Bartosz Kokosinski, Untitled, 2022

oil, acrylic, canvas, 36 x 21.5, 7 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: 36 x 21.5 x 7 cm/Bartosz/Kokosiński/2022/acrylic, oil on/canvas

Bartosz Kokosinski (born 1988) - painter and creator of painting and video installations. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received his diploma in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk and Prof. Witold Stelmachniewicz in 2009. He was a member of the Silnia group in Cracow. His works are in the collection of, among others, the National Museum in Gdansk, the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Krakow, the State Art Gallery in Sopot, PKO Bank Polski, the BWA Bielska Gallery in Bielsko Biala and in many private collections in Poland and abroad. Bartosz Kokosiński is a multiple recipient of scholarships from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. He triumphed four times in the ranking of young Polish artists "Kompas Młodej Sztuki". In 2019 he was on a residency as part of the Bartok Quarter project / Eleven Blokk Art Foundation in Budapest. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2022: I see it blackly, Gleria Monopol, Warsaw; 2020: Unfinished Stories, KZMRZ Foundation, Kazimierz Dolny; 2019: Bye Bye Budapest!, 1111 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; 2017: Pastel Estate, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw; Community of Density Imagery, State Art Gallery, Sopot; 2016: Moment shearing a stake, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Bank Pekao Project Room, Warsaw; Dysfunctional Matter, Knoll Gallery Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; Dysfunctional Matter, Knoll Gallery Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2014: Crack, Knoll Gallery Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; Crack, Knoll Gallery Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2013: Perverse Feces of Thought (Thomas Bernhard), Promotional Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Images Devouring Reality, Polish Losers Club, Berlin, Germany; 2012: (Un)order of things, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland; 2011: Some paintings don't want to be painted, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland; MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS: 2020: Inselkunst 2020: Bartosz Kokosinski and Philipp Eyrich, Dom Krakowski Cultural Center, Nuremberg, Germany; 2019: Knoll Gallery Budapest is 30 years old, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; My Name is Red, State Art Gallery, Sopot; Touch Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Nature in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK, Krakow, Poland; 2018: Sudden Death of the Main Character, KUBIK art space, Budapest, Hungary; 2017: What about this abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw; Kunstwerk Leben, Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen, Germany; 2016: Finally in Our Own Home. Polish Home in Transformation, 8th edition of the Warsaw Under Construction Festival, former printing house building 84/86 Nowogrodzka Street, Warsaw; Seeking Freedom. Polish Contemporary Painting, National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine; Medicine in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow; 2015: 42nd Painting Biennale "Bielska Jesień 2015", Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała; (Don't) Touch! Haptic Aspects of Polish Art after 1945, CCA Signs of the Times, Toruń; Open Collection, National Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin; Still in Motion, E.M. Gallery, Drachten, Netherlands; 2014: Self Love. That is, artists love themselves, State Art Gallery, Sopot; 2012: Curators Network, project with Ewa Juszkiewicz, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków; 2011: 10th Geppert Competition, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław; 6th Youth Triennale at the Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko; 6th Youth Biennale "Rybie Oko 6", Chamber Gallery, Słupsk; Kinderspiele, Zbiornik Kultury, Kraków.