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WOJTASIK
Represented by Video Data Bank
EDUCATION
Yale University (M.F.A. 1996)
SUNY Empire State College (B.A. 1994)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2013 Museum of the Moving Image, Single Stream (Installation), Astoria, New York (July 3-Nov 3)
Harvestworks, Below Sea Level (Installation), part of New York Festival of Electronic Art, New York, NY (July 19-21)
Michael Thibault Gallery, It-Thou, Los Angeles, CA
Video Dumbo, Eyebeam, New York, NY
Queens College Art Gallery, Namaste, Queens, New York
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
FLEX, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival
Hyperabstraction, 53 Crosby St, curated by Emil Memon, New York, NY
2012 Hors
Pistes Film Festival, Centre Pompidou,
Paris, France
Hors Pistes Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, VDB
Roots and Culture Gallery, Chicago, IL, VDB
Antimatter Film Festival, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, VDB
installation with sound by Stephen Vitiello
New World Symphony, Next Atlantis, video with music by Sebastian Currier, Miami, Florida
Symphony Space, Next Atlantis, video with music by Sebastian Currier, New York, NY
Hong
Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong
2010 New
York Film Festival, Views
from the Avant-Garde
Issue
Project Space, Brooklyn,
NY
Dallas Videofest, Dallas, Texas
Streamfest Film Festival, Salento, Italy
At the Still Point, 5-channel installation, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
Soundscape by Stephen Vitiello
Inside/Out, curated by Micaela Giovanotti, Cuchifritos Gallery/Project Space,
New
York, NY (3-person show)
The
Program: Art Beyond
the Frame,
the Conduit Gallery, Dallas Texas
Carnegie
Hall, Next
Atlantis video with music by Sebastian
Currier, NYC
Annenberg
Center for the Performing Arts, Next Atlantis, Philadelphia, PA
Union
Docs, Glassing the
Landscape, Brooklyn, NY
2009 MASS
MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), April – Feb, 2010
Below
Sea Level, with soundscape by Stephen Vitiello
Anthology
Film Archives,
Flaherty NYC (solo)
Cine
Trans Europe,
Paris, France
UnionDocs, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Robert
Flaherty Seminar,
featured artist, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Festival
Signes de Nuit,
Paris, France
Videoformes, Dark Sun Squeeze, 3-Channel Installation,
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Liquid, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery,
Manchester, CT
2008 Centro
de Arte Dos de Mayo,
Madrid, Spain (Sept. – Jan. 2009)
Love
Love Love, Martos
Gallery, New York, NY
Martos
Gallery, New York,
NY (solo)
Sonic
Self, Chelsea Art
Museum, New York, NY
Liste
Õ08, Basel,
Switzerland
Oberhausen
Film Festival,
Germany
KRAJ,
Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland
Armory
Show, New York, NY
Photo
L.A., Los Angeles,
CA
2007
SCANNERS Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
The
Reina Sofia Museum,
Cine y Casi Cine,
Madrid, Spain
Aspen
Art Museum:MINUS, , Aspen, Colorado
Video
Dumbo, Dumbo Arts
Festival, Brooklyn, NY
PBS/Thirteen,
Public TV, Reel NY, New York Metropolitan Area
50,000
Beds Project,
Artspace, New Haven, CT; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT;
The
Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT)
Michael
Janssen Gallery, Blood Meridian, curated by David Hunt, , Berlin, Germany
Jail
Gallery, Pie in
the Face, Los Angeles, CA
GrayÕs
Reef Film Festival,
Savannah, Georgia
Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum, Connecticut
Contemporary,
Hartford, CT
Momenta
Art Gallery, Inaugural Screenings, Brooklyn, NY
Coercive
Atmospherics,
curated by David Hunt, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Athens
International Film Festival, Athens, Ohio
Orchard
Gallery, Collectives
of Irrepressible Cinema(s), New York, NY
IMAGES
Film Festival,
Toronto, Canada
Why
Look at Animals?
Artspace, New Haven, CT
It
IsnÕt Funny Anymore, Project
1981, L.I.C., NY
2006 Sara Meltzer Gallery, Prevailing Climate, New York, NY
Out
of True, curated by M. Giovanotti & J.
