Education

2018 MA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2016 Masters in Miroslaw Balka Studio of Spatial Activities, Academy of Art, Warsaw
2013 Undergraduate degree in Photography, University of Arts in Poznan, Poland
2008 Masters in Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

 

For an up to date CV including exhibitions, please visit the artist's website

Grzegorz Stefański (b. 1983) lives and works in London and Warsaw. He mainly works with time-based media and is primarily concerned with identity and embodiment. A graduate of Philosophy from Jagiellonian University and Photography at the University of Arts in Poznań. In 2016, he completed his master’s degree at Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the same year, he received the Felix Slade Award to continue his education at Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 2017, he won the Ivan Juritz Prize in London and won the Grand Prix at the 9th Biennale of Young Art "Rybie Oko" in Ustka. He made his debut in 2010 with a solo exhibition at the Goldex-Poldex Cooperative in Kraków. Since then, the works were presented, among others, in the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2018), during Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), at the Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome (2014), and at the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 in New York (2010). He has cooperated with, amongst others, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Królikarnia/National Museum in Warsaw, and Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków. 

 

 

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Artist website: www.grzegorzstefanski.com

Instagram: @grzegorz__stefanski

Gallery representation: L'étrangère, London

Grzegorz Stefański in conversation with Joseph Constable, Assistant Curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London