Bartosz Swiatecki (Pener) (b. 1981), Looking for the rain, 2020

Acrylic, spray, canvas, 60 x 60 cm, signed on the back: 'Bartek Swiatecki | 2020 | LOOKING FOR | THE RAIN'.



Graduated with honors in 2006 with a degree in easel painting from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, in the studio of Prof. Lech Wolski. Since 2008, he has been working as a certified teacher and runs the Painting and Drawing studio at the Eric Mendelsohn State High School of Fine Arts in Olsztyn. Since 1996, he has co-founded the Polish Graffiti scene, and since 2000, he has participated in the activities of the Polish street-art scene. In 2015, he received the Olsztyn Mayor's Award for special achievements in artistic creation. In 2014, he was nominated for the Olsztyn Hieronim Skurpski Art Prize. In 2013, he received an art scholarship from the Marshal of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Selected exhibitions: 2015 - "NOCTURNES" - solo exhibition, 886Geary Gallery, San Francisco, USA; 2015 - "G40 Art Summit". - group exhibition, Artwhino Gallery, Washington, USA; 2015 - "Cosmogramma" solo exhibition, Inoperable Gallery, Vienna; 2015 - "A Major Minority" - group exhibition, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, USA; 2015 - "Graffuturism 5 Year Anniversary" - group exhibition, 886Geary Gallery, San Francisco, USA; 2015 - "1AM Revolution" - group exhibition, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, USA; 2014 - "Polish Urban Art". - group exhibition, European Foundation for Urban Culture, Paris - Berlin - Batumi - Kyiv - Lviv - Kyiv - Minsk - Lublin - Stockholm; 2014 - "However/Different". - group exhibition, The Outsiders Gallery, Newcastle, UK; 2014 - "Arturbain" - group exhibition, Tajan auction house, Paris; 2014 - "Cieslak/Syruć/Swiątecki" - group exhibition, Kuratorium gallery, Warsaw; 2014 - "Urbstractions" - group exhibition, PrettyPortal Gallery, Duseldorf; 2014 - "PropaStuff" - group exhibition, Downstairs at Mother Gallery, London; 2014 - "Spring art collection" group exhibition, 1AM gallery, San Francisco, USA; 2014 - "Major Minority" - group exhibition, 1AM gallery, San Francisco, USA; 2014 - "PL group show" group exhibition, 44309 Gallery, Dortmund; 2013 - "Graffuturism" - group exhibition, OpenSpace Galery, Paris; 2012 - "Polish Street-art" - group exhibition, Rempex auction house, Warsaw.