Ryszard Szozda, born in 1976 in Cracow, Poland.
Graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (diploma in 2002). He also studied at the Department of Photography at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. He lives and works in Warsaw.
Co-creator and director of the documentary film "Don't pay me" about the negation of the conventional priority of accumulating money and goods. Winner of the Grand Prize of the 13th Arte Laguna Prize for the painting triptych "Test #03" in 2019 in Venice .
Exhibitions:2024:
"Monkey Island" (performance installation) part of the project "Memory of the City" as part of the festival "Odyssey of Nowa Huta" organized by Dom Utopii and Teatr Łaźnia Nowa, former Jubilatka restaurant, Krakow
2023:
"One of these days, and it won't be long" (solo exhibition.), 81 Degrees Gallery, Warsaw.
2022
"Danger close" (solo exhibition), Piękna Gallery, Warsaw.
2021:
"Strictly commercial" (group exhibition), F.A.I.T Gallery, Cracow.
2020:
"Again" (solo exhibition), Nanazenit Gallery, Warsaw.
2019:
"Cracow Art Salon 2019" (group exhibition), Palace of Art in Krakow
"13th Arte Laguna Prize" (group exhibition), Arsenal, Venice
2018:
"Lito ASP KRK - Studio of Lithography of the Academy of Fine Arts Cracow".
(group exhibition), Academy Gallery in Bronowice, Cracow
Krakow Salon of Art 2018 (group exhibition), Palace of Art, Krakow
2017:
"Black, white, colored" (solo exhibition),UV21 Gallery, Warsaw
"I'm No Longer a Dog" / "I'm no longer a dog" (group exhibition), Silesian Museum in Katowice, Poland
"Monsters: They are among us" (group exhibition), Blank Space Gallery, Oslo, Norway
"Birds and Ornithologists" (group exhibition), F.A.I.T. Gallery in Cracow, Poland.
2007:
"Encounters in the City" (group exhibition), Palace of Art in Krakow.
2005:
"Man and Woman" (group exhibition), Palace of Art in Krakow
2004:
"Twins" (solo exhibition), Month of Photography in Krakow, Sheik Yerbouti Gallery, Krakow.
2003:
"All Tommorow's Parties" (solo exhibition), Month of Photography in Cracow, Sheik Yerbouti Gallery, Cracow.
2001:
"Lithographs" (solo exhibition), PWST Gallery, Cracow
"Photography without Past" (group exhibition), Museum of History of Photography, Cracow
2000:
"Sig Sauer" (solo exhibition), Galeria Otwarta, Krakow
"American visa" (individual exhibition), Galeria Otwarta in Krakow
"Krakov Praha 2000" (group exhibition), Polish Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
