Preston Romanienko - BFA '25 - Fine Arts

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 Preston Romanienko is a New Jersey based visual artist and painter born in 2000 from Olney, Maryland. He moved to Woodbridge, New Jersey in 2003. He received a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2025. Preston creates drawings and paintings which contain elements of surrealism, world-building and science-fiction inspired creature and character designs. He is loosely inspired by H.R. Giger, whose work explored themes of bodily surrealism, nightmarish fantasies and resilience along with Mariusz Lewandowski and Zdzislaw Beksinski, both whose work depicted atmospheric, dystopian surrealism. His goal is to make work that elicits philosophical critiques of the human condition such as; the questions and validation of life, control, agency and the illusion of autonomy and free will.