Bartosz Beda

Born in Poland in 1984, Bartosz Beda is an internationally exhibiting artist whose work investigates the shifting boundaries of figurative representation and the archaeology of the painted surface. Currently based in Dallas, Texas, Beda’s practice spans over two decades of rigorous technical and conceptual exploration.

After graduating with an MA in Fine Art from the Manchester School of Art in 2011, Beda was named by the BBC as a "one to watch" and selected for the Catlin Art Guide as one of the most promising artists in the UK. His early career was marked by high-level institutional recognition, including being short-listed for the Saatchi New Sensations exhibition in London and winning the esteemed Towry Award for the Best of North of England.

Beda’s international presence is supported by several prestigious fellowships and scholarships, including a six-month residency at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, Germany, and a 2016 fellowship at the Fondazione Per L’Arte in Rome, Italy. In 2018, he completed a residency at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts (Pennsylvania), and most recently, in 2025, he was awarded the Edwards Trust Art Residency, culminating in a significant solo exhibition at Angelo State University.

With a career...

2011-2012 Manchester Metropolitan University, MA Fine Arts, UK
2008-2011 Manchester Metropolitan University, BA Fine Arts, First Class Honours, UK
1999-2003 Private Secondary Art School in Lodz, Poland

Selected Solo exhibitions
2026 TBA, solo exhibition, Triangle Gallery, Ohio, USA
2025 Echoes Vitae, solo exhibition, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX, USA
2023 Echoes of Seasons, solo exhibition, Collin College Gallery, Plano, TX, USA
2023 Owing to the Absence, art in residence solo exhibition, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2022 Two Minutes Before Midnight, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2020 Paper Gallery, two-person show, Manchester, UK
2020 Particular Tie-In, Mesquite Arts Center, two-person show, Mesquite, TX, USA
2019 Paramount of Eternity, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX, USA
2019 Ten Starts From One, Hopkins Center for the Arts Redepenning Gallery, Hopkins, MA, USA
2018 Ten Starts From One, Mildred M. Cox Gallery, Fulton, MO, USA
2017 Beneath Surface, Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, three person exhibition, Florida, USA
2016 Here My Voice, Marmot Art Space, Spokane, Washington, USA
2016 Feeling Good About Things, New School House Gallery, York, UK
2014 Blast of Absolute, BAC Bogota Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
2014 Revision of Displacement, Galeria Bogota, Nogales School, Bogota, Colombia
2014 State of Escape, The Studios, New Mills, UK
2013 Myriad of Alterity, Liebre Gallery, Madrid, Spain...