Jakub Słomkowski

About artist

Born
1982

Born in 1982 in Warsaw; Degree in Painting under Professor Krzysztof Wachowiak, Minor in the Department of Multimedia Art Creation under Professor Stanisław Wieczorek (2007) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw;
Erasmus Scholarship to Madrid (Spain, 2004/2005); winner of the competition Art Walk Open Call 2017 for the best design of an exhibition at plac Europejski in Warsaw (organized by the Art in Town Foundation); 1st Prize at the National Library of Warsaw Competition for the logo of the Year of Zbigniew Herbert (2008); 3rd Prize at the 6th Samsung Art Master competition (2009); honourable mention at the contest "Sztuka w kropki – Termo Organika" (2010); honourable mention at the 8th International Competition "Pintura Rápida de Castellar (Jaén") (Spain, 2006).
Selected solo exhibitions: Back to the Future at SH Studio in Warsaw (2017); Wild -  an Empirical Self-Portrait from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and Surroundings at BWA in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (2017); Dawn of Humanity at Galeria Sztuki BWA in Olsztyn (2015); Sacred / Animal - Victim (in collaboration with prisoners of a detention ward in Elbląg) at EL Gallery Elblag Arts Centre (2015).
Selected group exhibitions: Tide. Young Polish Contemporary Art at the Art Main Station by mia Gallery in the Central Railway Station in Wrocław (2016); Polish Art Now at the Saatchi Gallery in London (UK, 2013).

 

Works

Jakub Słomkowski

Whale’s Call

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