Roman Śledź, a contemporary Polish folk art sculptor, was born on 12 May 1948 in the village of Malinówka within the Gmina Cyców, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
In 1968, at the age of 20, intrigued by an article he had read in the Gazeta Lubelska [pl] newspaper about sculptors from Wola Korybutowa,[4] he made an attempt to carve his first sculpture.
Shortly after that, thanks to the recommendation from Polish Academy of Sciences Ethnological Committee Prof. Aleksander Jackowski to the Cepelia Association [pl] which arranged his first individual exhibition in Warsaw in 1978.
In 1979 Roman received the Brother Albert Prize (Polish: nagroda imienia Brata Alberta) for religious output.
In 2002, he received the Oskar Kolberg Award For Merit to Folk Culture (Polish: Nagroda im.