art bio-eng
Born in Ketrzyn, Poland, 1965
MA at the University of Warsaw, The Faculty of Education, 1990
Creative Film Workshops, OKO, Warsaw
Represented by Galleries
Pontone Gallery, London, UK
Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, US
Friedrichs Pontone, New York, US
Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA (scheduled, October)
2024 Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland (scheduled, October)
2023 Into the Unknown, Pontone Gallery, London, UK
2022 Face Value, Pontone Gallery, London, UK
2022 Lovers /online/, Guy Hepner, New York, NY
2021 Transition, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 2020: Parallel Spaces, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2020 Inside & Beyond, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Recent Paintings, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Unnamed Relationships, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Balance, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2014 Lovers, Galerie Sandhofer, Salzburg, Austria
2012 Painting Circumstances, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2011 Jarek Puczel, Galeria Rynek, Olsztyn, Poland
2006 3 Seiten der Leinwand, Galerie Sandhofer, Innsbruck, Austria
2002 Puczel & Cieslak, Gallery Twenty-Four, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions / Fairs
2024 Tribeca Pool Party, Friedrichs Pontone, New York, NY
2024 Art Biennial „Personal Structures”, European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy
2024 Specific Spaces, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2024 Expo Chgo, Friedrichs Pontone/New York, Chicago, IL
2024 Art Palm Beach, Pontone Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
2023 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2023 Art Miami, Pontone Gallery, Miami, FL
2023 Warsaw Art Fair, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2023 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 Collective show, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2022, Launch (Gallery Launch), Friedrichs Pontone, New York, USA
2022 Art Miami, Pontone Gallery, Miami, FL
2022 Art duos, Puczel & Artym, Usługa Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland
2022 Collective show, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2021 Art on a Postcard, exhibition and auction for The Hepatitis C Trust, Dreweatts, London, UK
2021 8-Bridges /online fair/, Maybaum Gallery
2021 Collective show, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2020 Until We Meet Again /online exhibition/, treat gallery, New York, NY
2020 Curiosity /online exhibition/, 44AD artspace, Bath, United Kingdom
2020 Collective show, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2020 Buinho Creative Hub, Messejana, Portugal – Art Residency (March 2020)
2020 Untitled, Art – Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2019 Delusions, Old Town Hall Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland
2019 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019 30th anniversary of the gallery, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2019 Collective show, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2019 Art Market, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 FRESH! Order and Chaos: the World of the Enlightened?, JanKossen Contemporary, New York, NY
2018 Winter Exhibition: Post-War Meets Today, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2018 Collective show, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Art Miami, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 Rarity Summer Contemporary, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2017 This is not my image, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Art Wynwood, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2016 Collective show, Galeria de Arte AFK, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 CONTEXT, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2016 Trzechswiat, Galeria Scena X, Olsztyn, Poland
2016 SCOPE Basel, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Art Wynwood, Miami, FL
2015 Galeria Scena X, Olsztyn, Poland
2015 Art Wynwood, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2015 Warsaw Art Fair, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2014 Collective show, Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris, France
