Biography
Education:
2022 PhD in Art and Humanities, RCA, London
2011 Advanced Diploma in Art History, University of Cambridge
1989 – 1996 MA course, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (MA in litography)
Honors:
2016 Red Mansion Prize - shortlisted
2014 Kyoto Exchange - shortlisted
2013 Drakes award for a painting
2013 Secret Postcard grant
2009 Honorary mention for a video, International Art Competition AKT,
Marquadt Gallery, Lodz
1998 Honorary mention, National Polish Exhibition of Painting, Obok
Gallery, Tychy
Exhibitions:
2023 Light and Water, (solo show), Eklektik Art Gallery, Wroclaw
2022 Unruly Encounters, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2019 There is Something Lurking in the Shadows, Dyson Gallery, London
2018 Wave, Stobardzki Park Narodowy
2016 Nothing to See Here, The Square Gallery, London
2015 Summer Cinema, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2014 Re: Search, Dyson Gallery , London
2012 Journey throuhg the Light, St Peter's Hungate, Norwich
2009 EspacioEnter, Art Tech Media, Teneryfe
Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Crosstalk, Budapest
International Art Competition AKT, Marquardt Gallery, Lodz, -
2006 Exhibition of Saint George’s Artists Society, Bielsko, BWA Gallery
2005 Exhibition of the Staff of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Third Age, Wroclaw,
Holiday Inn Gallery
Exhibition of the Staff of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Third Age, Wroclaw,
Otwarta Gallery
The day of Light Wrocław, Otwarta Gallery
2004 Exhibition of Saint George’s Artists Society, Lodz Museum of Art
After - Workshops Exhibition of Painting, Miechow, U Jaksy Gallery
2003 Indyvidual Exhibition of Paintings and Objects, Lodz, Poleski Art Center
2000 Exhibition of Saint George’s Artists Society, Lodz, Amcor Rentsh Gallery
1999 Exhibition of Saint George’s Artists Society, Lodz Art Center
1998 National Polish Exhibition of Graphic Art, Museum of Visla, Tczew
National Polish Exhibition of Painting, Obok Gallery, Tychy
1995 Students from Lodz Exhibition, ASP Gallery, Cracow
1993 Young Polish Graphic Art, Okno Gallery Slubice
Young Polish Graphic Art, Frankfurt
Publications:
in preparation The Physics, Metaphysics and Poetics of Wavelength by Michael Snow; The Motif of Waves, Light and Shadow in the Context of the Light–Matter Relation, Higher Dimensions of Space and The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Academia.edu, 2021 From Physical to Mystical Light. The Evolution of the Idea of Light in Paweł Kwiek's Works in 1974 - 1980
Artluk, 09.2008 Geometrical Symbolism in Byzantine icons and in Geometric Abstraction in the Twentieth Century. Searching the Roots.
Artluk, 02/2011 Deconstruction of Geometry, Deconstruction of Light? Interview with Peter Halley
Artluk 06.2007 Biblical visions - Anselm Kiefer`s Jericho and Open Ground – report from Anselm Keifer installation and exhibition in London
Artluk 03.2007 Mediocrity on the Top – report on modern art exhibition,
Professional experience:
Founder member and Manager of The Third Age Academy of Fine Arts (2004 – 2006)
Acquisition adviser for the Contemporary Museum Wroclaw (2022 – Present) voluntary work
⦁ Proposing artworks from the British art circles for the collection of the Museum
⦁ Mediating between artists, galleries, and the Museum.
Since 1996 artist, freelancer illustrator, photographer, and graphic designer