Oskar GORZKIEWICZ (b. 1988), Urban Mirrors, 2020

Etching, paper composition: 59.5 x 49.5 cm, paper: 72 x 51.5 cm, 3/15, signed p.d.: Oskar Gorzkiewicz, 2020

Born in 1988 in Koluszki. Graduate of the Tadeusz Makowski Visual Arts School Complex in Łódź. Obtained a bachelor's degree in art from the Faculty of Material Technology and Textile Design at the Institute of Textile Architecture, majoring in design at the Technical University of Lodz. Graduated from the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting, majoring in Graphic Design. Diploma in 2014 in the Studio of intaglio techniques of Prof. Krzysztof Wawrzyniak. In 2012 - 2013, he participated in the International Graphic Arts Symposia at the KAUS International Center for Artistic Graphics in Urbino, Italy. In 2013, he held an artist residency at the GEDOK Association in Stuttgart, Germany. After graduation, from 2014 to 2015, he served as an assistant at the Studio of Fundamentals of Workshop Graphics at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Then, from 2015 to 2016, he served as an assistant in the Studio of Applied Drawing at the Faculty of Interior Design and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. He assisted eight times during the PATA International Summer Courses in Artistic Drawing held from 2014 to 2019 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. In 2019, he received his PhD in Art at the Community Doctoral Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He currently serves as an assistant in the Studio of Intaglio Techniques led by Dr. Alicja Habisiak-Matczak, Prof. of the Academy of Fine Arts. Participant of many international exhibitions of artistic printmaking in Brazil, China, France, Spain, Japan, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, USA and Italy. Author of seven solo exhibitions in Poland and Germany. Winner of many awards in graphic design competitions. Among them, the winner of the second prize in the 44th Edition of the Carmen Arozena International Competition, 2016 in Madrid, Spain, and the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation Honorable Mention, 2017 in Warsaw, Poland.

List of artistic achievements

Individual exhibitions:

2020 - "Oskar Gorzkiewicz - Graphics," Amcor Gallery, Lodz, Poland.
2019 - "Oskar Gorzkiewicz - Collection of prints inspired by architecture? urban? Author's way of multi-matrix printing in paste-down techniques", OdNowa Gallery, ASP, Lodz, Poland
2016 - "Oskar Gorzkiewicz - Graphics", Pod Plafonem Gallery, Lower Silesian Public Library, Wroclaw, Poland.
2016 - "Views of Cities", Graphics Gallery of the Art Library, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland.
2016 - "Multis Cruris" (together with Jonasz Koperkiewicz, Ewa? Mielczarek), Gallery 526, Poleski Os´rodek Sztuki, Lodz, Poland.
2016 - "Oskar Gorzkiewicz - Graphics", Gallery 144, ASP, Lodz, Poland.
2015 - "My Visions of the City II", Art Market Gallery, Lodz, Poland.
2015 - "Vermis" (with Jonasz Koperkiewicz, Ewa? Mielczarek), Gallery 526, Poleski Os´rodek Sztuki, Lodz, Poland.
2014 - "My visions of the city", Museum of the City of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
2013 - exhibition of prints "Point of view", Oskar Gorzkiewicz and Anja Klafki, Rathaus, Stuttgart, Germany and at Gallery 87, Lodz, Poland
2013 - printmaking exhibition at Kit Karson Gallery, Hammerfest, Norway

Selected group exhibitions:
2020 - "Flaneurs and Dandys suspended in a Smartphone. Chiado, Carmo and arts in the public sphere", Wł. Strzemin´ski Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland; Museo Arqueologico do Carmo, Lisbon, Portugal; Casa de Portugal, Paris, France.
2019 - "Printmaking from the Institute of Artistic Graphics in Lodz," Gallery of the Department of Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.
2019 - "Polish Printmaking and Textile Art - Works from the Strzemin´ski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz", FAB Gallery, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Edmonton, Canada
2019 - "Flash Drawing Tour 2019", Oratorio San Giovanni, Urbino, Italy.
2019 - "PATA Final Show I", Kobro Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
2019 - "Lodz Graphics to Gdan´sk - Exhibition of pedagogues of the Department of Artistic Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz", Hall of the Great Armory, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdan´sk, Poland
2019 - "Lodz Graphics on a Silk Road", China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China.
2018 - "Uncommon Graphics", Biblio-Art Gallery, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland.
2018 - "50th Yokosuka Peace Exhibition of Art", Yokosuka City Gallery, Kanagawa Pre., Japan
2018 - "Interlacing, The Drawers," Headbones Gallery, Vernon, Canada
2018 - "Flash Drawing Tour 2018", "Pomie?dzy" Student Graphics Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Lodz, Poland
2018 - "Carmo, Chiado and the Heart of Darkness", Wł. Strzemin´ski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland;
Sala Acua, Centro de Iniciagvas Culturales, Cuenca, Spain; Sala Vieire da Silva, Casa de Portugal, Paris, France; Museo Arqueologico do Carmo, Lisbon, Portugal.
2018 - "International Contemporary Print Making Exhibiton Forum 2018," Empreinte a l'atelier, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
2018 - "PATA - Printmaking And Textile Art", Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland.

2018 - "Be?cards Strzemin´ski", Kobro Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Lodz, Poland.

Awards:
2017 - honorable mention during the 25th Edition of the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation Award - Graphics 2017, Warsaw, Poland.
2016 - 2nd prize during "The International Print Award Carmen Arozena 2016", Madrid, Spain.
2015 - nomination in the Polish edition of "Prix Canson 2016", Krakow, Poland
2015 - nomination in the 9th Biennale of Student Graphics, Poznan, Poland
2015 - prize in kind from the Company "Gart - Zaopatrzenie artystów plastyków", Lodz, Poland.
2014 - honorable mention in the Competition for the best graduation works of students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz - PRIME TIME 2014.
2014 - prize of the International Center for Artistic Graphics KAUS Urbino, in the 31st edition of the Competition named after Wł. Strzemin´ski - Pie?art
2013 - 1st prize in the Competition for graphics thematically related to the Theological Seminary in Lodz.
2013 - nomination for award in the Fine Arts competition, 30th edition of the Wł Strzemin´ski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz.
2013 - award of the Museum of the City of Lodz in the 30th edition of the Wł. Strzemin´ski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz.
2013 - award of the 526 Gallery as part of the 30th edition of the Wł. Strzemin´ski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz.
2013 - award of the Culture and Business Foundation in the framework of the 30th edition of the Wł. Strzemin´ski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz.