Born November
7, 1951, Warsaw, Poland
Permanent resident of United States since 1988
Education
1970-75 MFA Painting and Art in Architecture, Warsaw Academy
of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
1969-70 Warsaw University, Biology Department, Warsaw, Poland
Selected
One-person Exhibitions
2011
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2010
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek and Rainer Gross, Alpha Gallery,
Boston, MA
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, an installation by Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek with panel discussion
and lecture about the artist work moderated by Richard Brilliant with
Linda
Norden, Dominique Nahas and James McCorkle, Consulate General of the
Republic
of Poland, New York, NY
2009
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek- an installation, poetry by James
McCorkle and Anna
Frajlich, in collaboration with Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Democracy Center,
Cambridge, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Roshkowska Gallery, Windham, NY
2007/08
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2006
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek an installation with panel discussion
about the artist work
moderated by Donald Kuspit, with Robert C. Morgan, Richard Brilliant,
and Saul
Ostrow, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, New York, NY
2005/04
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Pool Art Fair, Art Addict, Four Points Hotel, Chelsea, curated
by Robert Knafo,
New York, NY
2003
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, 7th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show,
Boston, MA
Roshkowska Gallery, Windham, NY
2002
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College,
Oneonta, NY
2001
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
The Gallery at the Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College,
Wenham, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Shillam + Smith 3 Gallery, London, England
2000
Loughborough University Art Gallery, Loughborough, England
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1999
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH
Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH
1997
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
1991/92
John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts, William Patterson University,
Wayne, NJ
1986
Henock Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Vodra Hall Gallery, Jersey City State College, Jersey City, NJ
1981
BWA Gallery, Lomza, Poland
1980
Depolma Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1979
Radom Museum, Radom, Poland
Express Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
BWA Gallery, Opole, Poland
BWA Gallery, Koszalin, Poland
1978
TPSP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1975
Medyk Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1974
Sigma Gallery, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2011
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Accrochage, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Winter Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2009
Détournement, International Artists Museum Project:
Souvenir Art/Markers 7, a
collateral event of the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009, Scala Mata Gallery,
Venice, Italy
Art Athina International Art Fair, Athens, Greece
Accrochage, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2008
International Art Fair, Art 2008, The Park Avenue Armory, New
York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Art20 2007, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago, 2007, Chicago, IL
International Art Fair, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2006
Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago, 2006, Chicago, IL
The Art Show, sponsored by the Art Dealers Association of America,
New York, NY
2005
International Art Fair - Art 2005, The Park Avenue Armory, New
York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
San Francisco International Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2004
Art of the 20th Century: The International Art Fair 2004, New
York, NY
Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Wandering Library, Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2 x 2 x 2, Grimshaw Gudewicz Art Gallery, Jackson Art Center,
Fall River, MA
The Art Show, sponsored by the Art Dealers Association of America,
New York, NY
2003
Banners III, Projectives-Artists Museum, Lubbock,
TX
Wandering Library Project of the International Artists
Museum in Venice, 50th
Venice Biennale 2003, Venice, Italy
Wandering Library Project travels to: City of Meinz,
Germany, United Nations
Center, Alexandria, Egypt, Jerusalem, Israel
Art of the 20th Century: The International Art Fair, New York,
NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
International Art Fair, Athens, Greece
Art Chicaco, 2003, Chicago, IL
San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2002
International Art Fair, Art of the 20th Century,
New York, NY
Margins of Abstraction: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Sean Scully,
Joan Witek, Juan
Uslé, curated by Robert Knafo, Kouros Gallery, New York,
NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
T.W. Wood Museum, Montpelier, VT
Florence Griswold Museum, Lyme, CT
Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH
