Oskar GORZKIEWICZ (b. 1988), Block II, 2026

etching, paper, composition: 43x33 cm, paper: 70x50 cm, 2/10, signed lower right: Oskar Gorzkiewicz 2026

Born in 1988 in Koluszki. Graduate of the Tadeusz Makowski School of Fine Arts in Łódź. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design at the Institute of Textile Architecture, majoring in Design, at the Lodz University of Technology. Graduate of the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting, majoring in Graphic Arts. He received his diploma in 2014 from the Intaglio Printing Techniques Studio led by Prof. Krzysztof Wawrzyniak. From 2012 to 2013, he participated in the International Graphic Arts Symposia at the KAUS International Center for Artistic Graphics in Urbino, Italy. In 2013, he completed an artist residency at the GEDOK Association in Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating, from 2014 to 2015, he served as an assistant in the Studio of Foundations of Printmaking at the Department of Printmaking and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Subsequently, from 2015 to 2016, he served as an assistant in the Applied Drawing Studio at the Faculty of Design and Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. He served as an assistant eight times during the PATA International Summer Courses in Artistic Printmaking, held from 2014 to 2019 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In 2019, he earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts through the Community-Based Doctoral Studies program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. He currently serves as an assistant in the Intaglio Printing Techniques Studio led by Dr. Alicja Habisiak-Matczak, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions of graphic art in Brazil, China, France, Spain, Japan, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, the U.S., and Italy. He has held seven solo exhibitions in Poland and Germany. He has won numerous awards in printmaking competitions. Among other honors, he won second prize at the 44th Carmen Arozena International Competition in 2016 in Madrid, Spain, and received an honorable mention from the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation in 2017 in Warsaw, Poland.

List of Artistic Works

Solo Exhibitions:

2020 – “Oskar Gorzkiewicz – Prints,” Amcor Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2019 – “Oskar Gorzkiewicz – A Collection of Prints Inspired by Urban Architecture. An Original Multi-Matrice Printing Method Using Intaglio Techniques,” OdNowa Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland
2016 – “Oskar Gorzkiewicz – Prints,” Pod Plafonem Gallery, Lower Silesian Public Library, Wrocław, Poland
2016 – “Cityscapes,” Print Gallery of the Art Library, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland
2016 – “Multis Cruris” (with Jonasz Koperkiewicz and Ewa Mielczarek), Gallery 526, Poleski Art Center, Łódź, Poland
2016 – “Oskar Gorzkiewicz – Prints,” Gallery 144, Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland
2015 – “My Visions of the City II,” Art Market Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2015 – “Vermis” (with Jonasz Koperkiewicz and Ewa Mielczarek), Gallery 526, Poleski Art Center, Łódź, Poland
2014 – “My Visions of the City,” Museum of the City of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
2013 – “Point of View” print exhibition, Oskar Gorzkiewicz and Anja Klafki, Rathaus, Stuttgart, Germany, and at Gallery 87, Łódź, Poland
2013 – Print exhibition at the Kit Karson Gallery, Hammerfest, Norway

Selected group exhibitions:
2020 – “Flaneurs and Dandys Suspended in a Smartphone: Chiado, Carmo, and Arts in the Public Sphere,” Władysław Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland; Museo Arqueológico do Carmo, Lisbon, Portugal; Casa de Portugal, Paris, France
2019 – “Graphic Art from the Institute of Artistic Graphics in Łódź,” Gallery of the Department of Graphic Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
2019 – “Polish Printmaking and Textile Art – Works from the Strzemin’ski Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź,” 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 Łódź, Łódź, Poland
2019 – “From Łódź to Gdańsk – Exhibition of Faculty Members from the Department of Artistic Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź,” Great Armory Hall, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
2019 – “Lodz Graphics on a Silk Road,” China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China
2018 – “Unusual Prints,” Biblio-Art Gallery, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
2018 – “50th Yokosuka Peace Exhibition of Art,” Yokosuka City Gallery, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2018 – “Interlacing, The Drawers,” Headbones Gallery, Vernon, Canada
2018 – “Flash Drawing Tour 2018,” “Pomie?dzy” Student Printmaking Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Łódź, Poland
2018 – “Carmo, Chiado, and the Heart of Darkness,” Władysław Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland;
Acua Hall, Centro de Iniciativas Culturales, Cuenca, Spain; Vieire da Silva Hall, Casa de Portugal, Paris, France; Carmo Archaeological Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 – “International Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition Forum 2018,” Empreinte a l’atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2018 – “PATA – Printmaking and Textile Art,” Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Łódź, Poland

2018 – “Be?karty Strzemin´skiego,” Kobro Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Łódź, Poland

Awards:
2017 – Honorable Mention at the 25th Edition of the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation Award – Grafika 2017, Warsaw, Poland
2016 – Second Prize at “The International Print Award Carmen Arozena 2016,” Madrid, Spain
2015 – nomination in the Polish edition of the “Prix Canson 2016,” Kraków, Poland
2015 – nomination at the 9th Student Print Biennial, Poznań, Poland
2015 – Prize in kind from “Gart – Supplies for Visual Artists,” Łódź, Poland
2014 – Honorable Mention in the Competition for the Best Thesis Works by Students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź – PRIME TIME 2014
2014 – Award from the KAUS Urbino International Center for Artistic Graphics at the 31st edition of the Wł. Strzeminski Competition – Fine Arts
2013 – First Prize in the Graphic Art Competition themed around the Higher Theological Seminary in Łódź
2013 – Nomination for an award in the Fine Arts competition, 30th edition of the Wł. Strzeminski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź
2013 – Award from the Museum of the City of Łódź as part of the 30th edition of the Wł. Strzeminski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź
2013 – Award from Gallery 526 as part of the 30th edition of the Wł. Strzeminski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź
2013 – Culture and Business Foundation Award as part of the 30th edition of the Wł. Strzeminski Competition, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź