Kacper BOŻEK (b. 1974), Totentanz, 2021

mixed media (etching, mezzotint), paper, composition: 49.5 x 33 cm, sheet: 63.5 x 48.5 cm, 14/100, signed lower right: Kacper Bożek

He was born in 1974 in Kraków. He is a graduate of the Antoni Kenar High School of Fine Arts in Zakopane and the Department of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He completed his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Stanisław Wejman, and since 2011 has been working as an assistant in the Copperplate Engraving Studio at his alma mater. In November 2013, he earned his Ph.D. for a series of prints dedicated to *The Saragossa Manuscript* and the life of Jan Potocki. He practices printmaking and drawing. He has held over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in dozens of group exhibitions. He is a laureate of Polish and international competitions. Among other accolades, he won second prize at the Premio Leonardo Sciascia Amateur d’estampes in 2013, first prize in the “Grafiteka” competition in 2019, second prize at the 11th International Print Triennial in Kochi in 2020, and first prize at the 7th Print Biennial in Valladolid, Spain.

Solo exhibitions:

1998 – Gołogórski Gallery, Kraków

1998 – Na prowincji Gallery, Lublin

2003 – Contemporary Art Gallery, Myślenice

2003 – Historical Museum of the City of Kraków

2004 – Gallery of the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków

2004 – Nautilus Gallery, Kraków

2004 – Czas Gallery, Będzin

2007 – “The Master and Margarita,” Nautilus Gallery, Kraków

2010 – Vistula River Museum, Kazimierz Dolny

2010 – Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz

2010 – Nautilus Gallery, Kraków

2011 – Kreski Gallery, Płock

2011 – “Graphic Artist from Kraków,” City Library Gallery, Alsdorf, Germany

2013 – “An Etched Reflection of the World,” Pracownia, Kraków

2013 – “The Saragossa Manuscript,” Nautilus Gallery, Kraków

2014 – Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy

2014 – Fondazione Il Bisonte, Florence, Italy

2014 – Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy

2014 – M Odwach Gallery, Wrocław

2014 – Nowy Sącz Small Gallery

2015 – Pragaleria, Warsaw

2016 – “An Etched Reflection of the World,” Katowice History Museum, Paweł Steller’s Printmaking Department

2016 – Galeria Humberta 3, Exhibition of Instructors from the Copperplate Engraving Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Kraków

2016 – Graphic Arts Workshop, Vauxhall Gallery, Krzeszowice

2017 – Nautilus Gallery, Kraków

2017 – Pragaleria, Warsaw

2017 – M Gallery, Wrocław

2018 – Engram Gallery in Katowice

2018 – Pragaleria, Warsaw

2019 – National Museum, Pozarevac, Serbia

2021 – Lufcik Gallery, ZPAP Warsaw

2021 – Two of Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Group Exhibitions and Competitions:

1998 – “Interprint,” an international exhibition of student printmaking, presented in Poland, Ireland, the Netherlands, the U.S., and the U.K.

1999 – 1st International Drawing Competition, Wrocław

2000 – Galerie Internationale, Aiseau, Belgium

2000 – Galerie Kunen, Dulmen, Germany

2000 – “Dyplom 2000,” Palace of Art, Kraków

2001 – “Mondo Cane,” Jan Fejkiel Gallery, Kraków

2002 – Salon d’Estampa, Madrid, Spain

2002 – “Kunst aus Krakau,” Kunen Gallery, Dulmen, Germany

2003 – Grand Prix of Young Polish Printmaking, Kraków–Moscow

2004 – “Don Quixote: A Contemporary Interpretation,” Dominik Rostworowski Gallery, Kraków

2005 – “Don Quixote,” National Museum, Szołayski House, Kraków, Kaunas, Lithuania

2006 – “Prints from the Collection of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, 1946–2006,” Czartoryski Museum, Kraków

2011 – “Eastern European Printmakers Today,” Muskat Studios Gallery, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville (USA), and Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham (USA)

2012 – “Diversity in Unity: Intaglio Techniques in Poland after 1900.” Exhibition organized on the occasion of the International Print Triennial in Kraków. Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz

2012 – 2nd International Printmaking Symposium, Bentlage Rheine, Germany

2012–2013 – Exhibition at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union in Brussels

2012 – “Traveling,” Art Meeting Tomaszowice

2012–2013 – “Visible / Invisible. Print of the 21st Century,” Jan Fejkiel Gallery Collection, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, USA

2013 – 1st International Exhibition of Printmaking “In Search of the Lost Paradise,” Metropolitan Curia of Granada, Spain

2015 – International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China

2015 – Kaunas International Print Biennial

2015 – “Printmaking and Workshop,” Kraków, Exhibition accompanying the MTG

2015 – “Printmaking from Humbert Street,” Lviv, Ukraine

2016 – “Studio 3/5,” Akademia Gallery in Bronowice, Studio

2016 – Exhibition of the Department of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków at the University of Arts Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2018 – 9th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal

2018 – 6th International Etching Biennial, Spain

2019 – 7th Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China

2019 – “Reality and Her Fantasies: Contemporary Polish Printmakers,” Reykjanes Art Museum/Jan Fejkiel Gallery, Iceland

2019 – 2nd International Print Biennale, Yerevan, Armenia

2019 – “Exchange Exhibition of Polish Printmaking,” CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

2019 – Krakow Art Salon

2020 – 7th Aquaferte International Print Biennial, Spain

2020 – 11th Kochi International Triennial, Japan

2022 – “Mysterious Strangers, Crazy Friends, Suspicious Affection,” Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Presentation of works by artists associated with the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Kraków

2022 – 3rd Kraków Artistic Encounters, “Territories,” Printmaking Workshop, Pryzmat Gallery.

Awards:

1999 – D’Ann & Gus Mazzocca Award for Best Student Work

1999 – Małgorzata and Andrzej Zając Award for the Best Student Work

2000 – Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Award for a thesis project

2000 – Graphic Art of the Year (3rd prize for the work titled “The Heavily Armored Idol”)

2001 – First Prize in the ex-libris competition organized by the Raczyński Library in Poznań

2002 – Graphic Art of the Year, Grand Prix for “Milites Templi”

2003 – Creative Scholarship from the City of Kraków

2008 – Special Award in the ZPAP “Print of the Month” competition

2013 – Premio Leonardo Sciascia amateur d’estampes 7th Edition, Second Prize

2013 – Curator of the “Variografia” exhibition, Palace of Art, Kraków

Works in the collections of:

– Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków

– National Library in Warsaw

– Raczyński Library in Poznań

– Historical Museum of the City of Kraków

– the Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz

– Kraków Print Triennial

– Salon d’Estampa, Madrid (Spain)

– Il Bisonte Foundation (Italy)

– EU Delegations (Brussels, Belgium)