Ryszard Pielesz

I was born in 1961. I live in Poland. I am a graduate of the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. I graduated with honours in 1990. After graduation, I dealt with workshop graphics, I produce the cycles: “Requiem” and “Bitter Regrets”, my works were awarded at graphic competitions, including the International Print Triennial in Kraków, the Polish Print Triennial in Katowice, the International Print Triennial, the Copper Engraving Center in Lubin and the International Art Triennial at Majdanek. The years 1991–1997 are the period of cooperation with the "Lisse Bruun" gallery in Copenhagen. At that time, I produce the series of paintings: “Ecological letters”, “Objects”, “Remembered landscapes”. In the years 1992-1997, I was a member of the International Art Salon in Tokyo. Since 1998 I have been working at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences in Cieszyn Śląski in Katowice In 2005 I finalized my habilitation thesis, the subject of which was there were series of graphics entitled: “Tracers”, “Przestrzenie” and “Light”. In the years 2000-2019, I dealt with digital graphics. I have exhibited my works in galleries in Japan, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Fran...

elected individual exhibitions:

2021 
– "Ryszard Pielesz – Graphics", TCK, gallery "Przytyk", Tarnowskie Góry (PL)

2020 
– "Na Przekór", exhibition of posters, studio/gallery "Tocken", Radzionków (PL)

2015 
– "My mountains – graphics", ATH Academic Gallery, Bielsko-Biała (PL)

2012 
– "Graphics and photography", Art Exhibitions Office, Kielce (PL)

2011 
– "My Mountains", graphics exhibition, Provincial Public Library Witold Gombrowicz in Kielce (PL)
– "Graphics and Photography", Nowa Huta Cultural Center, Krakow (PL)

2008 
– "Traces", exhibition of graphics, gallery "Old Castle", Palace and Castle Complex, Żywiec (PL)

2007 
– Exhibition of graphics fri "Memory matrices", gallery "Przewiązka", Cieszyn (PL)

2006 
– Exhibition of paintings, Galeria MOK, Bieruń (PL)

2005 
– Exhibition of graphics entitled "Matrices of memory", gallery "Fra Angelico", Archdiocesan Museum, Katowice (PL)

2004 
– Exhibition of a series of graphics entitled "Trawers", "University Gallery", Art Institute, Cieszyn (PL)

2002 
– Exhibition of graphics, from the series "Landscapes remembered", gallery "Rotunda", Bytom (PL)

2000 
– Exhibition of graphics entitled "Landscapes remembered", gallery "Other Silesia", Ta...