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Born 1952 in Lodz, Poland
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY |
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| Education |
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| 1996 | MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 1994 | BA, SUNY Empire State College, NY |
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| Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2011 | Nine Gates, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2010 | At the Still Point, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | Flaherty NYC, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
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| 2006 | Paweł Wojtasik, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2004 | Paweł Wojtasik, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
| 2003 | Paweł Wojtasik, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT |
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| Group Exhibitions |
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| 2011 | Prospect.2 Biennial, New Orleans, LA |
| 2010 | Inside/Out, curated by Micaela Giovanotti, Cuchifritos Gallery/Project Space, New York, NY
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| 2009 | These Days: Elegies for Modern Times, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art), North Adams, MA
Liquid, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT |
| 2008 | Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Sonic Self, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
KRAJ, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland |
| 2007 | :MINUS, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
50,000 Beds, Artspace, New Haven, CT; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Blood Meridian, curated by David Hunt, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
Pie in the Face, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Coercive Atmospherics, curated by David Hunt, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Why Look at Animals?, Artspace, New Haven, CT
It Isn't Funny Anymore, Project 1981, Long Island City, NY
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| 2006 | Out of True, curated by M. Giovanotti & J. Korotkin, Design District, Miami, FL
POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Hypervision, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY
The Love Show, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
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| 2005 | Greater New York 2005, MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
The New New York Video, Sous-Sol Gallery, Paris, France
Heat, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
Terra Infirma, curated by Berta Sichel, Proyecto Cultural de Castellon, Valencia, Spain
From the Root to the Fruit, curated by David Hunt, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
In the Round, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Kunstencentrum Netwerk Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
F-18 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
and Death, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
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| 2004 | No Return, Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The God Show, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT |
| 2003 | The Lightshow, Clocktower Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Cosmorama, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
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| 2002 | National Museum, Minsk, Belarus
8 Reflections on Time, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Wyjscie Ewakuacyjne Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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| 1999 | Artists Space, New York, NY |
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| Film Festivals and Screenings |
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| 2011 | 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Full Exposure, International House, Philadelphia, PA
Next Atlantis, music performed by Cassatt Quartet, Symphony Space, New York, NY
Next Atlantis, music performed by New World Symphony, New World Center, Miami, FL
Ars Independent International Film Festival in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Outpost, Brooklyn, NY
Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong
Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
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| 2010 | New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant-garde, New York, NY
Kunstfilmtag 2010, UN..SHARPNESS OF THE DOCUMENTARY, Dusseldorf, Germany
Next Atlantis, music performed by Kronos Quartet, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
Dallas Video Fest, Dallas, Texas
Hurricane Season, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
Streamfest Film Festival, Salento, Italy
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Next Atlantis, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Next Atlantis, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA
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| 2009 | Cine Trans Europe, Paris, France
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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| 2008 | Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
54th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
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| 2007 | SCANNERS Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Cine y Casi Cine, The Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Video Dumbo, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Reel NY, PBS/Thirteen, Public TV, New York Metro Area
Gray’s Reef Film Festival, Savannah, GA
Inaugural Screenings, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH
Collectives of Irrepressible Cinema(s), Orchard Gallery, New York, NY
IMAGES Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 2006 | Prevailing Climate, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Voom HD Lab Presents, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
ANTIMATTER Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Borderline Video Art Festival, Platform China Gallery, Beijing, China
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Maui Film Festival, Maui, HI
Digital Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Rotterdam International Film Festival: Video Music 2: Electric Current, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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| 2004 | Cine y Casi Cine, The Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary |
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| Fellowships, Grants and Residencies |
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| 2012 | Fullbright Scholar Award - India |
| 2011 | Second Prize, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Grand Prize, Short Film Competition, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong |
| 2010 | Individual Artist Grant, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), NY |
| 2009 | Seminar Artist, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Equipment Grant, Experimental Media and Performance Art Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY |
| 2007 | Look and Listen, Panelist, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Individual Artist Grant (Film & Video), New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), NY
Yaddo, Janet Sloane endowed residency (Film), Saratoga Springs, NY
Grant, VOOM HD Lab, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Artist-in-Residence, LAB HD, New York, NY
Yaddo, Endowed Residency (Film), Newman's Own, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
| 2004 | Artist-in-Residence, Outpost, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1999 | Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA |
| 1996 | Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY |
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| Selected Recent Bibliography |
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| 2011 | Rawls, Alex. "Prospect.2: Leveling Out." Off Beat: Louisiana Music and Culture. October 24, 2011.
