Kenneth Jaworski

Born in Buffalo, New York in 1966
Living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands since 2000

Kenneth Jaworski has always known he was an artist. As a boy of 10 years old he was already painting and drawing, inspired not only by Mad Magazine and legendary comic book artists such as Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby, but also by artists he saw at Buffalo’s Albright Knox Art Gallery; Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Richard Serra, and Ellsworth Kelly, amongst others. “To live near that museum was a gift”, he says. "It was really part of my education and understanding as an artist".

Jaworski’s parents didn’t encourage his desire to make art because ‘he wouldn’t be able to make a proper living of it’ so, he studied English literature in University, toying with the idea of going into Academics or Law; ‘proper professions’. However, after graduation, Jaworski became a Graphic Designer. With art still very much part of who he was, and a deep desire to create, he returned to the studio in 1998 and made art in earnest, resulting in several group shows and a critically-acclaimed solo show in September 2000 in Buffalo. Later in 2000 he moved to The Netherlands. While he came here for love, after the relationship broke up,...

BA, English Canisius College
Self-taught in both Fine Art and Interior Architecture

New Works & Select Prints
11 October ~ 30 November 2018
The Modern: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Wardrobe ~ A Selection
1 September ~ 31 October, 2018
Sammelwut: Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The Wardrobe Series: Select Works on Paper
11 November 2016- 6 January 2017
MSCOC: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dialogue & Division- Recent works on paper
2 September ~ 30 September, 2016
St. Vincents: Antwerp, Belgium

Featured April 2014 in the Affordable Originals for $2000 and Under Collection- Saatchi Online

Chosen 2013: Best work of the week- Saatchi Online

Group exhibition "Sex Crime & Comedy"
May 2001
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Solo exhibition
September 2000
Luminous Gallery: Buffalo, New York

Group exhibition
January 2000
Luminous Gallery: Buffalo, New York