Łukasz HUCULAK (b. 1977), Hypnosis, 2023

tempera on paper mounted on board, 69.2 x 41.5 cm, signed lower right: 23 / Huculak

Born in 1977. Painter, curator, and author of texts on contemporary and historical art. He moves freely across epochal boundaries. At times, his paintings resemble relics of ancient cultures, archaeological finds, or museum artifacts. His current interests include curiosities, the kunstkammer, roots, and the cosmos.

He is a member of the Warsaw Association of Art Historians, the Lower Silesian Zachęta Society for Fine Arts, the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists, and the editorial board of the Silesian Art Yearbooks. He contributes to “Powidoki,” the art and academic journal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.

He has completed artist residencies in Knoxville, Paris, Palermo, Munich, Schloss Königshein in Saxony, Kunststation Kleinsassen near Fulda, and in Java.

As a professor at the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, he heads the painting studio.

His works can be found in private collections as well as at PKO BP Bank, the National Museum in Gdańsk, the National Museum in Wrocław, the Wrocław City Museum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Görlitz, the Wrocław Museum of Contemporary Art, the Luciano Benetton Collection, and the Museo regionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palermo.

Currently, his works can be viewed at a solo exhibition at the Residenzschloss in Dresden, as well as at the National Museum in Gdańsk, the NFM in Wrocław, and the Center for Nature Education at Jagiellonian University.

He has received fellowships from the Ministry of Culture, the Bavarian State Government, and non-governmental organizations. He is a laureate of the Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Szczecin Painting Festival, and the Bielsko Jesień Painting Festival.