Janusz Plota, Victory, 1997

oil on panel, 79.00 x 59.00 cm

Born 1957 in Miastko. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (today's Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk). He obtained his diploma in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Piotrowski in 1986. He earned his doctorate in 2014 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He works in painting, printmaking, performance art and is an installation artist, essayist and independent art curator. He created the Transit Art Formation in 1992, and is a recipient of several grants from the Ministry of Culture and Art. Major exhibitions include "Finding the City", Elektor Gallery, Mazovian Center for Culture and Art, Warsaw, 2004, "Janusz Plota" Bergdala Konstgalleri Sweden 2006, "Transit Document. Documentation of cross-border art" Ogarna Transit Gallery, 2005.