Aleksandra Jarosz Laszlo

Jarosz Laszlo received her BA (hons) Fine Art from CSM and her MFA from Konstfack.
BP Portrait Award (2006), The Columbia Threadneedle Prize (2010), Celeste Prize (2010) finalist. One of 150 long-listed for I Am Solitary - London, Beers.Lambert contemporary 2011.
She received The Special Prize Art Gallery at Arte Laguna Prize (2013). Awarded with a Working Grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee in 2010 and Webers/Ribbing/Beskow Grant from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 2016.

In her on-going conceptual series “Negotiating authenticity. In search of an ideal“ Jarosz Laszlo uses painting to explore the perspectives, circumstances and philosophical undertones of the specific location and tradition. She examines our need for myths by creating historical hybrids within her works. Legends and facts are mixed up; we can no longer separate them. We lack the knowledge, which we have lost. History is not static or complete. How can we be sure that it is genuine? And how can we measure it? We repeat it and take it for granted.

We take over the customs, practices, and traditions from the past generations and allow them to live on in our culture. But who owns tradition and who interprets it? Tradition, folk stori...

2014 - 2016 MFA Konstfack

2014 Introduction to Artistic Research, Konstfack

1997-2000 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Byam Shaw at Central Saint Martins

1996-1997 Diploma in Architecture and Urban Design, Foundation Course, 
The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for the Built Environment

1993- 1999 MA Film and TV Production, Silesian University

Solo Exhibitions and Projects

2016 " Face Negotiation", Galleri Hörnan, Falun

2015 "Negotiating Authenticity", Fine Arts Master Exhibition, Konstfack Galleri

2015 "The Tacit Dimension", Rättviks konsthall

2014 "Face Negotiation", Student Union Gallery, Konstfack

2014 "Vi lämnar avtryck", Tällbergs skola, Statens konstråd

2014 Home, Society's Best Asylum, 7th International Arte Laguna Prize, The Special Prize Art Gallery,
Galleria L'Occhio/Venice/Italy

2013 "Aesthetic as idenity", Galleria “Clou – Circolo d’arte contemporanea”, Ragusa/ Italy, Curator: Francesco Lucifora

2012 “Transformation”, Jan Walmark Gallery, Stockholm

2010 "Alias Maria Johansson", Konsthall C, Centrifug, Stockholm

2007 IASPIS-Work in fokus , Stockholm

2006 “The space between”, Edsvik Konsthall , Stockholm

2005 "Dreamworld", Dalarnas Museum, Appendix, Falun

2004 “Mamma”, Leksands Konstmuseum , Leksand

2003 “Society beauties from every dacade”, Polska Institutet , Stockholm



Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 Stipendiatutställningen, Konstakademien/The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm

2016 Moving Art Project,Stockholm, Falun, Karlstad, Växjö, Jönköping, Malmö, Göteborg, Östersund

2015 "Hungry Eyes", Gal...