2014 CONTEXT, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Warsaw Art Fair, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2014 Devenir gris, Galerie 22RUEMULLER, Paris Montmartre, France
2014 The Art Hunter, Sydney, Australia
2013 AQUA – Basel Miami, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2013 SCOPE Miami Beach, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2013 Warsaw Art Fair, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2013 SCOPE Basel, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2013 Artists of the gallery, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2013 SCOPE NYC, Robert Fontaine Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Art Wynwood, Miami, FL
2012 Warsaw Art Fair, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2012 SCOPE Miami Beach, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 Collective show, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 Sport artbox, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2011 Nowy Dom Jablkowskich, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2011 Collective show, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2010 SCOPE Miami, Myartspace – digital presentation, Miami, FL
2010 Wpolczesna weduta, Galeria Rynek, Olsztyn, Poland
2009 Art Innsbruck, Galerie Sandhofer, Innsbruck, Austria
2009 Lubelska Noc Kultury, Galeria ATU, Lublin, Poland
2003 Galeria Wozownia, V Biennale of the Small Painting Forms, Torun, Poland
2003 ProGram 2003, Galeria Sienna 57, Warsaw, Poland
2000/2001 Et voila la Pologne, Bruxelles & Liege, Luxembourg – Belgium, Luxembourg
Art Residencies
2020 (March) Buinho Creative Hub, Messejana, Portugal
Awards
2020 Badge of Merit for Polish Culture, Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
2024
Charlotte Gneuß „I Confidenti”, work Gdynia on the book cover, Iperborea, Milano, Italy
Michael Kumpfmüller „Wir Gespenster” work Lovers (10) on the book cover, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co. KG, Köln, Germany
Mauro Grimoldi „Dieci lezioni sul male. I crimini degli adolescenti” work Long Journey on the book cover, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, Italy
2023
Maggie O’Farrell „The Distance Between Us ”, work Couple at the seaside on the book cover, Penguin Random House, Inc., New York, US
Maggie O’Farrell „The Distance Between Us ”, work Couple at the seaside on the book cover, Penguin Random House, Toronto, Canada
Gohar Homayounpour „Blues a Teheran. La psicanalisi e il lutto”, work Head on the book cover, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, Italy
Lella Ravasi Bellocchio „I confini del dolore. È possibile arginare la sofferenza psichica?”, work Girl on the Swing on the book cover, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, Italy
„The Beautiful Truth”, work Caspar’s Daughter on the cover of magazine and work Lake inside, The Beautiful Truth Ltd., London, UK
Zeruya Shalev „Stupeur”, work Calling on the book cover, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, France
Antonio Fontana „Una mujer furiosa”, work Lovers (Split Up) on the book cover, Ediciones Siruela, Madrid, Spain
2022
Massimiliano Virgilio „Il tempo delle stelle”, work Lovers (22) on the book cover, Rizzoli Libri, Milan, Italy
Linda Boström Knausgard „Oktoberkind”, work Caspar’s Daughter on the book cover, Schöffling & Co. Verlagsbuchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Lella Ravasi Bellocchio „La fiaba siamo noi. Storie che ci possono salvare” , work Romantic (2) on the book cover, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, Italy
Katarzyna Gora „Predicates of Gratification”, work Cień on the book cover, Peter Lang GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Galit Atlas „L’eredità emotiva”, work Calling on the book cover, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, Italy
2021
Violaine Huisman „Rose Désert” , work Beloved on the book cover, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, France
JI Zhong Xian „Words Like Flowers”, work Lover 6 on the book cover, Nanjing University Press, Nanjing, China
Art on a Postcard, Summer auction for The Hepatitis C Trust (3 works, acrylic on paper, 15×10 cm), Dreweatts, London, UK
