PAWEŁ WOJTASIK     

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Represented by Video Data Bank

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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

           

2011    Prospect 2 Biennial, New Orleans, LA, Below Sea Level, 360¡ Panoramic video        

                      installation with sound by Stephen Vitiello

            Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, solo exhibition

            International House, Philadelphia, PA, artist screening

            The Outpost, Artist Screening & Talk, Ridgewood/Bushwick, NYC

            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

            Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany

            Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, China, Grand Prize, Short Film

 

2010    New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde

            Kronos Quartet performs Next Atlantis, (le) Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

            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)

            Hamilton College, Best of The Flaherty, curated by Scott MacDonald, Clinton, NY

            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

            Prospect.2 New Orleans. Best of the Show: 5 Exhibits that Should Not Be Missed, Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune,

            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