Painter of Oriental Nudes, 2021
Oil on canvas, dimensions: 120 x 140 cm
Work signed on the back
The work comes from an exhibition at Mościce Art Center, photo report: https://csm.tarnow.pl/multimedia/864,jacek-sroka-komiks-z-mojego-zycia-wernisaz-wystawy-malarstwa
Jacek Sroka (born 1957) - painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Born in Cracow in 1957. Studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, received his diploma in the Copperplate Workshop of Prof. Mieczyslaw Wejman, in 1981. From1981-1988, he was an assistant at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 2018, he taught a course in printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University in Beijing. From 2014 to 2018, he co-founded the Graphic Arts Center in Nantong, China.
He has exhibited paintings and prints in studios of twenty solo shows (including Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Reykjavik, Amsterdam, Maastricht, San Francisco, Vienna, Lyon, Curitiba, Beijing) and several hundred group shows in Poland and around the world.
The artist's works are in museum collections in Poland (e.g. National Museum in Cracow, L. Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom; Museum of Art, Lodz; Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom, Jagiellonian Library,Cracow; Graphic Collections of PAU, Cracow ) and in the world (e.g. Metropolitan Museum, New York; Graphishe Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; British Museum, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musee Savoisien, Chambery; Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque National de France, Paris; Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba; Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo) and numerous private collections.
The artist has won prizes and awards at the Mulhouse Biennale of Printmaking (1984), the Toronto International Exhibition of Miniature Art (1986), Graphica Atlantica in Reykjavik (1987), the Vaasa Biennale of Printmaking (1987), the Grand Prix at the Seoul Biennale of Printmaking (1988), the I.Trybowski Award at the International Triennial of Printmaking (1988), and the I.Trybowski Award at the International Triennial of Printmaking. I.Trybowski at the International Graphics Triennial in Cracow (1994 ).
Nominated for the "Polityka" Passport in 1996; winner of the Witold Wojtkiewicz Award (2001); awarded the Bronze Medal "Gloria Artis" and , awarded by the ZPAP Krakow District, the Medal Vive l'Art. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Skills (2022).
