Kacper Bożek

Bio

Kacper Bozek was born in 1974 in Cracow. He graduated from the Print Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow presenting the thesis created in copperplate and lithography workshops under supervision of prof. Stanislaw Wejman. Since 2011 he has been working there as an Assistant Professor.

In November 2013 he received   Ph.D. based on his dissertation inspired by the life of Jan Potocki and his novel Manuscript found in Saragossa. He presented his works on around 30 solo shows in Poland and abroad. He has also participated in many group exhibitions and was awarded with several prizes such as: Grand Prix in Print of the Year 2002 in Krakow, scholarship of the City of Krakow 2003 (for creative professions), 2nd prize in Premio Leonardo Sciascia amateur d’estampes (7th Edition in 2013) in Italy, 1st Prize on Grafiteka, Warsaw 2019, 2nd Prize on the 11th Kochi Internationsl Triennial.

He is mostly involved in working with intaglio techniques, especially etching and aquatint.

One of his main inspirations is literature. He completed two portfolios of prints based on Master and Margarita and Manuscript Found in Zaragoza.

 

Recent solo shows:

  • 2011 Grafik aus Krakau, Kunstverein, Alsdorf, Germany
  • 2014 Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy
  • 2014 Fondazione Il Bisonte, Florence, Italy
  • 2014 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
  • 2016 Vauxhall Gallery, Krzeszowice
  • 2017 Nautilus Gallery, Krakow
  • 2017 Pragaleria, Warsaw
  • 2017 Gallery M, Wroclaw
  • 2018 Engram Gallery and Art Academy Gallery in Katowice.
  • 2018 Pragaleria, Warsaw
  • 2019 National Museum, Pozarevac, Serbia

 

Chosen Collective Exhibitions:

  • 1998 Interprint: Students works presented in Poland, Ireland, Netherlands, USA and UK
  • 2002 Salon d’Estampa, Madrid, Spain
  • 2011 Eastern European Printmakers Today, Muskat Studios Gallery, Brickbottom Gallery, Sommerville (USA)   2011 Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham (USA)
  • 2012- 2013 Visible / Invisible. Prints of the 21st Century. Jan Fejkiel Gallery Collection, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (USA).
  • 2013 I International Exhibition of Printmaking “In Search of the Lost Paradise”, Metropolitan Curia of Granada (Spain).
  • 2015 5th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China
  • 2016 1st International Academic Printmaking Alliance Invitational Exhibition, Taimaio Art Gallery –   The Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Forbidden City, Beijing, China
  • 2018 9th   Intenational Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal
  • 2018 6th   Bienal Internacional de Grabado Aguafuerte, Spain
  • 2019 7th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China
  • 2019 Reality and her fantasies. Contemporary Polish Printmakers. Reykjanes Art Museum/ Jan Fejkiel Gallery, Island
  • 2019 2nd International Print Biennale, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2019 Exchange Exhibition of Polish Printmaking, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 1999 – 1st International Drawing Competition, Wrocław, Poland

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