Ryszard Winiarski
Ryszard Winiarski (born May 2, 1936, in Lviv, died December 14, 2006, in Warsaw) initially studied Precision Mechanics at the Warsaw University of Technology from 1953 to 1959. Later, he studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts between 1960 and 1966, under the guidance of Stanisław Szczepański, Jan Wołodyński, and Aleksander Kobzdej. He also studied scenography with Władysław Daszewski.
In 1966, before completing his diploma, Winiarski won the Main Award at the Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Puławy, titled Art in a Changing World. That same year, he received the Jan Cybis Award. In 1973, he was awarded a scholarship from the Kosciuszko Foundation. He was a member of the international group Arbeitskreis. He worked as an academic teacher, first at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, and from 1981, he ran his own studio "Problems of Painting in Architecture and the Human Environment" at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 1981, he was also a visiting professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2023 Szprynger/Winiarski, Galeria Art Rytel, Warszawa
2017 Ryszard Winiarski, Collateral Event of the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
2016 Ryszard Winiarski. Spectra Art Space Masters, Spectra Art Space, Warszawa
2012 Painting and Space: The Art of Ryszard Winiarski, Salon Akademii, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
2002 Ryszard Winiarski: Works from 1973–1974, Polish Auction House Gallery "Art," Kraków, Warsaw
1999 Winiarski Rolled the Dice, Stara Gallery, Lublin; One Painting and Many Dedications, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
1996 DAP Gallery, Warsaw (J. Cybis Award); Museum of the History of Łódź, Łódź
1992 Newest Art Gallery, Library, Legionowo (Curator: Stefan Szydłowski)
1991 Game, Starmach Gallery, Kraków
1987 Geometry, or the Chance for Meditation, Gerard Kwiatkowski-Bluma Gallery, Kleinsassen
1980 Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp; Foto-Video Gallery, Kraków; Synonyms, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Wrocław; Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
1977 Documentation of Ryszard Winiarski’s Works 1977–1980, Repassage Gallery, Warsaw
1974 BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz; Attempts at Visual Presentation of Statistical Distributions, Salon of Contemporary Art, Łódź; 5 x 5, Warsaw; Schwarz Gallery, Milan (with Henryk Stażewski)
1970 Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw; Encounter, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw (with Janusz Przybylski)
1968 Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw
1967 Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw (with Feliks Falk); BWA Gallery, Lublin (with Henryk Morel)
Selected group exhibitions:
2024 Dróżdż. Opałka. Winiarski. GRA(nic)a, Contemporary Museum, Wrocław
2023 Some people are like hills, Spectra Art Space, Warsaw
2021 72/21. Collection of 72 Gallery, Kordegarda, Warsaw
2012 Behind the Iron Curtain: Official and Independent Art in the USSR and Poland 1945–1989, National Museum, Gdańsk; (J)=J2, Starmach Gallery, Kraków; In the Labyrinth of Art, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2010 From Bożena Kowalska’s Collection, CSW Elektrownia, Radom; Things Arousing Emotions: Selected Narratives from the Collection, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2004/5 Warsaw – Moscow/Moscow – Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
2000 Light, Space, Number: Polish Avant-garde – Jan Berdyszak, Stefan Gierowski, Ryszard Winiarski, Kunsthaus, Nuremberg
1998 Geometry in Polish Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko; Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw; Pole, Hungarian... Triple Dialogue: 3 x 2, International Cultural Center, Kraków; Constructive Art in Poland from the Museum of Chełm, Freiburg
1989 International Art Seminar, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; II Biennale of New Art, Vision and Unity, Apeldoorn; Eco Art, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Manhattan’s Dungeons: Art of Other Media, garages, Łódź
1987 Suwałki Encounters, Wigry; II Biennale of New Art, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra; Freiraum 1, Kunststation, Kleinsassen
1975 Polish Artists at Royal British Artists Gallery, London; Post-Competition Drawing Exhibition, Barcelona; Polish Painting, Budapest; Art Fair, Polart Gallery, Düsseldorf; International Exhibition, Lydia Megert Gallery, Bern; Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw; Złote Grono, Zielona Góra; IV International Drawing Triennale, Wrocław
1971 International Biennale, São Paulo; Złote Grono Symposium, Zielona Góra; Five Polish Painters, Oslo
1969 Constructivist Biennale, Nuremberg
1966 Art in a Changing World, Puławy; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh