Thomas Lamprecht

Thomas [Tomek], Lamprecht born in Warsaw, Poland is an artist, writer and musician. Lamprecht began to study painting in 1969 at the Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts under the wing of professor Aleksander Kobzdej. After moving to New York in 1973 he studied at the School of Visual Arts with several prominent New York artists including Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Larry Zax and others. He graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in 1976. That same year he started his graduate studies at the Columbia University, Graduate School of the Arts in New York where he received his Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree in 1978. His chosen graduate advisers were, Richard Artschwager, Ronald Bladen and Les Levine. Lamprecht continued his post-graduate studies at Columbia completing his PhD candidacy in philosophy.

Primarily a painter, Lamprecht produced work in many different media that include performance, music, installations, film¬/video and digital art. His work has been shown in a variety of major venues throughout U.S. and Europe, including: Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Pompidou Center, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; OK Harris Gallery, New York; 112 Green Street Gallery, New York;...

MFA — Columbia University, NY
BFA — School of Visual Arts, NY

SELECTED ONE-PERSON SHOWS:

1975 S.V.A. Gallery, NY — paintings

1976 112 Green Street Gallery NY — paintings

1977 Columbia University Gallery, NY — PAINTING A PAINTING, installation, photography

1978 Kitchen, NY — YOU T.V. BETTER THAN DANCE, performance/video installation

1980 Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland — 2 YOUS, media performance/installation

Mazzo, Amsterdam, Holland — I AM RIGHT!, first art telecommunications performance (NYC—Amsterdam)

1981 New Morning, Geneva, Switzerland — DEPARTURE SYNDROME, media performance/installation

Centrum T’Hooht, Utrecht, Holland — DEPARTURE SYNDROME, media performance/installation

Kitchen, NY — BEFORE RELIGION, performance (music composition in collaboration with Michael Galasso, choreography in collaboration with Frank Conversano)

1982 Inroads Multimedia Center, NY — LOVE & HATE, media performance/installation

1992 PAAS, NY — PHOTO PORTRAITS, color photographs & hand writing

Rudolf Bonvie, Cologne, Germany — PROJECTIONS OF DREAM MONUMENTS SERIES, paintings

1993 Klein Brewer Gallery, NY — RELIGIOUS PIN-UPS SERIES, paintings

1996 Bill White Gallery, Williamsburg, NY — DEATH IMAGES, drawings

1998 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Williams...