Karl Rudziak

I am a figurative painter based in Portsmouth, UK with a focus on portraiture.

Over the past five years I have teamed up with Portsmouth City Council and Arts Council England for my project We Don’t Need Culture, creating works of Portsmouth residents in an attempt to encapsulate the community and cultural environment of the city.

My work resides in private and public hands, as part of Portsmouth city art collection and the Royal Navy, it has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery of Scotland, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Marine Artists and is featured in the book 500 portraits: BP Portrait Award by Sandy Nairn.

1994-96 BA Hons, Art, Design and Media, First Class, University of Portsmouth

GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS.

November - December 2023
Royal Institute of Oil painters
Mall Galleries, London

March 2022 - March 2023
Football Art Prize
Rochdale, Touchstones; Sheffield Millennium Gallery and Sunderland Museum and City Gardens

August 2020 - March 22
Portsmouth Revisited 2, Portsmouth City Museum

Oct 2021
Wilder Exhibition, Round Tower Old Portsmouth

Sept 2021
Royal Academy Summer Show, London

Aug 21
Portrait of Pompey, Solo Show Round Tower, Old Portsmouth

June 21
Interactive Weaves, Old Portsmouth

June 21
Pause, Reflect, Create Exhibition, Round Tower, Old Portsmouth

Dec 20
Advent Exhibition, Jackhouse Gallery, Old Portsmouth

Oct 20
Back and Fill Exhibition, Round Tower, Old Portsmouth

May 30 - 24 2019
D-Day Veterans from the Royal Collection, Portsmouth City Museum

May 14 - 24 2019
8 at the Edge group exhibition, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport

October 11 - 20 2018
Mall Galleries
Royal Society of Marine Artists, Annual exhibition, London

June 12 - Aug 19
2018 Royal Academy 250th Summer Show, London

April 2018 - May 2019
We Don’t Need Culture 3 Project with Arts Council England

April 2017 - May 2018
We Don’t Need Culture 2 Project with Arts Council England

April 2016 - April 2017
We Don’t Need ...