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I was born in 1974 in Warsaw, Poland.
In 1996 I began to study painting and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. I graduated in 2001. I’ve been working as an assistant at the Graphic Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw since 2001. I do printmaking in traditional (etching, aquatint, linocut) and modern techniques (algraphy, silkscreen). I also make drawings, video art and take photographs. In 2010 I did my Ph.D. degree at the Graphic Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.


Selected Exhibitions:

1999

PN Gallery – Warsaw, Poland (solo)

2002

3A Gallery – Warsaw, Poland (solo)

Arboretum Gallery – Warsaw, Poland

2004

Genius Loci Test Gallery – Warsaw, Poland

2005

2 x Graphics – Sarajewo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

3A Gallery – Warsaw, Poland (solo)

Homo Mobilis - Olimpic Centre – Warsaw, Poland

2006

Contemporary Polish Graphic Art – Oslo, Norway

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Arboretum Gallery – Warsaw, Poland (solo - in collaboration with Blażej Ostoja Lniski and Marek Ejsmond-Ślusarczyk)

2007

Hans vs. Hans - Lazienkowska Gallery – Warsaw, Poland (solo)

A portrait of Warsaw - Museum of History of Warsaw – Warsaw, Poland

Meeting - Centre/South - Wodozbior Gallery – Warsaw, Poland

2008

The 13th International Biennial Print Exhibition – Taiwan

Edmonton Print International 2008 – Edmonton, Canada (Award)

1st Kulisiewicz International Graphic Arts Triennial IMPRINT 2008 – Warsaw, Poland

2009

2nd Guanlan International Print Biennial – Shenzen, China

1st International Biennial Eastern Salon of Art Lublin 2009 – Lublin, Poland

IMPRINT Contemporary Graphic Art Collection at Kulturföreningen Magasinet – Falun, Sweden

VI International Biennial of Contemporary Graphic Arts – Novosibirsk, Russia

Grand Prix of a Young Polish Printmaking 2009 - Bunkier Sztuki – Kraków, Poland

New Prints 2009/Autumn - IPCNY – New York, USA

2010

Thorndike Gallery, Southern Oregon University – Ashland, USA

Obrazowanie / Imaging – CS Galeria EL – Elbląg, Poland

Battlefield Landscapes, SNAP – Edmonton, Canada

Human Nature – University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton, Canada

Contemporary Polish Printmaking – Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China

Awards:

Museums and Collections Services Acquisition Award – Edmonton Print International 2008

Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation's Grant 2009

Several times awarded on Grafika Warszawska – Warsaw Print competition. It is one of the few cyclical events promoting contemporary printmaking. The competition is attended by artists from Warsaw and the Mazovian province.

Works in collections:

Museum and Collections at University of Alberta - Print Study

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Kulisiewicz International Graphic Arts Triennial IMPRINT Collection

The Organizing Committee of Guanlan International Print Biennial Collection

Artist’s statement:

Tradition in art has always had immense impact on my work. My fascination with Callot’s and Goya’s graphics as well as the memories of the second world war passed on in my family lent my works narrative character. However, I do not want my graphics to be appealing through brutal scenes or distorted pictures showing atrocities of war. I want to emphasize the aesthetic side of composition with simple forms as opposed to the graphics’ subject. This method of building up narration, when the subject of my work is not self-evident at the beginning, seems genuinely appealing to me. I deliberately resign form programming my work to be interpreted in only one way. It is possible to make art that is committed without moralizing at the same time. It all depends on how we use the symbolic means of expression. My graphics depict war without literal representation. Years of excessive exposure to suffering images have not changed anything. In the context of war atrocities it is far more important to show something unobtrusive and trivial. It helps us to understand that evil resides in reality and that it is present in everyday life.