oil, canvas, 160 x 80 cm
Blazej Ostoja Lniski
Works in painting, printmaking, mainly lithography, designing books, posters, typefaces.
In 1994-1999 he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he received a diploma with distinction in the studio of Prof. Rajmund Ziemski, and an annex in lithography from Prof. Władysław Winiecki. Since 1999 he has been professionally connected with his alma mater. In the years 2008-2012, head of the Part-time Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Vice-Dean of this Faculty, Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Arts in the terms 2012-2016 and 2016-2020. Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the term 2020-2024. He is the author of numerous individual exhibitions and participant in collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad ( including theMuseum of the Palace of King John III in Wilanów: Nature of the image, image of nature - painting exhibition , Warsaw 2022/23; Bulgarian Institute of Culture: Two Rectors in One Poster Exhibition, Warsaw 2022; International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, 2021; Palazzo Mora, Venice, Refuges of Images - painting exhibition organized by the GAA Foundation during the 58. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, 2019; Mazovia Institute of Culture, Gallery XXI: Place - painting exhibition, Warsaw 2018; Polish Institute in Sofia: Palimpsest Strategy - lithography exhibition, Bulgaria 2017; Historical and Ethnographic Museum, Gallery of Contemporary Polish Art: Ostoja Lniscy. Between Academia and Folk Art. A family double voice on art - a multidisciplinary exhibition, Chojnice 2015; Test Gallery: Become a window - a painting exhibition, Warsaw 2013; Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art: Writing, figure, repetition - painting exhibition, Slupsk 2012; Orangerie Gallery of Contemporary Art - painting exhibition, Warsaw/Jablonna 2011; Polish Institute in Stockholm - lithography exhibition, 2004). Member of the Honorary Committee of the Jubilee of the Reconstruction of the Royal Castle in Warsaw and the Council of the Research Center for Warsaw Culture at Warsaw University, Judge of the Competition Jury of the International Architectural and Urban Design Competition for the architectural concept of the reconstruction of the Saski Palace, Member of the Program Council of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw. Winner of awards and prizes, among others: Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Award (2008); Warsaw's Best Graphics of the Month competition; PTWK (2021) for the Most Beautiful Book of the Year 2010 - Władysław Winiecki - The Great Vaudeville, and Honorary Award of the Society of Polish Bibliophiles; PTWK (2014) for the Most Beautiful Book of the Year 2013 - Marian Murawski. Illustrations. In 2015, he received the 2015 Fredro's Pen Statuette for The Carpathian World of Boykos and Lemkos. Roman Reinfuss. Photographs in the National Editorial Contest for the Best Book of the Year in Wroclaw and the PEGAZ Statuette - Award of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, as well as the PTWK award for the Most Beautiful Book of the Year 2017 - Jacek Dyrzynski - painting.