ArtHall project – mobile application, use of 7 images of works: On the shore, Shadow, Projection 4, Lovers 3, Entangled, Couple, Beloved
2020
Dan Franck „La séparation”, work Lovers /Split Up/ on the book cover, Éditions Points, Paris, France
„Little Fish” movie, work Lovers 7 on the movie poster, commissioned painting, Black Bear Pictures, Automatik Entertainment, Canada/USA
Marsha Linehan „Una vita degna di essere vissuta”, work Running Girl on the book cover, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, Italy
Laia Fàbregas „No escriuré la teva història”, work Evening in Messejana on the book cover, Editorial Empúries, Barcelona, Spain
Karine Tuils „Menschliche Dinge”, work Lovers (Split up) on the book cover, Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Josan Hatero „La intimidad de los viajeros”, work Lovers 7 on the book cover, Editorial Planeta, Barcelona, Spain
Georgui Gospodinov „Tous nos corps”, work Lovers 2 on the book cover, Editions Intervalles, Paris, France
Fabio Bonifacci „Il gioco della verità”, work Jump on the book cover, RCS MediaGroup, Milan, Italy
Rachel Cusk „Il Lavoro Di Una Vita”, work Caspar’s Daughter on the book cover, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Turin, Italy
Irvin D. Yalom „Guarire d’amore. Storie di psicoterapia”, work Lovers 1 on the book cover, Raffaello Cortina Editore , Milan, Italy
Lavinia Alberti „Incoerenze”, work Lovers 2 on the book cover, Editore Il Convivio, Italy
2019
„Ray Donovan” television series (season 7, ep. 1-2), work The lost way in the movie set, Showtime Network, New York, NY
Zeruya Shalev „Pain”, work Lovers 3 on the book cover, Other Press, New York, NY
„Love I’ve known because of you”, work Lovers 5 on the book cover, Hankyoreh Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea
Angelo Ferracuti „La metà del cielo”, work Untitled on the book cover, Mondadori Libri , Milan, Italy
„MADAME”magazine (July 2019) , work Girl on a swing in the article, Bauer Style & Luxury KG, Munich, Germany
Lena Andersson „Hechos poco fieles”, work Lovers 3 on the book cover, Alfaguara (Penguin Random House), Barcelona, Spain
„Little Fish” movie, work Couple (2) in the movie set, Tango Entertaiment and Black Bear Pictures, Canada/USA
Ian McEwan „Maschinen wie ich”, work Meeting on the book cover, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland
Organizm „Czy ty tez tak masz”, work Unnamed Woman on the CD album cover, Thin man records, Poland
prof. Alejandro Juárez Pineda „Cómo Combinar el amor pareja y familiar con tu empresa?”, works: Invisible Man, Exit 2, Uncertainty, Romantic, Romantic (3), On the shore, „Capitel” magazine, Humanitas University in Mexico
2018
Apple Music project „Latin: Enfermo De Amor” – Lovers (special version), commissioned painting
Bernard MacLaverty „Midwinter Break”, work Couple on the book cover, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
Zeruya Shalev „Douleur”, work Lovers 3 on the book cover, Editions Gallimard, Paris, France
Jennifer Kitses „Ein tag, eine nacht”, work Invisible man on the book cover, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich, Germany
Carlo Cassola „L’uomo e il cane”, „Un cuore arido”, works Cruise and The dog on the book covers, Mondadori Libri Spa, Milan, Italy
Rachel Cusk „Resoconto”, „Passaggio”, „Omaggio”, works Beloved, Melancholia, Redhead on the book covers,
Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino, Italy
Geir Gulliksen „The Story of a Marriage”, work Beloved on the book cover, Penguin Random House, New York, NY
Julia Jessen „Architektur des Knotens”, work Para (2) on the book cover, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, München, Germany
2017
Jens Jessen „Wir haben uns verwählt”, work Couple in the article, Die Zeit, Germany
Chiara Gamberale „La zona cieca”, work Dream on the book cover, G. Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy
Nina Raine „Consent”, work Lovers 6 as a campaign artwork for a play, National Theatre London, UK
Carlo Cassola „Il taglio del bosco”, work On an alien planet on the book cover, Mondadori, Milan, Itlay
Carlo Cassola „Fausto e Anna”, work Girl on a seesaw on the book cover, Mondadori, Milan, Italy
Michel Faber „Undying – a love story”, work In the sunlight on the book cover, La nave di Teseo, Milan, Italy
