FACT SHEET — ANDRZEJ TARANEK

Born
• 1953 — Gdańsk, Poland

Education
• Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk — Diploma 1982; PhD 2015

Doctoral Dissertation
• “The Landscape of Gdańsk as Cultural Heritage Amid Ongoing Transformations”
  (Polish: “Krajobraz Gdańska jako dziedzictwo kulturowe wobec zachodzących przemian”), 2015

Fields
• Graphic art, painting, book illustration

Mediums
• Printmaking (etching), drawing (pen and ink; colored pencil), painting

Themes
• Gdańsk’s architectural heritage, memory, urban change, landscape

Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 9th International Amber Fair “Amberif”, 2002
• State Art Gallery, Sopot, 2004
• “Collected Crumbs” (Okruchy zebrane), Uphagen House, Gdańsk, 2011
• Teacher’s House, Vilnius, 2012
• Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre, Kalisz, 2013
• Faculty of Graphic Arts, ASP Gdańsk, 2015
• “Carthage and the Ancient World of North Africa, and the Contemporary Image of the Maghreb”, Archaeological Museum, Gdańsk, 2019

Selected Awards and Honors
• Józef Gielniak All‑Polish Graphic Competition — 1983, 1989
• Polish Society of Book Publishers — Most Beautiful Book of the Year — 1997, 1998, 1999
• Gdańsk Society of Friends of Art (GTPS) — Gdańsk Print of the Year — 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1995
• GTPS Artistic Award — 2011
• 100th Anniversary Medal — Gdańsk Scientific Society — 2022

Collections
• National Museum in Gdańsk
• National Library in Warsaw
• Ossoliński National Institute, Wrocław
• Private collections in Europe and the United States

Contact
• press@andrzejtaranek.org
• https://andrzejtaranek.org/