Michal Szuszkiewicz (b. 1983, London), "I grabbed him by the neck and lifted him in friendship," 2015

Biography
In 2007 he defended his diploma at the Faculty of Painting of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, in the studio of Prof. Jaroslaw Modzelewski, and an appendix in lithography in the studio of Prof. W. Winiecki. In 2005, he was a scholarship recipient of the Socrates Erasmus program at the Universidad di Castilla la Mancha in Cuenca, Spain. Finalist: 9th edition of the Eugeniusz Geppert competition in Wroclaw (2009); 7th edition of the Fish Eye competition at the Baltic Gallery of Art (2013); "Showdown VII" competition held on Saatchi Online (2008). Winner of the Scholarship Program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Young Poland (2011) and recipient of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2015). His works can be found in many Polish and international collections, including the Dietrich Mateschitz Collection and the Luciano Benetton Collection: Imago Mundi collection.