March/April 2012
 Painting
Zenon Windak
He was born in 1954. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1976-1981 and earned a diploma in the chalcographic studio of Prof. Mieczysław Wejman and in painting under Prof. Jan Świderski in 1981.
He established his own art studio, Katowice 1992-1993.
He was awarded a doctoral degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2001.
Since 2006, he has been running his own independent Art Gallery in Słowików, Poland. Apart from continuing to exhibit his own works, he is engaged in the arrangement of artists' meetings, plein-air events and educational workshops for children and teenagers.
His works have been exhibited at individual and a few tens collective exhibitions that have brought him a number of awards.
1983 Winter Salon, Radom (award)
1986 12th Polish Contemporary Painting Festival, Szczecin (award)
1987 The J. Spychalski Contest, Poznań (honourable mention)
1988 14th Polish Contemporary Painting Festival, Szczecin (award)
1992 Piece of Art of the Year – The Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Katowice (award)
1997 Bielska Jesień Art Exhibition Office, Bielsko-Biała (mention)
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
Activities, projects
1980 FAMA Art Gallery, Kraków
1981 Pod Prasą Art Gallery, Katowice
1990 OJiKP Art Gallery, Bratislava
Polish Modern Painting Festival
Szczecin (accompanying exhibition)
1991 Art Exhibition Office, Katowice
1993 Gojowy Art Gallery, Krefeld (Germany)
1994 Victoria, Katowice
Kameleon Art Gallery, Art Exhibition Office, Częstochowa
1996 Art Exhibition Office, Słupsk
1997 (Painting Exhibition) Chimera Art Gallery, Katowice
2003 Nad Potokiem Art Gallery
2005 Kamion
2006 -2007 Słowików Project
Establishment of an own art studio in a building that used to house a school
2008 W POLU Art Gallery, Painting Retrospective (25 years of artistic career)
Connection 31/05
Bass Adjustment of a Sign (B. Mizerski)
2009 W POLU Art Gallery, Plus - Minus (March)
ARTmeeting-Project - Educational project for children and adolescents (May-June)
CONTEXTS 30/05
2010 INFOaxis, 14 March - 27 April, W POLU Art Gallery
TECHNOlirycs, 5 June - 10 July, W POLU Art Gallery
LAMPERIA, 12 July - 23 July, W POLU Art Gallery
CONFIGURATIONS, 04 September - 19 September, W POLU Art Gallery
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1983 Winter Salon, Radom (award)
1985 Expressive Art Group, Katowice
1986 12th Polish Contemporary Painting Festival,
Szczecin (award)
1987 J. Spychalski Contest, Poznań
(honourable mention)
Od Wtorku Group, Szczecin
Od Wtorku Group, Bielsko-Biała
1988 14th Polish Contemporary Painting Festival,
Szczecin (award)
Arsenal, Warszawa
Festival Winners Exhibition, Karlove Vary
1989 100 Colours, Polish Institute Art Gallery, Amsterdam
Young Polish Painters, Berlin
InterArt Fair, Poznań
Critics about Us, Sopot
1990 Young Polish Painters, Vilecroze, France
Interart Poznań
Art Fair, Stuttgart
1991 Ars Polona, Düsseldorf
Axis Art Gallery, Katowice (2 times)
Bielska Jesień, Art Exhibition Office, Bielsko-Biała
Amay - Jehay, Belgium
1991/92 MOBILIS, Rossens, Switzerland
1992 Bielska Jesień, Art Exhibition Office, Bielsko-Biała
1992/93 Establishment of an own art studio, Katowice
1993 Piece of Art of the Year (1992), Katowice, award
1994 MINIme Art Chamber Music Festival
Arts Centre, Bytom
Bielska Jesień, Bielsko-Biała, Częstochowa
Ostrołęka
Johannbau Dessau, Germany
1995 Bielska Jesień, Leszno, Opole
Upper Silesia Modern Arts, Prague
1996 International Computer Fair,
Hannover (accompanying exhibition)
1996 Drawing Exhibition, Arts Centre, Bytom
16th Polish Contemporary Painting Festival
Jury and Invited Guests (accompanying exhibition)
Szczecin
Chimera Art Gallery, Katowice
1997 Bielska Jesień, Art Exhibition Office, Bielsko-Biała (mention)
1997 Jurajska Jesień, Painting plein-air events
1998 Kruszyna Plein-air workshops
Nationwide plein-air event, Nowogard
W drodze, Modena Studio
Exhibition - auction held under the patronage of Ludgarda Buzek
1999 13 Muses Club, Szczecin, post plein-air event exhibition
2000 International Artistic Plein-air Events (films, music, painting)
Nowogard
Exhibition - 13th Polish Modern Painting
Szczecin
About Drawing, Concert Hall, Częstochowa, Academic Year Inauguration
Different World Art Gallery, Tarnowskie Góry
2001 Municipal Cultural Centre, Zawiercie, February - March
Baltic Art Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, May - June
2002 Gaude Mater Promotion and Culture Centre
Solvay Arts Centre, Kraków
3rd Lower Silesia Visual Art Plein-air Events, Świeradów Zdrój
Post plein-air event exhibition, Culture and Art Centre, Wroclaw, 2003
2003 Painting or Drawing Art Exhibition Office, Kielce
Summer with the Muses Nowogard - Film, Music and Painting Festival
Świeradów Zdrój - Painting Plein-air Workshops - post plein-air event exhibition
25th Anniversary of Visual Arts at the Higher School of Fine Art, Częstochowa - Art Exhibition Office
2004 All-Poland Painting Plein-air Workshops, Świeradów Zdrój - post plein-air event exhibition
2005 International Painting Plein-air events, Rybokarty Palace
Post plein-air event exhibition, Cultural Centre, Gryfice
Hucisko, Orle Gniazdo, Jurajska Jesień International Plein-air events
2007 Rybokarty Palace, September, Nationwide Artistic Plein-air events
2008 Summer with the Muses, Film, Music and Painting Festival, Nowogard
Świeradów Zdrój, Plein-air events - Exhibition
Miscellaneous Art Plein-air events, Tyrawa Solna
The Jan Długosz Academy 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Częstochowa
2009 30th Anniversary of the Institute of Visual Arts, The Jan Długosz Academy
Contemporary Art Gallery OPOLE
30th Anniversary of the Institute of Visual Arts, The Jan Długosz Academy,
House of Creative Communities, Kielce
ASSOCIATIONS 17 - 27/07, J.Czerniawski, W. Mazanka, Cz. Tumielewicz, J. Walasek
Z. Windak, Painting plein-air event, W POLU Art Gallery
2010 ASSOCIATIONS 16/07 - 25/07, W POLU Art Gallery
Wojciech Ćwiertniewicz, Stanisław Koba, Jacek Sroka, Zenon Windak
Artistic plein-air events, Świeradów Zdrój, PARK HOTEL 08/08 - 15/08
Drago Juljus Prelog, Exhibition Organizer, W POLU Art Gallery
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