Pawel Zak

Studied social sciences on the University of Warsaw

Graduate of the Multimedia Communication Faculty of the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts.
Teaching photography at the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw, and ZPAF Warsaw School of Photography.
Member of Association of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF)
Laureate of, amongst others, Prix de la Lumierre at European Photography Contest- Vevey, Switzerland 1998.

In In his work, two trends can be distinguished: staged photography with strong symbolic meaning, and compositionally minimal studies of nature - most often plants, fruits, sometimes landscapes. Many of his works are created using unusual copying techniques resulting in unique prints.

Most important series of works:

• Tales (1996-2006)
• unitiled (since 2000)
• close acquaintance (2002-2004)
• and other still lifes (2008-2017)

Since 1994 he participated in several dozens of collective exhibitions, dozens of individual exhibitions at home and abroad, including the Arles festival in 2004.

His works are in public collections:

• Bibliotheque Nationale w Paryżu
• National Museum in Warsaw
• Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw
• Museum of Art in Łódź
• and in numerous private collections in Poland and abroad.

Selected indyvidual exhibitions:

• 2017 Core Curriculum and Other Still Lifes, 6x7Leica Gallery, Warsaw
• 2016 Photographs, Anzerberger Gallery, Vienna
• 2014 Three words and other still lifes, Galeria Bardzo Biała, Warsaw
• 2011 Probability and other still lifes, Galeria Tarasin, Kalisz
• 2010 Evening waves and other photographs, Galeria Refleksy, Warsaw
• 2008 Close acquaintance, FF Gallery, Łódź
• 2008 Sweet Monday and other still lifes, Galeria Luksfera, Warsaw, Galeria Pauza, Kraków
• 2007 Tales, Polish Institute, Bratislava
• 2007 A Close Acquaintance, Kaunas, Lithuania
• 2007 Photographs, Instytut Francuski, Warsaw
• 2006 Tales, City Museum, Wroclaw
• 2005 Sunflowers and other photographs, Luksfera Gallery, Warsaw
• 2004 A Close Acquaintance, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles
• 2004 A Close Acquaintance, Mała Galeria ZPAF / CSW Warsaw
• 2003 15Photographs, Galeria ZPAF, Kraków
• 2003 Photographs, WM Gallery, Amsterdam
• 2001 Tales and other photographs, WM Gallery, Amsterdam
• 1999 Tales, Image Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark
• 1999 Tales, Mała Galeria ZPAF / CSW, Warsaw

Selected group exhibitions:

• 2018 Air and other things we need to live, BWA Bielsko-Biała
• 2015 "Shadow of ink" - Far Eastern inspiration in contemporary art, Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw
• 2014 "City marked" as part of the Warsaw Photo Days 2014 festival, Warsaw
• 2009 Photosensitive - photo collections at the National Museum in Warsaw
• 2008 Dreamers and Witnesses Photo of Poland of the Twentieth Century, National Museum, Krakow
• 2007 Remembered time - Mała Galeria 1977 - 2006, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
• 2007 Mirror of the Nature, City Museum, Wroclaw
• 2007 Polish photography in the twentieth century, Warsaw
• 2007 City - not mine, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
• 2004-2005 Me - others: Self portrait of photography, Jelenia Góra, Łódź, Poznań, Wrocław
• 2003 Touch of reality, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań
• 2002 Around the decade. Polish photography of the 90s, Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, National Museum Wroclaw, BWA Bielsko-Biała
• 2002 Zoom. Photographs in times of hustle and bustle, PkiN, Warsaw
• 2002 Touch of reality, BWA, Wrocław
• 2000 II Biennale of Photography, Gallery Arsenał, Poznań
• 1999 Together Again ?, Image Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark
• 1999 Visibility Islands, Gallery Arsenał, Poznań
• 1998 Images 98, European Photography Contest, Vevey, Switzerland (award Prix Broncolor de la lumiere )
• 1996 Photographic confrontations, Gorzów Wielkopolski (Grand Prix)