PAWEL
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PAWEL WOJTASIK
BIOGRAPHY
Pawel Wojtasik was born in Poland and lived in Tunisia
before immigrating to the United States in 1972. He was most recently a featured
artist of the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Colgate University. Wojtasik
received his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1996. Wojtasik's work has been
exhibited at P.S.1; the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain; Hartford Atheneum,
Hartford, CT; MASS MoCA, Martos Gallery, New York; Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn,
and others. His films were shown at numerous festivals and venues, including
Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque,
Oberhausen Film Festival; San Francisco International Film Festival; Rotterdam
International Film festival; Images Festival, Toronto; Videoformes, France;
Borderline Festival, Beijing, China and PBS WNET/Thirteen TV station in New
York. Wojtasik's work was favorably reviewed by The New York Times, Artforum,
New York Arts Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe,
El Pais (Spain) and other publications. In the spring of 2009 Wojtasik presented
a groundbreaking 360° panoramic video installation Below Sea Level, at Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), in North Adams, MA, with soundscape
by Stephen Vitiello. Next Atlantis (2010), with the world premiere
at Carnegie Hall, is the third collaboration between Wojtasik and composer
Sebastian Currier.
Born
in Lodz, Poland
Lives
in Brooklyn, NY
Yale
University (M.F.A. 1996)
SUNY
Empire State College (B.A. 1994)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2010 SMACK MELLON, Brooklyn, NY, solo exhibition, March 6 - April 11
CARNEGIE HALL, New York, NY, "Next Atlantis" with S. Currier, Jan 29
ANNENBERG CENTER, Philadelphia, PA, "Next Atlantis" with S. Currier, Jan 30
2009 MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Anthology Film Archives, Flaherty NYC, Oct 12
Uniondocs, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY
FESTIVAL SIGNES DE NUIT, Paris, France
LIQUID, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
VIDEOFORMES, Installation, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2008 Martos Gallery, New York, NY, (solo), Sept 18-Nov 1
Sonic Self, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
LISTE '08, Basel, Switzerland
Considering the Monuments: Video Art from the East Coast, Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO
Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
KRAJ, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland
Armory Show , New York, NY
PHOTO LA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Scanners Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Pie in he Face, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles
PBS WNET Thirteen, broadcast of The Aquarium
Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Blood Meridian, Michael Janssen gallery, Berlin, Germany
50,000 Beds Project, Real Art Ways, Artspace, The Aldrich Museum
:Minus, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Inaugural Screenings, Momenta Art gallery
CIGE 2007 Arts Fair, Beijing, China
Collectives of Irrepressible Cinema(s), Orchard gallery, New York, NY
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Loneliness and Melancholy, Newspace Gallery, MCC, Manchester, CT, co-curator
Coercive Atmospherics, curated by David Hunt, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY
Why Look at Animals?, Artspace, New Haven, CT
It Isn't Funny Any More, Project 1981, Long Island City, NY
2006 Poza, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
ANTIMATTER Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
PIGS, 4-channel installation, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY
Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Borderline Video Art Festival, Platform China Gallery, Beijing, China
Anthology
Film Archives, New York, NY
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 International Film Festival
Hypervision,
Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
Rotterdam
International Film Festival, part of Video Music 2: Electric Current
Alona
Kagan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The
Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY
The
Love Show, New Space Gallery, MCC, Manchester, CT (co-curator)
2005
Art Basel / Miami Beach, curated by David Hunt, Miami, Fla
The
New New York Video, Sous-Sol Gallery, Paris, France
The
Seismologist, curated by David Hunt, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Southampton,
NY
Greater
New York 2005, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, L.I.C., NY
Heat,
Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, N.Y
Terra
Infirma, curated by Berta Sichel, Proyecto Cultural de Castellon, 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)
MCC
Faculty show, Manchester Community
College, Manchester, CT
"and
Death" New Space Gallery, MCC, Manchester, CT (co-curator)
2004 Cine y Casi Cine, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid,
Spain
NADA
(The New Art Dealers Alliance), Miami
No
Return, Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sziget
Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Festival
of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT
Big
America, Fish Tank Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
MOST
Show, Kurier Plus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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
2001 The Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
New York, NY
1999 Artists
Space, New York, NY
GRANTS
& RESIDENCIES
2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, featured artist
2006 NYSCA individual artist grant
Yaddo, Janet Sloane endowed residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
VOOM HD LAB, New York, NY
2005
Yaddo, Newman's Own, Inc. Endowed residency (Film), Saratoga Springs,
NY
MacDowell,
Peterborough, New Hampshire
VOOM HD LAB, New York, NY, artist-in-residence
2004 The Outpost, Artist-in-Residence, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1999 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1996 Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
1998 International Dai Bosatsu
Zendo monastery, Catskill Mountains, New York
2010 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 Fall Guide 2008, Pawel Wojtasik: Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves, Robert Shuster, The Village Voice, 9/3/08
2007 Animals Exhibit Startles, Subverts, David Wheelock, Yale Daily News, 2/13/07
2006 The
Aquarium, Artforum, Claire Barliant, 5/2006
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, Ben Genocchio, 4/9/06
The
Mind’s Eye, The New York Times, Ben Genocchio, 3/19/06
2005 GREATER NEW YORK 2005, PS1/MoMA, 2005, (catalogue)
Terra Infirma, Berta Sichel, Proyecto Cultural de Castellon, 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
From
The Floor, Best of New York 2004, Todd Gibson
2004 The New York Times, Holland Cotter, 10/1/04
The
New Yorker, No Return, 10/18/04
Balkon
Magazine, Budapest, Hungary, 8/04, p. 43
New
York Arts Magazine, Live Large and Cast a Big Shadow, Linda Dennis
The
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, Cine y Casi Cine, Catalogue, 11/04
2005 Electric Current 2, Video
and Sound Collaborations. DVD published by
CollectivEye.
Essay by Aaron Yassin.