Rumen Sazdov was born in 1959 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria. He studied at the Secondary Art School in Sofia and subsequently at the Faculty of Art of Cyril and Methodius University in Veliko Tarnovo, where he specialized in figure painting.

Since 1989, he has worked in Prague, where he has devoted himself to artistic creation, exhibitions and teaching activities, as well as working as art director at an advertising agency from 2000-2005.

From 2008 to 2010, he devoted himself to creating replicas from the Louvre, specifically the paintings “Louis XIV” and “Cardinal Richelieu”. He was represented by a prestigious New York gallery and participated in exhibitions and projects in Prague, New York and Italy between 2010 and 2015. From 2013 to 2014, he participated in the Fragile Beings project,  for which he created metal sculptures and sculptures.

Sazdov’s work is described as an artistic manifestation of opposites, in which records of psychological states alternate; he draws inspiration from the Byzantine world, the European Christian spiritual world and contemporary art.

His paintings are a blend of bold color, playful grotesque and social statement. Sazdov finds his face in neo-figuration and neo-expressionism, and his work reflects a unity of opinion, although at first glance it may seem composed of  incompatible opposites.