Błażej OSTOJA LNISKI

(b. 1974) Professor of Fine Arts, painter and printmaker (practices mainly lithography); studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 1994-1999; has worked at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of his alma mater: Head of the Studio of Lithography; Dean of the Faculty, since 2012; author of a number of solo exhibitions in Poland and internationally, including, Lithographs, Polish Institute, Stockholm, 2004; Painting, Oranżeria Gallery of Modern Art, Jabłonna, 2011; Script, Figure, Repetition – paintings, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, 2012; Becoming a Window – paintings, Test Gallery, Warsaw, 2013; The Ostoja Lniskis: Between the Academic and Folk Art: A Family Duologue on Art, Museum of History and Ethnography, Gallery of Contemporary Polish Art, Chojnice, 2015. He belonged to the artists group ARTGrupa, 2002–2004. Multiple winner of the Warsaw Best Print of the Month; has also won the Kulisiewicz Prize, 2008, and the Most Beautiful Book of the Year PTWK Prize, for graphic design of the following publications: Władyslaw Winiecki – Grand Vaudeville (2011) and Marian Murawski. Illustrations (2014), as well as the Honorary Award of the Society of Polish Bibliophiles, 2011. He was awarded the “Fredro’s Pen 2015” for the book Karpacki Świat Bojków i Łemków. Roman Reinfuss. Fotografie at the National Publishers’ Competition for the Best Book of the Year, Wrocław, 2015.

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Błażej OSTOJA LNISKI

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