The Art Show, Art Dealers Assoc. of America, 7th
Regiment Armory, New York, NY
The Armory, New York, NY
The Abstract Mind, New England Gallery, New England
College, Hanniker, NH
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago 2001, Chicago, IL
7th Regiment Armory, Art Dealers Association of America, New
York, NY
2001
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago 2001, Chicago, IL
7th Regiment Armory, Art Dealers Association of America, New
York, NY
2000
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Painting Abstraction, curated by Cindy Schwab, New
York Studio School, New York, NY
Art Chicago 2000, Chicago, IL
You Cant Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, Kabakov,
Ksiazek, Le, Softic, Tiscornia,
Philadelphia Art Alliance, curated by Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Philadelphia,
PA
7th Regiment Armory, Art Dealers Association of America, New
York, NY
1999
The Ninth Triennial, Fuller Museum, curated by Carl
Belz, Brockton, MA
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
You Cant Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, Kabakov,
Ksiazek, Le, Softic, Tiscornia,
curated by Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro,
VT
The Armory, New York, NY
International Art Fair, Palm Beach, FL
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Libertè 98 traveling European exhibition
sponsored by the United Nations
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
The Armory, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1997
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Co-Existence, Construction in Process V, Mizpe Ramon,
Israel
1993
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
My Home is Your Home, Construction in Process IV,
Lodz, Poland
Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Slow Art, Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum,
The Institute for Contemporary
Art, curated by Allana Heiss, Long Island City, NY
1991
Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1987
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
George Cesicle Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1986
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1985
Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY
1983
Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
East Wing Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Galeria Principal, La Romana, DR
1982
International Artist Society, Okinawa - Yamakataya, Japan
Arthur Charles Gallery, Washington, DC
Abraham Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY
1982/81
Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Prefectural Cultural Hall, Fukuoka, Japan
Prefectural Cultural Hall, Nara, Japan
1981/80
Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Monte Carlo Museum, Monte Carlo, Monaco
BWA Gallery, Sopot, Poland
Radom Museum, Radom, Poland
1980
Bremen Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
Cologne Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
1979
Depolma Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Lubeca Kunsthalle, Lubeca, Germany
Warexpo Exhibition Hall, Warsaw, Poland
1978
ZPAP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Warexpo Exhibition Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Radom Museum, Radom, Poland
BWA Gallery, Radom, Poland
1977
Radom Museum, Radom, Poland
1976
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Gallery MDM, Warsaw, Poland
Stara Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
BWA Gallery, Rzeszow, Poland
Monographic Publications
2011
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Texts by Eleanor Heartney, Suzanne
Stroebe, Introduction
by James Montford, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY and Bannister Gallery,
Rhode
Island College, Providence, RI
(ISBN 978-0-615-44938-8)
2010
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek. Possibility of understanding-paintings 1990-2010,
Authors:
Richard Brilliant, Linda Norden, Dominique Nahas, James McCorkle, published
by
BLURB
2003
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Essays by Karen Wilkin and Joe Fyfe,
published by Alpha
Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Essay by David Pagel, Introduction
by Amy Ingrid Schlegel,
Preface by Jason Andrew, published by Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Paintings 1990-2001, Texts by Richard
Brilliant and Robert
C. Morgan, introduction by Bruce Herman, The Gallery at the Barrington
Center for
the Arts and Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, published by Gordon College,
Wenham,
MA, (ISBN 0-9707487-2-8; Library of Congress # 2002449207)
2000
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Think of It, Texts by Dominique Nahas,
Saul Ostrow, and
Mark Harris, published by Loughborough University Art Gallery, Loughborough,
England, (Library of Congress # 2002449210)
1999
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Hostage, Texts by David Moos and James
McCorkle, published
by Kouros Gallery, New York, NY, (Library of Congress # 2002449209)
1998
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Paintings, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss
Galleries, Hopkinson Center,
Text by Donald Kuspit, published by Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
(Library of Congress # 2002449208)
1997
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: A Vigil of Time, Essay by James McCorkle,
