Borys Makary

Visual artist. Deals with conceptual, creative and commenting reality art. In his work, mainly uses photography, but also creates installations. More and more often uses the video. Graduate of the University of Arts Faculty of Multimedia Communication in Poznań. Defended the PhD in Visual Arts supervised by prof. Grzegorz Przyborek at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Learnt photography from Miles Aldridge and at the International Centre of Photography in New York City (NY, USA). Former assistant to Richard Warren, a fashion photographer. Has presented his works in Poland and abroad at individual exhibition in based in Paris Claude-Samuel gallery, and at group exhibition in NUE Gallery, and at collective exhibition FOTOFEVER at the Musee du Louvre, among others. Has also presented his works on individual exhibition in La Maison de la Photographie in Lille and in Lille Grand Palais. Has participated in the WeArt (Barcelona, Spain) and Photo Independent (Los Angeles, CA, USA) festivals. Since 2012, has received many awards of international photography contests in the USA and in Europe, including three medals at the Prix de la Photographie Paris for advertising campaigns as well as his own projects. Has published in many photographic ...

PhD in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
Master of Arts in Visual Arts graduate from the Faculty of Multimedia Communications & Photography
at the University of Arts, Poznan (Academy of Fine Arts).

Individual Exhibitions:

2021 – “NxN”, FF Gallery / Łódź, Poland
2019 – „They”, NUE Galerie / Valencia, Spain
2019 – “2460376”, FOTO-GEN Gallery / Wrocław, Poland
2019 – “2460376”, Imaginarium Gallery / Łódź, Poland
2017 – “Connection, They were” / La Maison de la Photographie / Lille, France
2017 – “Le factice” / Lille Grand Palais / Lille, France
2017 – “Unseen dialogues” / Andel’s Art Gallery / Kraków, Poland
2016 – “Le factice”, Skałeczna^5 Gallery / Kraków, Poland
2016 – “They were, Connection”, Galerie Claude Samuel / Paris, France
2016 – “Polish misia”, Galerie Claude Samuel / Paris, France
2015 – “Polish misia”, Marchołt Gallery / Katowice, Poland
2015 – “They were”, NEY Gallery / Warsaw, Poland
2014 – “Polish misia / Lick your teddy”, Ptapty Gallery / Poznań, Poland
2014 – “Borys Makary”, Nizio Interior Gallery / Warsaw, Poland
2014 – “Polish misia / Lick your teddy”, Imaginarium Gallery / Łódź, Poland
2014 – “Polish misia / Lick your teddy”, Prodesign Gallery / Kraków, Poland
2013 – “Carpe diem”, FF Gallery / Łódź, Poland
2013 – “Borys Makary”, Prodesign Gallery / Kraków, Poland
2012 – “Carpe diem”, Pauza Gallery / Kraków, Poland

Group exhibitions:

2020 – “How deep is your Love”, Espace Oppidum /...