Oil on canvas 100 x 40 cm
Łukasz Huculak, undoubtedly one of the most forward-thinking Polish painters.
Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, 2002. Employed at the academy since 2002; received his doctorate in 2009; since 2013 has been running a painting studio and heading the Interdepartmental Doctoral Studies.
Numerous scholarships, awards and prizes, including: Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 2000, 2004; First Prize of the 19th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, 2002; honorable mention in the national competition of the Biennale of Painting "Bielska Jesień", 2004.
Participation in more than 50 solo exhibitions in Poland and the Czech Republic, Germany and the USA, including: "Object and Space," City Gallery, Wrocław, 2002; "Ökonomie der kunst," Museum of Photography in Görlitz (Museum der Fotografie Görlitz), Görlitz, Germany, 2011; "Hypotheses and Hypostases," City Art Gallery, Łódź; Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, Stalowa Wola; BWA Rzeszów - Art Exhibition Office, Rzeszów, 2012; "Bad Women," City Museum (Městské muzeum), Zlate Hory, Czech Republic, 2015; "Details/Spaces," State Art Gallery, Sopot, 2015; "Incantations," Nysa County Museum, Nysa, 2016. Participation in more than 150 group exhibitions in Poland and in Romania, Germany, Spain, Holland, France, Russia, USA, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, including: "Falsche Erwartung," Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, 2005; "Polish Painting of the 21st Century," Zachęta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, 2006/2007; "Eroare de sistem" ("Error of the System"), Museum of Art (Muzeul de Artă Cluj -Napoca), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2015.
Works in private and public collections, among others: Wroclaw City Museum, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (MWW), National Museum in Gdansk, Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz, Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, Museum of Cultural History (Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz), Görlitz.
Curator, author of texts on art, editor of catalogs for exhibitions and publication of Surplus and Lack. Member of the Wrocław Academy of Young Scientists and Artists.
