Michal Mráz

Michal Mráz (1987) is a self-taught painter. Despite studing at the department of sculpture (studio of Prof. Meliš and Doc. Hoffstadter) at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, painting has become the main medium of his artistic expression. His earlier work focused on a microcosm of urban spaces, derelict urban areas, dark hooded figures of protagonists of a street art community who, hiding their identity just like dark knights, wander through cities leaving their personal messages in the form of tags or graffiti.
In his practice Mráz cleverly mixes together the world of street culture and high art. This approach is reflected also in his technique - a combination of traditional oil and acrylic painting with stencils. His work is formally and thematically hybrid, often combining incongruous elements into one whole.
His older as well as latest work is characterised by a multiple-level narration. The intensity of his paintings lies within the simultaneous impact of the whole on the eye of a viewer; that restlessly wanders from one motif to another unable to "žcease". The restlessness, or some kind of inner uncertainty related to an impossibility to grasp (decode and understand) a seen reality oversaturated with visual...

2003-2007 study Shool of applied arts in Bratislava (Slovakia)
2007-2009 study Academy of fine arts and design in Bratislava,atelier J.Melisa
2009 study Academy of fine arts and design in Bratislava,atelier J.Hoffstädtera

Solo exhibitions :
2016-Time loop,Kirk Gallery,Aalborg,Denmark
2016-Decadence,Galerie ALB Anouk Le Bourdiec,Paris,France
2015-Overloading,Čin Čin gallery,Bratislava,Slovakia
2014-Disturbed,Čin Čin gallery,Bratislava,Slovakia
2013-Upstream,Gallery 23%,Bratislava,Slovakia
2012-Away from the system,Gallery X,Bratsialava,Slovakia
2011-The world is yours,European Center of Arts,Bratislava,Slovakia

Art Fairs:
2017-Art Miami (represented by Robert Fontaine Gallery)
2017-Scope Art Show Miami (represented by Kirk Gallery)
2017-Art Market Budapest (represented by Cin Cin gallery)
2017-Art Paris Art Fair (represented by Galerie ALB)
2017-North Art Fair (represented by Kirk Gallery)
2017-Art Wynwood (represented by Robert Fontaine Gallery)
2016-Context Art Miami (represented by Robert Fontaine Gallery)
2016-Art Copenhagen (represented by Kirk Gallery)
2016-North Art Fair (represented by Kirk Gallery)
2016-Art Paris Art Fair (represented by Galerie ALB)


Group exibitions :
2017-Interiority,Charlie Smith London,London,UK
2017-Mix 2017,Kirk Gallery,Aalborg,Denmark
2017-Time&Place,Robert Fontaine Gallery,Miami,US
2016-L’ART A DÉCIDÉ DE MA FAÇON DE VIVRE,Galerie ALB Anouk Le bourdiec,Paris,France
2016-Out in the open,Ki...