published by
Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York, NY
Selected
Articles, Essays, Interviews, Reviews
2011
Eleanor Heartney, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek Paintings,
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY and Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island Collage,
Providence, RI, catalogue essays
Suzanne Stroebe, Terrible Beauty: The Paintings of Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY and Bannister Gallery, Rhode
Island Collage, Providence, RI, catalogue essays
Greg Cook, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at The Bannister Gallery,
The Providence Phoenix, Providence, RI, review
Cathleen Williams, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at the Bannister
Gallery, The Anchor, Providence, RI, review
David Craven, Brian Wenkenweder, "Dialectical conversions
: Donald Kuspits Art Criticism", Liverpool Univercity Press,
book
2010
Richard Brilliant Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at The Polish Consulate
of the Republic of Poland, New York, NY, brochure essay
James McCorkle -Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Kouros Gallery
New York, NY, brochure essay
Richard Brilliant, "Wlodzimierz Ksiazek. Possibility of
Understanding", published by Blurb
Dominique Nahas, "Wlodzimierz Ksiazek. Possibility of Understanding",
published by Blurb
Lindaa Nordon, "Wlodzimierz Ksiazek. Possibility of Understanding",
published by Blurb
James McCorkle, "Wlodzimierz Ksiazek. Possibility of Understanding",
published by Blurb
James McCorkle, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Kouros Gallery
New York, NY
2009
Elisabeth Sarah Gluckstein, Appointments with Memory,
Doron Polak and Esti Drori Creating an Artistic Documentation
of Memory, Culture Kiosk / Souvenir Art / Markers 7, Venice Biennale
2009, book
Karen Wilkin, At the Galleries: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek,
The Hudson Review, review
Robert Knafo, Archeological Abstractions: An Interview
with Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, NewArt TV, video
Olga Zapisek, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Kouros Gallery,
Chic Today, feature article
Jonathan Goodman, Surface and Depth: the Recent Painting
of Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, brochure essay
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Possibilities of Understanding,
NY Arts Magazine, article
Linda Chestney, Home is Where the Art is, New Hampshire
Home, feature article 2008
TISH: EARTH Symposium, Angel Orensanz Foundation,
New York, NY
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, possibility of Understanding,
catalogue
A.C. Frabetti, Layered Mimesis: Seeing the Artwork of Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek ArtsEditor, feature article
Once or a Thousand Times, panel discussion with Wendy
Gittler, moderator, Cora Cohen, John Hartman, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Kyle
Staver, The Art Students League, New York, NY, The Artists Proof, New
York Artists Equity Association, Inc., feature article
Czeslaw Chaplinski and Benedykt Jerzy Dorys, Polish Artists of
the Last Century,
book publication of the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
2007
James McCorkle, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Between a Shattered
World, brochure essay
Matthew Baigell, Jewish Art in America, book
2006
John K. Grande, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Current Paintings,
brochure essay
Donald Kuspit, A Critical History of Twentieth Century Art, ArtNet
Magazine
William Corbett, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Alpha Gallery,
ArtsMedia, review
2005
Cate McQuaid, Wall to Wall: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Alpha
Gallery, Boston Globe, review
Meredith Goldstein, Quick Picks, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at
Alpha Gallery, Boston Globe, review
Robert Knafo, Marked Ground: New Work by Wlodzimierz Ksiazek,
SV-Studio Visit, online magazine, feature article
Donald Kuspit, Sustaining Abstraction, ArtNet Magazine,
feature article
Ferdynand Rusczczyc, Marek Kwiatkowski, Jerzy Huczkowski, Boguslaw
Winid, Czeslaw Czaplinski, Polish Art Collections in America, published
by Fundacja Dobrej Ksiazki, book
Robert C. Morgan, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Kouros Gallery,
ArtNews, review
Robert Knafo, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Body and Soul,
brochure essay
Donald Kuspit, Wlodzimierz Ksiazeks Abstract Paintings,
brochure essay
Czeslaw Czaplinski, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek in New York City,
Gazeta Antykwaryczna
Czeslaw Karkowski, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Kouros Gallery,
Polish Cultural Weekly
2004
Christopher Chambers, December Picks, NY Arts Magazine,
review
Deborah Garwood, Saturnian Beauty: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek
Paintings of 2003- 2004, brochure essay
Robert Knafo, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, KMAP on-line magazine,
article
Robert Knafo, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Art Addict, New
York, NY, catalogue essay
2003
Karen Wilkin, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Alpha Gallery,
Boston, MA, catalogue essay
Joe Fyfe, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Alpha Gallery, Boston,
MA, catalogue essay
Pamela Grenside, The Wandering Library, 50th Venice
