Romans Suta (28 April 1896 – 14 July 1944) was a Latvian painter, graphic artist, stage designer and art theoretician.
He studied in a Realschule in Pskov but never graduated because he together with his brother fled to Riga in 1910 and about a year they worked on a merchant ships as cabinboys.
While in Russia, Suta resumed his studies in Penza city Art school where he met many other Latvian painters.
In 1922 Romans Suta married Aleksandra Beļcova and they traveled through Dresden and Berlin to Paris, where their daughter Tatiana was born.
After returning to Latvia they introduced the Latvian public to ideas of Cubism and Constructivism and Suta opened a porcelain painting studio Baltars in 1924.
After Latvian occupation by Soviet Union in 1940 Suta started to work in Riga Film Studio as a Chief designer for a movie Kaugurieši.
In late June 1941 when Suta was working on a movie "Melancholic Waltz" about composer Emīls Dārziņš, he was ordered to evacuate to Soviet Union with all his staff.