Mariusz WOSZCZYŃSKI (1965), Cyclist and the beach; 2018

Water paints, watercolor, canvas; 50 x100 cm

Signed, dated, described on the back: M. Woszczynski / Cyclist and beach / 2018 watercolor, water paints

He received his diploma with honors at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Prof. Rajmund Ziemski's studio, and an annex in printmaking in Prof. Rafał Strent's studio. In 1990-1994 he was an assistant at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in the painting studio of Prof. Teresa Pągowska, then in the drawing studios of Prof. Zofia Glazer -Rudzińska, Prof. Hubert Borys and Prof. Julian Raczko. Since 1996 he has been working at the Faculty of Sculpture in the drawing studios of Prof. Zofia Glazer -Rudzińska and Prof. Jacek Sienicki, and since 2005 he has been running a drawing and painting studio. He has had solo exhibitions in Poland, Chile, France and Germany. He was on scholarships and art internships at the La Cambre School of Visual Arts and Architecture and the RHoK School in Brussels (1998); at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Prof. Konrad Klapheck's painting studio and Prof. A. R. Penck's printmaking studio) in 1995-96 and at the Ecole d' Art et d' Architecture in Marseille Luminy (1992-93). Recipient of scholarships from the TEMPUS Foundation, the DAAD Foundation, the French Government, the Walloon Community of the Belgian Government. Winner of the art prize of the EXIT quarterly, New Art in Poland (2006). Works in the collections of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo of the University of Santiago de Chile and in Polish and foreign private collections. A catalog was published in 2010: M. Woszczynski, Figures and Landscapes (published by the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw).