Education
1985 College of Photographic Arts, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
1983 Polish Society of Art Photographers School, Warsaw, Poland
1982 Warsaw College of Photography, Warsaw, Poland
Work Experience
2005 – present Fleming College, Haliburton School of Art and Design, Haliburton, ON, Faculty Member
1999 – 2014 Artists in Education, Ontario Arts Council, Teaching photography to elementary school students
1995 – 1999 Klotzek Press, Toronto, ON, Publisher and photographer: photography for books, pre-press prep.
1986 – 1998 Klotzek Studios, Toronto, ON, Freelance photographer specializing in Interiors and Architecture
1983 – 1985 State Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, Staff photographer and teacher
Selected Solo Exhibitions (63 in total)
2019 VIP Portrait Gallery, Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Estevan SK, Canada
2017 VIP Portrait Gallery, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, ON, Canada
2015 Garden of Eden, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA, USA
2015 Garden of Eden, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, USA
2015 Garden of Eden, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS, USA
2015 Garden of Eden, Le Centre d’exposition Leo-Ayotte, Shawinigan, QC, Canada
2015 Garden of Eden, Art Gallery of St. Albert, St. Albert, AB, Canada
2015 Weather Report, McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2015 VIP Portrait Gallery, University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS, USA
2014 VIP Portrait Gallery, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s , NL , Canada
2014 Garden of Eden, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, Canada
2014 Weather Report, Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, SD, USA
2014 Weather Report, Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2014 Garden of Eden, South Texas College Art Gallery, McAllen, TX, USA
2013 Garden of Eden, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
2013 Weather Report, Christensen Center Art Gallery, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2013 Weather Report, Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA, USA
2013 Garden of Eden, Centre National d’Exposition, Ville de Saguenay, QC, Canada
2013 Garden of Eden, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, USA
2013 Garden of Eden, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY, USA
2013 Garden of Eden, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC, Canada
2012 Garden of Eden, Musee Populaire de la Photographie, Drummondville, QC, Canada
2012 Garden of Eden, Musee d’art contemporaine des Laurentides, Saint-Jerome, QC, Canada
2012 Weather Report, Preus Museum – National Museum of Photography, Horten, Norway
2012 Garden of Eden, Dimbola Galleries and Photography Museum, Isle of Wight, UK
2012 Weather Report & Garden of Eden, Fotomuzejs – Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2012 Garden of Eden, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
2012 Weather Report, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness, NS, Canada
2012 Weather Report, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2012 Garden of Eden, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL, USA
2012 Garden of Eden, Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City, FL, USA
2012 Weather Report, GalleryWest, Toronto, ON, Canada
2012 Garden of Eden, Museu Bernado, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2012 Weather Report, Occurence Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2012 Garden of Eden, St. Lawrence University Art Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
2011 Garden of Eden, The Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2010 After Notman: Montreal Views – A Century Apart, McGill Street Outdoor Exhibition, Montreal, QC, Canada
2005 – 2006 After Notman: Montreal Views – A Century Apart, Exhibition Tour, Montreal, QC
2003 After Notman: Montreal Views – A Century Apart, McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, QC
1991 Memorial Photographs, Galerie Sequence, Chicoutimi, QC
1987 Memorial Photographs, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
1985 Places and Things, University of Warsaw, Poland
1985 Year 1984 – Memorial Photographs, Foto-Medium Art Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Selected Group Exhibitions (27 in total)
2016 Baroque, nothing but an illusion? Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany
2015 This is us now, Karsh-Masson Gallery &Atrium Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2014 Make it new, again, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2014 Process, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA, USA
2014 The Observant Eye, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, USA
2014 Collission20, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 See Food: Contemporary Photography & the Ways We Eat, HCP, Houston, TX,USA
2013 Creating Abundance, A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem Art Association, Salem, OR, USA
2013 Construction sites, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, USA
2013 Eat It, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, USA
2012 NordArt Festival, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Düdelsdorf, Germany
2012 Occupying Potato, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
2011 Potato Revolution, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2011 Food for Thought, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2011 Backlight International Photography Triennale, Tampere, Finland
2011 Faces of Economy, Art for Change, New York, NY, USA
2011 World Photography Awards, Embankment Galleries of the Somerset House, London, UK
2009 Extreme Places, California Museum of Photography, Digital Studio Gallery, Riverside, CA, USA
1999 Polish Photography in the World, ZPAF, Szczecin, Poland
1986 Elementary Photography, Artistic Exhibition Agency, Szczecin, Poland
Awards
2015, 2011, 2009, Ontario Arts Council, Project Grant (Established Artist)
2014, 2013, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2010, 2002, 1986 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2013 Nominated to Prix Pictet for 2 projects (Garden of Eden & Alien Nation)
2012 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, silver medal in Still-Life category
2011 Scopio Magazine International Photography Contest, winner
2011 Canada Council for the Arts, Artist in Community Grant (one of the project participants)
2011 Sony World Photo Awards, shortlisted
2003 Ontario Arts Council, Project Grant
1999- 2014 Ontario Arts Council, Artists in Education Grant
1999 Canada Council for the Arts, Creation/Production Grant (mid-career, long term)
1986 Young Photographers Present Europe, prize winner
Books
2016 “Weather Report” Blue Sky Books, Portland, OR, USA
2012 “Garden of Eden”, the Museum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
2003 “After Notman, Montreal Views – a Century Apart”, Firefly Books, Toronto
1997 “Toronto Parks”, Klotzek Press, Toronto
1996 “Bread”, Klotzek Press, Toronto
Selected press and other publications
Pixfan Magazine (France, 2015, photographs from Lisbon-Moscow series); Aint Bad Magazine (USA, 2015, photographs from Lisbon-Moscow series); Dodho Magazine (Spain, 2014, photographs from VIP Portraits Gallery and Lisbon-Moscow series
+ interview); GUP Magazine (Netherlands, 2014, online issue, portfolio from VIP Portrait Gallery series); F-Stop Magazine # 63: Documentary (USA, 2014, portfolio from Lisbon-Moscow series + interview); Prix Pictet: Consumption book (teNeues, USA, 2014, photograph from Alien Civilization series); The Seattle Times (USA, 2014, review of group exhibition Process at Photo Center NW, by Michael Upchurch); Vanier Now (Canada, 2014, review of Weather Report exhibition at Voix Visuelle in Ottawa); Blue Sky Gallery Exhibition Catalog 11/12 (2013, USA); F-Stop Magazine # 62 (USA, 2013, photographs from VIP Portrait Gallery series); En Pointe Magazine (USA, 2013, review of Garden of Eden exhibition); Design Arts Daily (USA, 2013, story on Lisbon-Moscow series by Peggy Roalf); Hiperrealizm (Poland, 2013, review of Lisbon-Moscow and Places and Things series, by Wojtek Wilczyk); Fototekstura (Poland, 2013, interview); Serious Photo Stuff (Canada, 2013, interview); Artvoice (USA, 2013 review of Garden of Eden exhibition, by Jack Foran); images from Garden of Eden included in An Artists Delight exhibition catalog (Switzerland, 2013); Art Limited (France, 2012, article about Weather Report exhibition in Preus Museum); Le Journal de la Photographie (France, 2012, article “Norway:Landscape photography exhibitions”);
New York Times, “The potato as Art and Instrument” (USA, 2012, review of the Potato Revolution show, by Aileen Jacobson); several publications in Norwegian press in connection with show in Preus Museum; Global Art Magazine (2012, USA, article “Important landscape photography exhibitions”); 3200 Quaterly (issue#2, 2012, USA); Slate Magazine (2012, USA, “Not Your Average Food Pics: Inspiration From Feast Your Eyes, the Garden of Eden and Beyond”, article by Heather Murphy); Interia360 (2012, review of Garden of Eden show by Marta Poltorak); Co Jest Grane/Gazeta Wyborcza (2012, review of Garden of Eden and Weather Report shows by Kamil Kudyba) ; photographs from Garden of Eden included in the catalog for NordArt Festival (2012, Germany); Der Greif Magazin (2012, Germany, artist feature); F-Stop Magazine issue # 53 (2012, photos from Weather Report); photos from Garden of Eden in catalog for Backlight Photography Festival, Finland (2011); Eikon Magazine, Austria (2011, photos from Garden of Eden), Die Nacht Magazine (2011, Germany, portfolio from Garden of Eden); Der Greif Magazin (2011, Germany, portfolio from Garden of Eden); F-Stop Magazine, USA (2011, portfolio from Garden of Eden); Ninja Magazine, France (2011, 6 pages portfolio from Garden of Eden); Front Magazine, Vancouver (2011, photos from Garden of Eden); Scopio Magazine, Portugal (2011 photos and story – After Notman); Huffington Post (2011, Photos, info on Garden of Eden project); Montreal Gazette (2010, review of After Notman exhibition),
Art Daily (2010, photos, info on Weather Report exhibition), Kingston Whig Standart (2010, photos, info on Weather Report Exhibition), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-century Photography (2006, paragraph on After Notman project); Montreal Review of Books (2004, After Notman book review, by Ian McGillis); Quebec Magazine (2004, photos, interview on After Notman project, by Adriana Palanca); The Gazette (2003, photos, After Notman exhibition review, by Kathryn Greenaway); La Presse (2003, photos, exhibition review, by Nicolas Bérubé); Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française (2003, review on After Notman book, by Yves Laberge); Globe and Mail (2003, review on After Notman book); Photo Editor (2003, review on After Notman book, by Sarah Stacy); Canadian Camera (2003, review on After Notman book, by Alasdair Gillis); Photographic
Canadiana (1999, photos, article, by Les Jones); Photo Communique (1987, photos, story)
Public and Corporate Collections
National Gallery of Canada – Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON, Canada
McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, QC, Canada
Museum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
Preus Museum (National Museum of Photography), Horten, Norway
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, QC, Canada
City of Ottawa Public Art Collection, Ottawa, ON, Canada
City of Toronto – Metro Toronto Parks and Recreation, Toronto, ON, Canada
TD Bank, Toronto, ON, Canada