Sylvester STABRYŁA (born 1975), West side, 2023

oil, canvas, 110 x 90 cm, signed on the back

Born in 1975 in Brzozow, Poland. Graduated from the Department of Art at the Radom Technical University in 2002. Diploma in painting - Prof. Andrzej Gieraga, annex in graphics - Prof. Krzysztof Wyzner. Works in painting, graphics, drawing and large-format decorative wall painting (murals).

Awards and distinctions:

- Award of the City of Sanok for special achievements in the field of "Culture and Art" in the category: "Artistic creation - visual arts," 2019.
- Finalist of the 43rd Biennale of Painting "Bielska Jesień", BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, 2017.
- Grand Prix in the competition "Genius Saeculi - Spirit of our time..." in tribute to Magdalena Abakanowicz, Gallery r_z / ORz ZPAP, Rzeszow, 2017.
- Honorable mention at the ZPAP Biennale 2016-2017, BWA Rzeszow, 2017.
- Special award at the International Triennial of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Quadrilateral 2015" under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland
- Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting Szczecin 2012 - nomination for the award
- Grand Prix in the National Competition "Materia Medicinalis, Materia Artificialis", Museum of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, 2011.
- Nomination of the monthly magazine "ART&BUSINESS" for the award for the debut of the year 2006.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2020 - "In a circle...", Gallery r_z / ORz ZPAP, Rzeszow.
2019 - "In the Mirror," City Gallery, Rzeszow.
2018 - "True Story", BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok
2018 - "Paradise Lost," Przemysl Castle Culture and Science Center, Przemysl
2017 - "Camouflage", Municipal Cultural Center, Bydgoszcz.
2016 - "Before the Storm," Galerie Die Schöne, Vienna
2016 - "Before the Storm," Bohema Nowa Sztuka, Warsaw.
2016 - "Independent Stories," BWA, Krosno
2016 - "Home for the Cure," ToTu Gallery, Rzeszów
2015 - "Partial Exposure," POSK, London.
2015 - "Searching for Reality," Galerie Die Schöne, Vienna
2015 - "Mistak, Stabryła, Szczepkowski", Historical Museum, Sanok
2014 - "Realism Impossible," Domus Aurea Gallery, Lublin
2014 - "Standbild und andere Geschichten", "buch|bund", Berlin
2014 - "New Realism," ArtWay Festival, Prague
2012 - "Big Boys," Solvay Center for Contemporary Art, Krakow.

Selected group exhibitions:

2020 - "What Sign of Yours? The Warsaw Uprising and Fighting Poland in Contemporary Culture and Art", Warsaw Uprising Museum, Warsaw
2020 - 4th National Leon Wyczółkowski Painting Competition, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz.
2020 - 11th International Biennale of Miniatures, OPK Gaude Mater, Częstochowa
2019 - "Miasteczko", BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok
2019 - "War Games 1939", All-Poland art exhibition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, "Bath" Gallery, Radom
2018 - "DAgART Calling," DAgART Gallery, Rzeszow.
2018 - International Triennial of Paintings of the Carpathian Region "Silver Quadrilateral", Przemyśl, Castle Museum - Lańcut
2018 - "Trans_formations", BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok
2017 - "Couchette Coach", Xanadu Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2017 - 43rd Painting Biennale "Bielska Jesień", BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała
2017 - IV Piotrkowskie Biennale of Art, Piotrkow Trybunalski.
2016 - "Funny Games", Gallery of the Faculty of Art of the University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów
2016 - 25th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Castle of Pomeranian Dukes, Szczecin.
2016 - "Project 966," University Museum of the University of Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń.
2016 - "Starters", DagmaArt Gallery, Katowice, Poland.
2015 - "Contrasts," Expo 2015, Milan
2015 - "Art Territory Festival", Lutsk.
2014 - Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Graphic of the Year, BWA, Rzeszow
2014 - 8th International Biennale of Miniature Art, OPK Gaude Mater, Częstochowa
2014- "Presences and Returns," BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok
2014 - "Ars - Principia", UMK Toruń
2013- "Young Polish Art," POSK, London.
2013- Triennale of Small Painting Forms, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń
2013 - "3+2×3=1" - WSIZ, Rzeszow
2013 - "Shadow of Chernobyl", BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok
2012 - International exhibition "30×30", Reinheim City Gallery, Germany
2011 - "Salon of Greater Poland 2011", Municipal Cultural Center, Czarnkow, Poland
2011 - II Triennale of Painting "Animalis", MM Gallery, Chorzow