Biennale 2003, review, trACE on-line magazine
Randy Adams, The Wandering Library, 50th Venice Biennale,
2003, review, trACE on-line magazine
Danielle Knafo, Living with Terror, Working with Trauma: A Clinicians
handbook
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, In Press, Art reproduction
James McCorkle, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Roshkowska Gallery,
Windham, NY, brochure essay
Wandering Library; Temporary Edition: Markers IV: An Artist
Books Event to Mark The Venice Biennale 2003, (Published by The
International Artists Museum, 2003) Essays by Paolo Cacciary,
Judith A. Hoffberg, Robert C. Morgan, Doron Polak, Rebecca Rass, Giancarlo
Vianello
Dominique Nahas, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Kouros Gallery,
New York, NY, Art in America, review
Robert C. Morgan, Wlodzimerz Ksiazek at Kouros Gallery,
New York, NY and Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Art Press
Magazine, review
2002
Susan Hagen, Clean Slate - Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: New Paintings,
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia City Paper,
review
Deidre Stein Greben, Margins of Abstraction, Kouros
Gallery, New York, NY, Art News, review
Edward J. Sozanski, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Philadelphia
Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, The Philadelphia Inquirer, review
Czeslaw Karkowski, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Kouros Gallery,
New York, NY, Polish Cultural Weekly, review
James McCorkle, Painting as Its Own Being: The New Work
of Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Artnet Magazine, feature article
Christopher Chambers, December Picks: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek
at Kouros Gallery, NYArts Magazine, review
David Pagel, Mapping the Aftermath: Wlodzimerz ksiazeks
Embodied Cartography, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Kouros Gallery, New
York, NY, catalogue essay
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Wlodzimierz Ksiazeks Resistant,
Resilient Paintings, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Kouros Gallery, New
York, NY, catalogue introduction
Dominique Nahas Ksiazeks Archeology, dArt
International, feature article
Robert Knafo, Margins of Abstraction: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek,
Sean Scully, Joan Witek, and Juan Uslé, Kouros Gallery,
New York, NY, brochure essay
Czeslaw Karkowski, Margins of Abstraction: Kouros Gallery,
New York, NY, Polish Cultural Weekly, review
Robert F. Smith, Celebration of riverways: Brattleboro
Museum, Rutland Herald, review
Robert R. Craven, The Abstract Mind, Art New England,
review
Carl Belz, The American River, traveling museum exhibition,
Brattleboro Museum Brattleboro, VT, T.W. Wood Museum, Montpelier, VT,
Florence Griswold Museum, Lyme, CT, Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH,
catalogue essay
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Forman Gallery, Anderson Center
for the Arts, Hartwick College, The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY, review
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Current Paintings at Forman Gallery,
Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, The Tower Times, Oneonta,
NY, review
Carl Belz, A Note on Abstraction and Wlodzimierz Ksiazek,
Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, NY,
brochure essay
2001
Cate McQuaid The Best of 2001: Complex Ideas Were Highlights
of Exhibits, Boston Sunday Globe, feature article
Cate McQuaid, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Alpha Gallery,
Boston Globe, review
Christopher Todd Lynch, Signs of Humanity: Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek at Alpha Gallery, Arts Editor, review
Christopher Mills, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Boston Phoenix,
review
Richard Brilliant, Wlodzimierz Ksiazeks Paintings:
Fictive Walls, Veiled by Memory, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek Paintings
1990-2001, The Gallery at the Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon
College, Wenham, MA, and Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, catalogue essay
Robert C. Morgan, Ksiazeks Enigma, Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek Paintings 1990- 2001, The Gallery at the Barrington Center for
the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, and Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA,
catalogue essay
Bruce Herman, Introduction, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek Paintings
1990-2001, The Gallery at the Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon
College, Wenham, MA, and Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, catalogue essay
Michael Cochran, Passionate Abstraction: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek
at the Gallery at the Barrington Center for the Arts, Wenham,
MA and Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, ArtsMedia Magazine, feature article
Karen Wilkin, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Kouros Gallery,
Partisan Review, feature article
Saul Ostrow, Paintings by Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, NY
Arts Magazine, feature article
James McCorkle, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Revelations
Necessity, Kouros Gallery, brochure essay
2000
Dominique Nahas, Affirmation as Void: The Paintings of
