Roman Zhuk is a classic of Ukrainian Transavantgarde. He stood at the origins of contemporary Ukrainian art in the late 1980s, together with Arsen Savadov and Heorhii Senchenko (the founders of Ukrainian Transavantgarde). Zhuk is considered one of the founders of Ukrainian Transavantgarde (contemporary Ukrainian art).

The artist creates in an original pictorial manner, developed throughout the 1990s, transforming traditional genres — still life and portrait — into mysterious narratives infused with surrealism. His works are characterized by the juxtaposition of contrasting, saturated colors and shades.

The art of Roman Zhuk is composed of half-hints, strokes, glances, gestures, half-turns, and unfinished thoughts, behind which one can discern quotation, heightened emotion, and context. This is what distinguishes Zhuk from his contemporaries, the postmodernists. Through his art, he appears to the world as a metamodernist with profound inner archaism.

His works are preserved in the Lviv National Art Gallery, the Sumy Art Museum, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts of Ukraine, and others. Roman Zhuk lives and works in Lviv and Amsterdam.