Slawomir TOMAN (b. 1966), Untitled, 2004

oil, canvas; 100 x 65 cm;
signed, dated and described on the reverse: TOMAN'S/ "WITHOUT
TITLE"/ 2004 / OIL, PŁ.TNO / 100 X 65.

Painter, didactician, curator of exhibitions. Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and at the Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts in Renes, France. Nominated for the Passport of Polityka (2003). Scholarship holder of the Polish Ministry of Culture (2002) and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1995). Winner of the Arteon art magazine award (2001). Since 1997 he has been affiliated with the Institute of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (currently serving as vice-dean). Founder and first president of the Otwarta Pracownia Art Association in Lublin in 2011- 2014, member of Otwarta Pracownia in Cracow and the Lublin Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. Member of program boards of several galleries and juror of art competitions. Works in collections: the collection of Arteon, the collection of the Piekary Gallery, the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, the collection of the BWA Gallery in Sandomierz and other private collections at home and abroad. He has presented his paintings in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums including. Warsaw (CCA Ujazdowski Castle, National Museum, Beta16, Karowa, Farbiarnia, DAP), Poznan (Piekary, U Jezuitów, InnerSpaces, Szyperska, CK Zamek), Krakow (Otwarta Pracownia, Nova, Pryzmat, Pałac Sztuki), Tricity (PGS in Sopot, National Museum in Gdansk, Chlebnicka - ASP), Lublin (Zachęta, Biała, BWA, Labirynt, Warsztaty Kultury, Zajezdnia, Pod podłogą), and in many other galleries in Poland and abroad.