29x29 (50x50 in frame), mixed technique on paper, 2006
Born 1976, Starachowice
Painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, author of installations and spatial objects on the borderline of painting and sculpture. Graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. He received his diploma with honors in 2003 in the Visual Information Design Studio of Prof. Jerzy Trelinski and in the Drawing Studio of Prof. Krzysztof Wawrzyniak.
He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the winner of The 2006 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition - an exhibition at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, New York (at the invitation of curator Ms. Manon Slome of the Chelsea Art Museum in NY'c). Winner of the 2003 Picture of the Year at the Warsaw Rabbit House, nominated for the Arteon Award in 2005. Two-time winner of an art scholarship in the painting category funded by the prestigious - The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. of Manhattan, New York. He was awarded a scholarship with distinction in 2004-2005 (in the category - painting) and, by decision of the Board of Directors of the Foundation's Board of Artistic Directors, he was the recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for the period 2015-2016. In November 2015, with the author's Birch Galerie, Dialog curatorial project, he represented Lodz and Poland at the Art Forum - "St'Art 2015", the 20th, anniversary edition of the International Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art in Strasbourg, France. Recently, in 2016, the artist also exhibited his works at the fair shows: 1st ART-Stuttgart (DE) and 1st Luxembourg Art Fair (LU). The artist works in his own studio in Lodz, Poland, preparing works successfully presented at numerous festivals and art fairs in Europe.
A major presentation of the artist's work, in late 2017/2018, took place in Stuttgart (district - Bad Cannstatt), at Galerie Wiedmann, Germany. Recent major art projects/presentations include participation in the 27th edition of Huntenkunst 2019 in Ulft (NL) and an exhibition at Marziart Internationale Galerie, Hamburg (DE) - also in 2019. Most recently (in 2021), as an originator and curator, he realized a major exhibition project during the 18th International Festival of Jewish Culture - Singer's Warsaw 2021, in the capital (beneficiary of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art and the MKiDN in 2021).
