Michał Misiak
Born in 1973, in Tarnów. In 1999, he graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He defended his diploma with honours in the studio of Prof. Stanisław Rodziński with a graphic annex in the wood engraving studio of Prof. Zbigniew Lutomski. Since 2000, he has been a research and teaching staff member at the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. From 2000 to 2006 in the 1st Drawing and Painting Studio, and from 2006 to 2019 in the 2nd Drawing and Painting Studio. In 2013, he created the Studio of Structures of Spatial Activities and Colour, where he currently implements his original program with students. He works in painting, drawing, spatial forms, photography and digital animation. Holder of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and winner of several prizes and distinctions. He is the author of 30 solo exhibitions, and participant in more than 140 group exhibitions. Between 2004 and 2018, he was a participant in the open-air workshops of artists using the language of geometry of Dr. Bożena Kowalska. His works can be found in the collections of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Gorlitz (Germany), Museum Jerke in Recklinghausen (Germany), the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, the Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, the Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, the International Triennale of Graphics in Krakow, the Museum of the Borderlands in Lubaczów, and in private collections in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Ukraine and the USA.
Selected awards and distinctions:
2012- 24th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Szczecin (Format quarterly award)
2008- VI Triennale of Polish Contemporary Drawing, Lubaczów (distinction)
2005- I Biennale of Painting "Artefakt", Łódź (1st prize)
2005- V Triennale of Polish Contemporary Drawing, Lubaczów (Grand Prix)
2004- 20th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting "Configuration", Szczecin (distinction)
2004- "Music in Painting", Galeria Obok, Tychy (2nd prize)
2003 - Creative Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
2002- "Music in Painting", Gallery Obok, Tychy (1st prize)
2001- Creative Scholarship of the City of Cracow
Solo exhibitions:
2023 - „Simple Complexity”, Molski gallery&collection, Poznań
2021 - „Frequencies”, galeria Dystans, Kraków
2019 – „Line by Line” - with Olgą Ząbroń, Galerie Heilig Geist Spital, Norymberga, Germany
2019 - „Fluctuations”, Mia Art Gallery, Wrocław
2019 - „interference / fluctuations”, Olsztyńska Galeria Sztuki, Olsztyn
2018 - „Variable” with z Olgą Ząbroń , JIL Gallery, Warszawa
2018 - „Balance fluctuations”, Korekta Gallery, Warszawa
2015- „Geometria porządku - geometria przypadku”, Patio 2 Gallery, Akademia Humanistyczno Ekonomiczna, Łódź
2015- „Vibrations” - with Gerhardem Birkhoferem, Haus der Modernen Kunst, Staufen, Germany
2014- "Michał Misiak - painting", galeria Van den Berg, Warszawa
2014- „Względność dwuwymiaru”, Galeria Chłodna 20, Suwałki
2013- „Dynamic structures”, Galeria Socato, Wrocław
2013- „Elementary particle”, Galeria w Hallu CkiS, Kalisz
2012- „Symmetries and interference”, Rogatka Gallery, Politechnika Radomska, Radom
2011- „Symmetries”, galeria Pod Rejentem, Kraków
2010- „Symmetries”, Forum Gallery , Łódź
2008- „Expanse – space – depth”, Sagan Gallery, Essen, Germany
2007- „Perfections”, Galeria Atribut, Kijów, Ukraine
2006- „Farbschwingungen” – Galerie Birkhofer, Gottenheim, Germany
2006- Kwiatkowski, Misiak, Pytel – painting, drawing, graphics, relief, BWA Sandomierz
2005- „Zestawienie”, with z Krystyna Misiak, Miejska Gallery BWA, Tarnów
2005- „Oscillations”, Anya Tish gallery, Houston, USA
2004- „Rainy Summer”, Galeria Olympia, Kraków
2004- „Pictures 2002 – 2004”, Galeria Centrum, Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury, Kraków
2004- Kwiatkowski, Misiak, Pytel – painting, drawing, graphics, relief, ZPAP Pryzmat Gallery, Kraków
2003- Maciej Kwiatkowski, Michał Misiak, Rafał Pytel, Pracownia działań, Sukiennice, Kraków
2003- „Przestrzenie samotności”, Olympia Gallery, Kraków
2002- Rafał Borcz, Patryk Lutomski, Michał Misiak, Painting, Drawing, Graphics,
Sukiennice Gallery, Kraków – the exhibition accompanying the Festival of Young Art "novart.pl"
2000- Exhibition of paintings and graphics, „Grotta nobile” Gallery, Kraków
1999- Solo exhibition „Drawing and graphics”, Klub pod Ręką, Kraków