Korotkin, Design District, Miami, Fla
Anthology
Film Archives, Voom HD Lab Presents, New York, NY
POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
(Oct. – Jan. 2007)
ANTIMATTER
Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC,
Canada
Anthology
Film Archives, New
York, NY
Borderline
Video Art Festival,
Platform China gallery, Beijing, China
Onion
City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Maui
Film Festival,
Hawaii
LOOP Fair, Barcelona, Spain
Digital
Art Oxford, Oxford, England
San
Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
San
Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Westport
Arts Center, Hypervision Westport, CT
Rotterdam
International Film Festival, part of Video Music 2: Electric Current
Alona
Kagan Gallery, New
York, NY (solo)
Exit
Art, The
Studio Visit,
New York, NY
New
Space Gallery, The
Love Show, MCC, Manchester, CT (co-curator)
2005
Greater New York 2005,
PS1 Contemporary
Art Center, L.I.C., NY
Art
Basel / Miami Beach, curated
by David Hunt, Miami, Fla
The
New New York Video, Sous-Sol
Gallery, Paris, France
Alona
Kagan Gallery, Heat, New York, N.Y
Proyecto
Cultural de Castellon,
Terra Infirma, curated by Berta Sichel, Valencia,
Spain
From
the Root to the Fruit, curated by David Hunt, Alona Kagan Gallery, NYC
Scope
Hamptons, curated
by David Hunt, Southampton, NY
In
the Round, Ely House, Center for
Contemporary Art,
New Haven, CT
Kunstencentrum
Netwerk Gallery,
Antwerp, Belgium
F-18
Gallery, Antwerp,
Belgium (2-person show)
Òand
DeathÓ New
Space Gallery, MCC,
Manchester, CT (co-curator)
2004 The
Reina Sofia Museum,
Cine y Casi Cine, Madrid, Spain
NADA (The New Art Dealers Alliance),
Miami, Florida
Momenta
Art Gallery, No
Return, Brooklyn,
NY
Sziget
Festival, Budapest,
Hungary
Fish
Tank Gallery,
Big America,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Real
Art Ways, Hartford,
CT (solo)
The
God Show, New
Space Gallery, MCC,
Manchester, CT (co-curator)
2003 The
Lightshow,
Clocktower Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Cosmorama, Akus Gallery, E. CT State
University, Willimantic, CT
Cynthia
Broan Gallery, New
York, NY
New
Space Gallery, MCC,
Manchester, CT (solo)
2002 National
Museum, Minsk,
Belarus
8
Reflections on Time, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Wyjscie
Ewakuacyjne Gallery,
Warsaw, Poland
1999 Artists Space, New York, NY
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2012 New
York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Video/Film
Fulbright scholar award - India
2011 Grand
Prize, Short Film Competition, Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival
2010 NYSCA
Individual Artist Grant in Film&Video
2009 Flaherty
Seminar/featured artist
2008 Equipment
grant, EMPAC, Troy, NY
2007 Look
and Listen, panelist, Robert Miller gallery, New York, NY
2006 NYSCA
Individual Artist Grant in Film & Video
Yaddo,
Janet Sloane endowed residency (Film), Saratoga Springs, NY
VOOM
HD Lab, New York, NY, grant
2005 LAB
HD, New York, NY, Artist-in
Residence
Yaddo,
NewmanÕs Own, Inc. endowed residency (Film), Saratoga Springs, NY
MacDowell
Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2004 The
Outpost, Artist-in-Residence, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1999 Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts
1996 Edward
Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
SELECTED RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 Perception
as Transcendence, Interview with Pawel Wojtasik, Scott
MacDonald , Film Quarterly, December 2011
November
13, 2011
2010 A Quartet Mixes It Up with Younger Voices, Steve Smith, The New York Times, 10/11/2010
Inside/Out, Anne
Doran, Time Out New York, 6/10/2010
The
Gallery Scene on ManhattanÕs Lower East Side,
Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, 5/23/2010
Pawel Wojtasik at Smack Mellon, Karley Klopfelstein,
Artcritical.com, 4/10
Best
in Show:...Pawel WojtasikÕs ÒAt the Still Point,Ó Robert Shuster, The Village Voice, 3/30/10
American
Composers Orchestra,
Steve Smith, The New York Times, 2/1/10
New
Composers at Annenberg, David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/2/10
2009 Mournful Reflections, Sebastian Smee, The Boston
Globe, 4/18/09
2008 Like
a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves, Exhibition Catalogue, Saveur Edition
POZA, Real
Art Ways, Hartford, CT, catalogue
Fall Guide 2008, Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves, Robert Schuster, The Village Voice, 9/03/08
2007 Hotel
Rooms Become Overnight Stars, Linda Yablonsky,
The New York Times
7/8/2007
50,000
Beds, exhibition
catalogue, Aldrich Museum, Real Art Ways, Artspace New Haven
Animals
Exhibit Startles, Subverts, David Wheelock, Yale Daily News, 2/13/07
2006 The
Aquarium, Artforum,
Claire Barliant, 5/2006
International
Perspectives on Being Polish, The New York Times,
Benjamin
Genocchio, 12/3/06
Paradox
of Perception: The Video Work of Pawel Wojtasik, New York Arts
Magazine, Aaron Yassin, 5/2006
Love,
Without Make-up,
The New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, 4/9/06
The
MindÕs Eye, The New
York Times, Benjamin
Genocchio, 3/19/06
2005 Greater
New York 2005, PS 1
Contemp. Art Center & MoMA,
catalogue
Terra
Infirma, Berta
Sichel, Proyecto Cultural de Castellon, Valencia, Spain
El
Pais, Madrid, Spain, 7/24/05
A
Short History of Decay, Vincent Meessen, F-18, HISK, Belgium
Philadelphia
Inquirer, Edward J. Sozanski, 3/20/05
Best
of New York 2004, From
The Floor, Todd Gibson
2004 No
Return, The New
York Times, Holland Cotter, 10/1/04
No
Return, The New
Yorker, 10/18/04
Balkon
Magazine, Budapest, Hungary, 8/04, p. 43
Cine
y Casi Cine, The
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, catalogue, 11/04
DVD COLLECTION
2005 Electric
Current 2, DVD
published by CollectiveEye. Essay by Aaron Yassin