Dariusz Strzebonski

Art does not happen on canvas. It happens inside the observer's mind.


The darkness in my works is a wall I build around them. Light does not illuminate — it lays bare what the figure would rather keep to themselves. In every painting, light is the other character.
Dariusz Strzeboński (b. 1984, Kraków, Poland). Lives and works in Wieliczka. Painting since 2021.

He depicts people observed in their most private moments and spaces marked by absence. His work draws on the tradition of silence and solitude in painting — the quiet interior and light as a carrier of mood — close to the sensibility of Vilhelm Hammershøi, Johannes Vermeer, and Edward Hopper, rooted in tenebrist, Baroque, and Renaissance chiaroscuro.

Strzeboński is an emerging presence on the Polish art scene: laureate of the Debiuty II competition at Galeria Sztuki Maya in Toruń (selected 21 out of 350+), exhibited at the Regional Museum in Skawina and auctioned through Pragaleria in Warsaw. Works held in the collection of the Regional Museum in Skawina.

2026 Solo exhibition, "What's left" Regional Museum, Skawina, PL
2026 "Debiuty II" Art Competition — laureate (21/350+), Maya Art Gallery, Toruń, PL
2026 Group exhibition, "Women in artists' eyes" Regional Museum, Skawina, PL
2025 Auction debut, Pragaleria, Warsaw, PL
2025 Group exhibition, SDK "SEM" Zgierz, PL
2025 Solo exhibition, "Life, soul, light: Skawina" Pałacyk Sokół, Skawina, PL
2024 Solo exhibition, "Life, soul, light: Krowodrza" Krakow Library branch no. 20, Krakow, PL
2024 Group exhibition, SDK "SEM", Zgierz, PL