Zawada Michal, Landscape with volcano and palm

technique: oil on canvas, format: 40x30 cm, year of creation: 2020

Michał Zawada was born in 1985 in Cracow, Poland. In 2004-2009 he studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, and in 2005-2010 at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk. In 2010-2013, he was a student of the Community Doctoral Studies. In 2013, he received a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in the field of fine arts in the artistic discipline - fine arts, and in 2020 he received a postdoctoral degree. Since 2012, he has been an assistant in the 6th Painting Studio of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk. He was awarded a Scholarship of the Republic of Austria (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, 2014-2015). From 2016 to 2019, he served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The author of ten solo exhibitions, he has participated in dozens of group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. His works are in numerous private and public collections (including the National Museum in Gdansk and the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow).