RESUME
Name: Mirosław Struzik
E-mail: ms@struzik.art.pl
Website: www.struzik.art.pl
Miroslaw Struzik was born in 1956 in Poland. He graduated of Academy of Fine Arts, acquiring the title Master of fine Arts in the Faculty of Sculpture.
In 1990 he received scholarship from the Minister of Culture and Arts in Poland.
In 2005 he received Sugarman Foundation Award, USA.
In 2009 he won first price in public art project competition for Memorial of Gratitude to World War II Victims, Opoczno Poland.
In 2011 he won the contest for sculpture realization in Futura Park Krakow - Poland.
In 2012 he have won a first price for commision, appointed by the City of Ballart’s Public Art Advisory Committee- Australia.
He takes part in many exhibitions, among others in XII Bienniale Internazionale Dantesca, Ravena, Italy, the exhibition in European Union Parliament in Strasbourg, France, participation in the 8th Annual International Juried Art Exhibition, Visions VIII at the Cathedral Foundation in Covington, KY, USA.
He designs and creates sculptures in Public Areas, for example series of sculptures for the Municipal Botanic Garden of Wrocław University, realization of sculpture for Wrocław Airport, realization of sculptures for the Spanish shopping centre Factory in Poland, realization of the sculpture entitled Adam and Eve for the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park in Chicago, USA.
In 2008 he took part in World Art Vision exhibition in Cancun, Mexico.
In 2009 he took part in 'Sculpture in Context' exhibition in National Botanic Garden, Dublin.
He had his works published in:
Crafts Art International - No 71/2007,
Sculpture No10 2008,
Masters 2009
Trends Contemporary Artists 2009,
NY Arts 2009,
World Wide Art Book 2010,
‘Featured artists' - vol. II 2010.
‘500 x art in public’ (Braun Publ,shing 2011),
World of Architecture No7 2011 (polish version)
Art in Vogue 2012 (coming now)
| 2012 | 1st award in Public Art Competition – George Hotel, Ballarat, Australia |
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| 2009 | 1st award in Public Art Competition – Memorial of Gratitude, Opoczno, Poland; |
| 2005 | Sugarman Foundation Award; |
| 2004 | Award in a competition to make a sculpture of St. Hedvig, Niemcza, Poland; |
| 2001 | Third prize in the competition "Sacrum - Today" - Kielce, Poland; |
| 1990 | Scholarship from the Minister of Culture and Arts, Poland; |
| 1989 | Master of fine Arts (the Faculty of Sculpture in the studio of professor Leon Podsiadły); |
| 1987 | An author’s certificate (the invention nr 213006) granted by the National Patent Office; |
| 1984-1989 | Studies at Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts, Poland; |
| - ZREMB Wrocław- at designing housing machines and appliances; | |
| - Organika Rokita" Engineering Office - at designing the chemical installations; | |
| - "Hydral" Polish Aerial Institutes - at the studio of design; | |
| - Turnery Machines Factory in Wrocław - at designing the machine tools prototypes; | |
| 1976-1984 | Work for several engineering offices: |
| 1976 | Graduation from the Technical School of Mechanics, specialization: casting and metalwork with machine cutting; |
| 1956 | Born in Żarów, Poland |
MAIN EXHIBITIONS:
| 2011 | Participation in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Polish Artists Association |
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| 2011 | “Premio internacionale Toyo”, Amart Luise gallery in Bruxells, Belgium |
| 2010 | Open Art Code – participating in exhibition, GemlucArt, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 2010 | Open Art Code – participating in exhibition, OXO Gallery, London, GB |
| 2009 | Sculpture in context – taking part in exhibition in National Botanic Garden, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2009 | Individual exhibition in Vratislavia Centre, Wroclaw, Poland |
| 2008 | 10th International Triennale of Religious Art in Cracow, Poland |
| 2008 | Exhibition of 100th anniversary of Hungarian Polonia in Budapest, Hungary |
| 2008 | Participation in World Art Vision in Cancun, Mexico |
| 2008 | Taking part in exhibition of artistic milieu in Ossolineum, Wroclaw, Poland |
| 2007 | The Eucharist and Freedom |
| 2006 | Participation in the Other Media exhibition |
| 2005 | Individual exhibition at the Mercure Hotel in Wrocław |
| 2004 | Opening ceremony of an individual exhibition in the Municipal Botanic Garden of Wrocław University, Poland |
| 2004 | XI Biennial Exhibition of Religious Art, Gorzów, Poland |
| 2004 | Participation in the exhibition " Wrocław Priesthood of Creative Environment Twentieth Anniversary", the Museum of the Archdiocese in Kraków, Poland |
| 2003 | Participation in the exhibition "Wrocław Priesthood of Creative Environment Twentieth Anniversary", the Museum of the Archdiocese in Wrocław, Poland |
| 2002 | Participation in the post-competition exhibition "The Primate of the Millennium", the Museum of the Archdiocese in Warsaw, Poland |
| 2002 | The exhibition in European Union Parliament in Strasbourg, France |
| 2000 | "Euro Art Meeting Festival Wrocław 2000", (plastic arrangement of space Wrocław) |
| 1998 | Participation in VII Triennial of Religious Sculpture,g Kraków, Poland |
| 1998 | The Exhibition "Dante in Polish Art", Warsaw, Poland |
| 1996 | XII Bienniale Internazionale Dantesca, Ravena, Italy |
| 1992 | The International Bienniale of the Religious Art "Sacrum 92", Opole, Poland |
| 1992 | The exhibition of The Association of Polish Plastic Artists, Wrocław, Poland |
| 1991 | Individual exhibition in the Art Exhibition Office in Wrocław, Poland |
| 1990 | Post-scholarship exhibition in the Art Exhibition Office in the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland |
SCULPTURES IN PUBLIC AREAS:
| 2011 | Realization of 3 sculptures for Futura Park in Cracow, Poland. |
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| 2011 | Realization of memory array of Polish director Stanislaw Lenartowicz, Wroclaw, Poland |
| 2010 | Realization of Memorial of Gratitude to World War II Victims, Opoczno, Poland |
| 2009 | Sculpture in context – taking part in exhibition in National Botanic Garden, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2008 | Realization of sculpture for the Factory Outlet II shopping mall in Wrocław |
| 2007 | Realization of the Adam and Eve sculpture for the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park in Chicago, USA |
| 2007 | Realization of two sculptures for the Factory Outlet shopping mall in Luboń near Poznań |
| 2006 | Realization of two sculptures for the Factory Outlet shopping mall in Wrocław |
| 2005 | Realization of sculpture for Wrocław Airport |
| 2004 | A project and realization of making the St. Hedwig’s Chapel for Caritas of Archdiocese, Wrocław |
| 2001-2004 | A cycle of sculptures for the Municipal Botanic Garden of Wrocław University |
| 1989 | Design and realization of a sculpture in front of the "Centrostal" office building in Wrocław |