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CHRISTIAN TOMASZEWSKI

Christian Tomaszewski was born in 1971 in Gdansk and currently lives and works in New York. He received his MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 1995. His multimedia installations explore aspects of cinema, architecture, and the reconstruction or deconstruction of narrative. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe in such venues as SculptureCenter and The Bronx Museum, New York; the Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw; Atlas Sztuki, Lodz; Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice; the National Gallery, Prague, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl (a joint project with Ilya Kabakov); Kunstmuseum Chemnitz, Chemnitz; and Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, among others. In his most recent solo exhibition, at New York's SculptureCenter, Tomaszewski presented an installation exploring and intersecting two iconic masterpieces - David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau.

Awards include grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Chinati Foundation, the Polish Cultural Institute, and a residency at the American Academy in Rome.

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2005 Gottlieb Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2004 Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2004 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, CT, USA

2004 Grant from the Leube Baustoffe Foundation, Salzburg, Austria

2002 AIM program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, NY, USA

2002 Studio program at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany

2001 Grant from the Polish Cultural Institute, New York, NY, USA

2001 Grant from the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, USA

2001 International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, NY, USA

2001 Visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, Italy

2001 Studio program at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland

1999 Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY, USA

1998 Annual Incentive Award from the Polish and Slavic Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA

1993 Annual scholarship from the Mayor of the City of Gdynia, Poland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Morther Earth Sister Moon (with Joanna Malinowska), Performa '09 -the Third Biennial of Performance Art, Chashama, New York, NY, USA

2009 Hunting for Pheasants, Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

2009 Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

2008 Hunting for Pheasants, Michael Wiesehoefer Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2007 On Chapels, Caves, and Erotic Misery, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA

2007 Labor 1 (series: On Chapels, Caves, and Erotic Misery), Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

2006 On Chapels, Caves, and Erotic Misery, Kunstmuseum Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

2005 On Chapels, Caves, and Erotic Misery, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

2005 Light in Lynch, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004 Plague,Vol.1/December, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2002 Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt: Ilya Kabakov - Christian Tomaszewski, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany

2001 My Words Could Be Yours, But They Are Not, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy

2001 Writing a Crime, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2000 My Own Reflection Does Not Deceive Me, ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland

1995 Omnium, Jezuitow Gallery, Poznan, Poland

1994 Untitled, ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, USA

2009 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

2009 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2009 Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA

2008 Fear Minus One, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA

2008 Old News 4, Midway Contemporary Art, MN, USA

2008 Kraj: the Work of Artists of Polish Origin, Contemporary Art Center, Opole, Poland

2007 Manipulation: On Economies of Deceit, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

2006 Consumption, Kino International, Berlin, Germany

2006 POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA

2006 Polyphony of Images, De Lamar Mansion, organized by the Polish Cultural Institute, New York, NY, USA

2006 Manipulations. On Economies of Deceit, Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland

2006 Spivaks generation, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2006 Singular, S.E. Gallery, Bergen, Norway

2006 Gandy Gallery, Bratislawa, Slovakia

2006 Action & Adventure: Towards the New Aesthetics, and Realize Your Dreams: Let the system Do the Work, Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland

2006 National Museum, Poznan, Poland

2006 Sublime, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2005 Site-ations International, Dublin, Ireland

2005 Clouding Europe, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2005 Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA, USA

2005 2nd International Prague Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2004 The Palimpsest Museum, 1st Biennial of Polish Art in Lodz, Poland

2004 Lucky Draw, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA

2004 Lumo 6th International Photography Triennale, Jyvaskylan Taidemuseo Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland

2004 Simply Drawn, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004 New New Yorkers, Centre for Contemporary Art "Zamek Ujazdowski", Warsaw, Poland

2004 The Bronx Museum of the Arts- AIM 23, New York

2003 Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2003 Lucky Draw, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA

2003 The Reconstruction Biennale, Exit Art, New York, NY, USA

2003 Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA

2003 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

2001 International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, NY, USA

1995 Symposium Young Art in Poland, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland

1995 Kunst aus Polen Junge Generation, Hannover City Hall, Germany

1994 ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland

1993 State Gallery Sopot, Poland

1993 The Polish Young Painting, BWA State Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

1992 Tri-Angel, Scheersberg, Flensburg, Germany

1991 Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain

Christian Tomaszewski, Labor 1,
Image c. 2007 Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
and the artist,
Photo: Georg Tassev

Christian Tomaszewski, Labor 1,
Image c. 2007 Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg and the artist,
Photo: Georg Tassev

Christian Tomaszewski, installation at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, 2001