of the country, Art exhibition hall in Vilnius.
Siauliai artists’ exhibition, Art exhibition hall in Vilnius.
1977 art exhibition for the occasion of opening of the Siauliai exhibition hall.
Group painting exhibition, Art show-room in Vilnius
1978 Young artists’ exhibition of the country, Art gallery in Kaunas.
1979 Siauliai artists’ exhibition, Art gallery in Kaunas.
1980 Group painting exhibition, Art show-room in Vilnius.
1981 Painting exhibition of the country, Art gallery in Kaunas.
Young artists’ exhibition of the country, Art gallery in Kaunas.
Vilnius painting trennial.
1983 Group painting exhibition, exhibition hall in Siauliai.
Group painting exhibition, State library in Vilnius.
1984 Young artists’ exhibition of the country, Art museum in Vilnius.
1986 Group painting exhibition, Art show-room in Vilnius.
Topical painting exhibition, Artists’ hall in Vilnius.
1987 Siauliai artists’ exhibition, Jelgava, Latvia.
Art exhibition of the country, Art exhibition hall in Vilnius.
1989 World Samogitians’ art exhibition, exhibition hall in Klaipëda.
Lithuanians’ art exhibition, Goteborg, Sweden
1990 Siauliai artists’ miniature exhibition, exhibition hall in Siauliai
1991 Siauliai artists’ exhibition, Art exhibition hall in Vilnius
1992 Siauliai four painters’ exhibition, Etten-Leur, the Netherlands
1993 art exhibition of the country, modern art center, Vilnius
1994 “Individualist” group exhibition, modern art center, Vilnius
World Samogitians’ art exhibition, Samogitian art museum, Plungë.
1995 Siauliai artists exhibition, Kristianstad, Sweden.
1996 Siauliai artists’ exhibition, exhibition hall in Panevezys; exhibition hall in Klaipëda.
1997 “Art galleries presented by Vilnius modern art center”.
1999 World Samogitians’ art exhibition, Samogitian art museum, Plungë.
2000 Group art exhibition, Soest, Germany.
2001 Non-conformist art exhibition of the Baltic States, Zimmerli art museum, USA.

More about the artist:
Viktoras Liutkus.
"Romanas Vilkauskas: The Poetry of the Garage Door"

The Baltic artists’ exhibition at Zimmerli Art Museum (USA) compiled from the Norton and Nancy Dodge’s nonconformist 1956–1986 Baltic Art Collection featured seven works by Romanas Vilkauskas, an obvious favorite by the collectors and the curator of the exhibition.
The art by the Lithuanian painter must have attracted the American collectors, who in total have accumulated a collection of 20 thousand works of nonconformist Soviet art, by his ambition to feel the nerve of the time and temptation to lift the curtain of history. It is equally important, that in his works of the 1980s, - three of them, Garage Door (green, yellow, red) a highlight of Lithuanian portion in the cited exhibition, - Vilkauskas managed to find the vocabulary which best fitted his message: the rational style of the Photographic Realism. The painter though went a long way to “purify” his still-lives, interiors or landscapes showing seemingly mundane objects, like uniform post boxes of the dwellers in a block of flats into neat poetic images of the Soviet reality. Though he was not a single soldier on the battlefield (a group of four other Lithuanian painters started working in a similar manner before him), yet it was a revolt against dominating and largely preferred expressive and emotional style in painting. For the artist himself it took to liberate his manner from his initial straightforwardness in treating a social theme. Many a time his pieces were not only formal novelty, but also politically challenging statements, which made the art establishment and the boards of the exhibitions (in pre-perestroika era) reject his work.