Michael Slusakowicz

Michael Slusakowicz works predominantly in painting, drawing and video. Specifically, in painting, Michael produces work in sequential series. His work confronts us with a paranormal mystery in each painting. He wishes to capture the intimate moments of time, like the flicker of the candle lit flame. Michael’s supernatural figures and esoteric objects almost seem invisible from the choice of an analogous colour palette, but with careful investigation one can reveal their embodied cognition. The imagery often penetrates a veiled side of contemporary society; it searches for the pure core of humanity with its dark and bright aspects, it’s needs and desires, and it's braveness and fears.

Slusakowicz’s latest collection of paintings, enigmatically called in Spanish “HUESOS IMPÍOS” further explores his continuous interest in colour and mood. Slusakowicz believes in the purity of creativity in the moment and follows it without a questioning. “Random images come to my mind in the process, that I can only describe as a channelling”. Through working in this way Slusakawicz taps into this subconscious dream world both familiar and removed from reality. These spontaneously composed paintings interact with each other through key, tonality...

2008-2011 BA Painting,Camberwell College of Arts/University of the Arts London
2007-2008 Artist in Residence/Manchester College of Art and Technology
2006-2007 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design/Manchester College of Art and Technology

2021
SUMMER EXHIBITION / THE GALLERY AT GREEN AND STONE / LONDON / UK

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS ANNUAL EXHIBITION / MALL GALLERIES / LONDON / UK

HUESOS ÍMPIOS / CORNUCOPIA GALLERY / LONDON / UK

2020
THE OFFERINGS 1 / CORNUCOPIA GALLERY / LONDON / UK

2014
Video screening of ‘Isle of the Dead/Revisited’ as a part of Derek Jarman retrospective / NATIONAL CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS (NCCA) / MOSCOW / RUSSIA

‘ANTHOLOGY 2014’ finalist / CHARLIE SMITH LONDON /LONDON / UK

SCALE OF EXAGGERATION / GALERIA MATERNA Y HERENCIA / MADRID / SPAIN

2013
OFF ART FAIR / BRUSSELS / BELGUM
Art Fair

CANDID ARTS EXHIBITION / CANDID ARTS TRUST / LONDON / UK
Group show

2012
ARTEPOLACO / GALERIA FERNANDO HERENCIA / MADRID / SPAIN
Solo Show.

MINIMAL EXCESS / OPENEALING ART PROJECT SPACE / LONDON / UK
Group show

EVERYTHING - VOX POP / INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS / LONDON / UK
Performance ‘The Meaning of the Absence’ as a part of the group show.

FIRST TIME / GalleryHackPH / LONDON / UK
Group show.


2011
PECKHAM PARADISE / PECKHAM HOTEL / LONDON / UK
Group show.

BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE / NEW GALLERY LONDON / LONDON / UK
Solo Show.

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