Leon Tarasewicz

Leon Tarasewicz was born on 14 III 1957 in Stacji Waliły, in the Białystok region. During 1972 - 1977, he was a student of the High School in Plastic Arts in Surprasl. In the years 1979 - 1984, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He made his debut in 1984 in the Dziekanka Worshop, received his diploma in 1984 in the studio of professor Tadeusz Dominik. Since 1996 he has been running a guest workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is engaged in cooperation with Nordenhake Gallery and the Springer & Winckler Gallery in Berlin. Raises exotic poultry, he is the chairman of Exotic Poultry Breeder; Club ;Gallus; He resides in Walily. Selected awards: 1989 Artistic Prize of the Minister of Art and Culture 1990 Jury’s Special Award at the 22nd International Painting Festival, Cagnes sur Mer, France 1998 Jan Cybis Award 1999 The Nowosielski Foundation Award 1999 Paszport Polityki; “Polityka; magazine award Works in collections : Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Art Museum, Łodz; National Museum, Wroclaw; National Museum, Warsaw; National Museum, Poznan; District Museum, Bydgoszcz; Foksal Gallery, Warszawa; The Centre of Contemporary Art (CSW), Warszawa; Gallery of Contemporary Art Zachęta, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok; Egit Foundation, Warszawa; Per Mattson's collection, Värnäanäs; George Costakis; collection, Athens; Arthur Sackler's collection, Nowy Jork; Federik Roos; collection, Malmö; Selected individual exhibits: 1984 Foksal Gallery SBWA, Warsaw 1985 Biała Gallery, Lublin's Cultural Center, Lublin, Foksal Gallery SBWA, Warszawa 1986 Nordenhake Gallery, Malmö, Stockholm Galleria del Cavallino, Venice Riverside Studios, London 1987 Damond Brandt Gallery, New York Edward Thorp Gallery, New York 1988 Exhibition Hall, Grodno Palace of Art, Minsk 1989 Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London 1991 Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1992 Springer & Winckler Galerie, Frankfurt at Main Malmö Konsthall, Malmö 1993 Palace of Art, Minsk 1995 High Silesia Museum, Bytom Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA, Katowice BWA Arsenał Gallery, Białystok 1997 Biała Gallery, Lublin 1999 Gallery of Contemporary Art Zachęta, Warsaw 2000 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw 2001 Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York Polish Pavilion at the 49th International Biennial in Venice Biała Gallery, Lublin Starmach Gallery, Cracow Galerie Springer & Winckler, Berlin New Works, Nordenhake Gallery, Berlin 2002 Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padwa Gallery of the Śląsk Opolski Museum, Opole Polish Institute in Berlin, Nordenhake Gallery, Berlin Selected collective exhibitions: 1985 4 Foksal Gallery Artists, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh Dialog, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1986 Overland, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, The Forest, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1987 What’s up The Old Norblin Plant, The Technology Museum Division, Warsaw XIX International Art Biennial Sao Paulo Radical Realism. Concrete abstraction, National Museum, Warsaw 1988 Aperto ‘88, Biennale di Venezia, Corderie delle Arsenale, Venice Art at the Edge. Contemporary Art from Poland, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Polish Realities. New Art from Poland, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow; 1989 Vision and Unity, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn Dialog, Kunstpalast, Hall A1, Düsseldorf; Wilhelm-Lembruck-Museum, Duisburg 1991 Positionen Polen, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Sculpture - Nash. Painting - Tarasewicz, Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw 1993 Bilans - Balans, Biała Gallery, Cultural Center, Lublin 1994 Der Riss im Raum, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw 1997 Jerzy Nowosielski, Leon Tarasewicz, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw 1998 Oikos, District Museum, Bytom 1999 Toyama Now ’99, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama 2000 Art negotiators, Center for Contemporary Art „Łaźnia”, Gdansk Painting. Leon Tarasewicz. Tiberi Silvashi, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev Verteidigung der Moderne Positionen der Polnischen Kunst nach 1945, Museum Würth, Künzelsau Die vier Jahrezeiten. Polnische Landschaftmalerei von der Aufklärung bis heute, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt nad Menem 2001 In Between: Art From poland 1945 - 2000, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Negotiators of Art with Reality, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow Here & Now, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Zachęta, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok 2002 Polacos. El nou art de Polonia, Capella de l’Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona