Sylwia Tur

Sylwia Tur was born and raised in Poland. After moving to the United States in her late teens, she continued to study linguistics, while discovering her passion for art. Amid working towards a Ph.D. in linguistics she could no longer ignore her desire for art-making. She thus decided to pursue art full-time while completing a post-baccalaureate studies in ceramics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tur is interested in language, architecture, and design, distilled to their basic components of organization, grid, proportion, and reduction.
Modernism, minimalism, and brutalist architecture, growing up in communist Poland, seeing the rise of solidarity and observing the country undergo political, social, and economic changes, have all shaped her perception and aesthetics.
Sylwia’s artwork is in private and public collections in Australia, France, Poland, and the US. In addition to her art practice, she works as a linguist, a field from which she continues to draw inspiration.

2006 Post-baccalaureate, Studio Art: Ceramics, University of Washington, Seattle
2004-2006 PhD Program, Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle
2004 Master of Arts, Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle
1998 Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle
1992-1993 Master’s Program, Polish Philology, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsaw, Poland

Solo Exhibitions:
2016 Oscillations, Featured Objects, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA; curated by Jennifer Navva Milliken
2016 Image Space, Gallery4Culture, Seattle, WA
2016 angles, lines, and solids, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Mapping, Monarch Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2008 Raw, Pottery Northwest Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Language Builds, Featured Objects, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA; curated by Stefano Catalani
2007 Sample Points, Pottery Northwest Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Architecture of Language, Ceramics Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Group Exhibitions:
2017 Microsoft Collection Art Exhibition, Redmond, WA
2016 Everyone’s in 3D, Alice Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Give Gallery, The Bureau of Arts & Culture, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
Out of Sight, concurrent with Seattle Art Fair, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
In Sight, concurrent with Seattle Art Fair, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Artist Trust Juried Art Auction, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Collection Art Exhibition, Redmond, WA
2015 Arsenal, Seattle Storefronts, a program of Shunpike, Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA
NEPO 5k Don’t Run – 111 Attention Cups, Seattle, WA
2014 Making and Breaking, Linda Hodges G...