Rosi Golan „OMG”, work Lovers 3 on the cover of the music record single, NY
Jenny Diski „The Vanishing Princess”, work Lovers 2 on the book cover, Ecco Books (HarperCollins), New York, NY
Cezary Żechowski „War with the Cuckoo”, Illustrations for the book, Convivo, Warsaw, Poland
Antonio J. Rodriguez „Vidas perfectas”, work Couple 2 on the book cover, Penguin Random House, Barcelona, Spain
Katarzyna Mol „Now”, work Girl on a seesaw on the book cover, Tadeusz Serocki, Pelplin, Poland
Franz Werfel „Little Loves”, work Couple on the book cover, Ugo Guanda Editore, Milan, Italy
Carlo Cassola „A relationship”, work Couple 2 on the book cover, Mondadori, Milan, Italy
Carlo Cassola „Fear and Sadness”, work Mother on the book cover, Mondadori, Milan, Italy
2016
„Slice” magazine, work Beloved in the issue Fall/Winter’16, New York, NY
„Dolce vita” television theatre TVP, work Projection 1 on the stage design, Warsaw, Poland
Zoey Leigh Peterson „Next year, for sure”, work Unnamed affection on the book cover, Scribner, USA
Zoey Leigh Peterson „Next year, for sure”, work Unnamed affection on the book cover, Doubleday, Canada
Naiara Magalhaes „Mais tesão, por favor”, works Lovers 3 and Lovers 1 in the article, Claudia, Brazil
2015
Arjun Basu „Attends-Moi”, work Lovers 1 on the book cover, Marchand de feuilles Montréal, Canada
Anna Matysiak „Czułość liter”, work – 20 C on the cover and endpaper of the book, Miniatura, Krakow
2014
The Jezabels „Brink”, 8 works on the CD album cover / vinyl album, Australia
43 Festival du Nouveau Cinema, work Lovers 1 – main image promoting Festival, Montréal, Canada
2013
Iris Leu „Soft Focus”, work Lovers 1 on the CD album cover, USA-TX
2012
Arezu Weitholz „Wenn die Nacht am stillsten ist”, work Lovers 2 on the book cover, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich, Germany
Ilaria Bernardini „Domenica”, work Lovers 2 on the book cover, Narratori Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS
2021
„Transition – recent paintings by Jarek Puczel”, exhibition brochure, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020
Rohini Kejriwal, „Interview: Jarek Puczel”, The Alipore Post, Bangalore, India, thealiporepost.com
„Introducing Jarek Puczel”, Guy Hepner Gallery, New York, USA, guyhepner.com
2019
Justyna Artym „Jarek Puczel”, catalog of works (english version), CONVIVO, Warsaw, Poland
Μαρία Πανούτσου, Ο Αγιότατος Έρως «Η Οφηλία δεν μένει πια εδώ» (visual part of the article), Greece, ologramma.art
Monika Szczygło „The creative world of Jarek Puczel”, interview, Radio Olsztyn, Poland
2018
Marek Baranski „Full-time painter”, interview, Gazeta Olsztynska, Poland
2017
Andrea Toro „Jarek Puczel. Covered Lovers”, interview, METAL Magazine, Barcelona, Spain
Eglė Petreikienė „Jarek Puczel”, NEMUNAS magazine, Kaunas, Lithuania
Dariusz Szulc „Relationships – delicate connections in Jarek Puczel’s painting”, article and interview, Artventure.pl
2016
Casey Webb „Interview with painter, Jarek Puczel”, jungkatz.com
Ewelina Zdancewicz „Jaroslaw Puczel. Conversation”, Gazeta Olsztynska, Poland
2015
Siegrid Leitner „Jarek Puczel. Die Magie eines einzigen Augenblicks”, Palette & Zeichenstift, Koblenz, Germany
Anna Matysiak „Jarek Puczel”, booklet, Convivo Publishing House, Warsaw, Poland
Curate Magazine „The portrait issue”, curatemagazine.com
2014
„Devenir Gris” – numéro 3, Les éditions de L’Incident, Paris, France
„Giovani Garofalo „Materia e Spirito – gli amanti di Jarek Puczel”, artwort.com
Josune Imizcoz „La nación de los amantes sin rostro”, playgroundmag.net
2013
Dontpostme, winter issue „Interview with Jarek Puczel”, issuu publishing house, Saint-Petersbourg, Russia
Hannah Edwards „Jarek Puczel”, ignant.de
Beata Szymanska „Jaroslaw Puczel – painter” (video), GO TV, Poland
Ewa Mazgal „Jaroslaw Puczel”, Gazeta Olsztynska, Poland
Larissa Erin Greer „Jarek Puczel Qutlines The Everyday”, beautifuldecay.com
Monika Szczyglo „Interview with Jaroslaw Puczel. Odbiorca sztuki jest jej tworca”, Radio Olsztyn, Poland
2012
Patrycja Jastrzebska „Jaroslaw Puczel”, VariArt, WBP Olsztyn, Poland
Patrycja Jastrzebska „Jaroslaw Puczel. Painting circumstances” Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
Interview with E. Kochanek-Van Dijk about Jarek Puczel exhibition in Milano Gallery, Qadrans Qltury, TVP Warsaw, Poland