Everleth, Mike. "2011 Onion City Experimental Film And Video Festival: Award Winners." Bad Lit The Journal of Underground Film, June 28, 2011.
Ars Independent International Film Festival in Katowice, Katowice, Poland, festival catalogue, 2011.
Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, festival catalogue, 2011.
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| 2010 | Doran, Anne. "Inside/Out." Time Out New York, June 10, 2010.
Gopnik, Blake. "The Gallery Scene on Manhattan's Lower East Side." The Washington Post, May 23, 2010.
Mitchell, John. "At MoCA, Yesterday's is Coming Back Tomorrow." North Adams Transcript, April 10, 2009.
Klopfelstein, Karley. "Pawel Wojtasik at Smack Mellon." Artcritical.com, April 2010.
Shuster, Robert. "Best in Show…Pawel Wojtasik’s At the Still Point." The Village Voice, March 30, 2010.
Smith, Steve. "American Composers Orchestra." The New York Times, February 1, 2010.
Stearns, David Patrick. "New Composers at Annenberg." The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 2, 2010. |
| 2009 | Smee, Sebastian. "Mournful Reflections." The Boston Globe, April 18, 2009. |
| 2008 | Like a Shipwreck We Die Going into Ourselves, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, exhibition catalogue, Saveur Edition, 2008
POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, exhibition catalogue, 2008.
Schuster, Robert. "Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves." The Village Voice Fall Guide 2008, September 3, 2008. |
| 2007 | Yablonsky, Linda. "Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars." The New York Times, July 8, 2007.
50,000 Beds. Artspace, New Haven, CT; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Exhibition catalogue, 2007.
Wheelock, David. "Animals Exhibit Startles, Subverts." Yale Daily News, February 13, 2007.
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| 2006 | Genocchio, Benjamin. "International Perspectives on Being Polish." The New York Times, December 3, 2006.
Killackey, Fiona. "Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves." Flux Magazine, September 2006.
Barliant, Claire. "The Aquarium." Artforum, May 2006.
Yassin, Aaron. "Paradox of Perception: The Video Work of Pawel Wojtasik." New York Arts Magazine, May 2006.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Love, Without Make-up." The New York Times, April 9, 2006.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "The Mind’s Eye." The New York Times, March 19, 2006. |
| 2005 | Kessler, Sarah. "Pawel Wojtasik." Greater New York, MoMA PS1, exhibition catalog, 2005.
Sichel, Berta. "Terra Infirma," Proyecto Cultural de Castellon, Valencia, Spain, exhibition catalog, 2005.
El Pais, Madrid, Spain, July 24, 2005.
Messen, Vincent. "A Short History of Decay." F-18, HISK, Belgium, 2005.
Sozanski, Edward J. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 2005.
Gibson, Todd. "Best of New York 2004." From The Floor, 2005. |
| 2004 | Cotter, Holland. "No Return." The New York Times, October 1, 2004.
"No Return." The New Yorker, October 18, 2004
Balkon Magazine, Budapest, Hungary, p. 43, August 2004.
Cine y Casi Cine, The Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, exhibition catalogue, 2004. |
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| DVD Collection |
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| 2005 | Electric Current 2, DVD published by CollectiveEye. Essay by Aaron Yassin, 2005. |
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