Sławomir Marzec

Professor of art. Born in 1962. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (degree earned in the studios of S. Gierowski and R. Winiarski) and the Freie Kunst Akademie Düsseldorf (Meisterschule Diploma in the studio of Prof. G. Uecker). He currently heads the Painting Studio at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He works in painting, drawing, installation, manipulated photography, performance, and film. 

He has held over a hundred solo exhibitions (including at the National Museum in Lublin, the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, the MCSW Elektrownia in Radom, the Center for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, IPS Municipal Gallery in Łódź, CSW in Warsaw, and the Museum in Kazimierz Dolny) and several hundred group exhibitions (including SCP in New York, Zachęta in Warsaw, and Pardo Gallery in New York).

He has published over 200 texts at the intersection of art theory and criticism in leading Polish art magazines, as well as in international publications (he was a long-time reviewer for the New York-based NYArts and the London-based Contemporary). He has also published five books at the intersection of art theory and criticism (including Art, or Everything. The Landscape After Postmodernism, Polish Art 1993–2014: Arthome versus Artworld, Superstitions of Contemporary Art, On Art on the Titanic: Conversations with Sławomir Marzec—in the form of a dialogue with Prof. I. Lorenc). Author of numerous polemics advocating for the (im)possible autonomy of art. Co-founder of the Forum of New Art Autonomies (2014–18) and the OBRRAZ group (since 2023). Deputy editor of the quarterly *Aspiracje* (2019–2021). He has received multiple fellowships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (MKiDN), as well as grants from Art Omi (USA), the Jurzykowski Foundation (USA), and Socrates Sculpture Park (USA).

His works are included in the collections of the National Museum in Lublin, the National Museum in Szczecin, the National Museum in Gdańsk, the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the Museum of Modern Art in Hünfeld, the Municipal Gallery in Łódź, the Center for Contemporary Art “Elektrownia” in Radom, the Museum in Chełm, and others.

In 2023, he received the Gloria Artis award.