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Think of It, Loughborough University Art
Gallery, Loughborough, England, catalogue
Saul Ostrow, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Painting Substance,
Think of It, Loughborough University Art Gallery, Loughborough, England,
catalogue essay
Mark Harris, Interview with the Artist, Think of
It, Loughborough University Art Gallery, Loughborough, England, catalogue
essay
Donald Kuspit, The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century,
Cambridge University Press, book
Cate McQuaid, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek New Paintings
at Alpha Gallery, Boston Globe, review
Robert C. Morgan, Painting Abstraction, Review Magazine,
review
Roberta Fallon, Somewhere to Run, Kabakov, Ksiazek, Le,
Softic, Sosa, Tiscornia, Philadelphia Weekly, feature article
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, You Cant Go Home Again: The
Art of Exile, Philadelphia Art Alliance, catalogue essay
Robert C. Morgan, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: The Ineffable Painting,
Alpha Gallery, brochure essay
James McCorkle, Exile and Hostage: Wlodzimierz Ksiazeks
Paintings, NY Arts Magazine, feature article
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, The Art of Exile: Kabakov, Ksaizek,
Le, Softic, Tiscornia,
NY Arts Magazine, feature article
1999
David Moos, Forward, Hostage, Kouros Gallery, New
York, NY, catalogue essay
James McCorkle, The Division of Time in a Cascade of Light,
Hostage, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY, catalogue essay, poem
Carl Belz, The 9th Triennial, Fuller Art Museum,
Brockton, MA, catalogue essay
Robert Smith, Art in Exile, You Cant Go Home Again,
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, Art New England,
feature article
Lisa D. Connell, Art of Exile - Past and Present,
The Keene Sentinel
Art of Exile, The Brattleboro Reporter, feature article
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro,
VT, catalogue essay
Rick McKowan, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Alpha Gallery,
Art New England, review
Robert Smith, Visions from Distant Lands on View in Art
of Exile, Rutland Herald, review
1998
Cate McQuaid, The Artist as Alchemist, Philosopher,
Boston Globe, review
Gail Kelley, In Life, Art, Ksiazek Doesnt Fear Risks,
Boston Sunday Globe, feature article
Declaration Universelle des Droits de lHomme, Libertè
98, published by the United Nations, book
William Craig, Ksiazeks Paintings, Valley News,
review
Richard Vine, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Marisa del Re Gallery,
Art in America, review
Robert Smith, A Man, His Country, His Art, Rutland
Herald, feature article
Donald Kuspit, Mourning and Memory: Wlodzimierz Ksiazeks
Abstract Paintings, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss
Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, catalogue essay
Czeslaw Milosz, Bypassing Rue Descartes, Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH, catalogue, poem
1997
Marek Bartelik Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Marisa del Re Gallery,
Artforum, review
Kevin Forrest, Hartland Artist in New York City,
Vermont Standard, review
Robert C. Morgan, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Marisa del Re
Gallery, Review Magazine, review
Zbigniew Basara, 200 cm x 233 cm, profile, Polish Daily News,
feature article
Michael Rush, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Marisa del Re Gallery,
Review Magazine, review
Czeslaw Karkowski, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Marisa Del Re
Gallery, Polish Cultural Weekly, review
James McCorkle, A Vigil of Time: The Painting of Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek, Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York, NY, chapbook
Charlotte Davenport, Poets and Artists, The Vermont
Standard, review
1996
The Artists Museum, International Provisional Artist Community,
Lodz, Poland, book
Czeslaw Czaplaniski, Portraits: Polish Artists in America, 1980-1995,
Rosikon Press, Warsaw, Poland, book
1995
Phillis Levin, Afterimage, Copper Beech Press, book cover
Doron Pollak, Co-Existence: Construction in Process V,
Mizpe Ramon, Israel, catalogue essay
1993
Phillis Levin and Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Promise, Dim Grey Bar
Press, New York, NY, broadside
1992
Craig Fisher, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at John Gibson Gallery,
Tema Celeste, review
Jean Serban, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at John Gibson Gallery,
Sunstorm, review
Allana Heiss, Slow Art, The Institute for Contemporary
Art, PS I Museum, Long Island City, NY, brochure essay
1991
Marek Bartelik, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at John Gibson Gallery,
Polish Cultural Weekly, review
Elzbieta Dzikowska and Wiestawa Wierzchowska, Jestesmy,
Zacheta Gallery Press, book
1988
Stanislaw Jordanowski ,"Vademecum Malarstwa Polskiego,
book
1987
Maryla Sitkowska and Grzegorz Dziamski, Sztuka Mlodych
1975-1980, book
David Penne, No Invitation Necessary, George Ciscle
Gallery, City Paper, Baltimore, MD, review
1986
Nancy Ramsey, A Polish Artist Encounters America,
Bookforum, feature article
Catherine Weber, Three New Shows at Ben Shahn Center for
the Arts, The Beacon, review
David Shapiro, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek Paintings, brochure
essay
John Zeaman, Art Talk: Wlodzimeirz Ksiazek at the Ben Shahn
Center for the Arts, The Record, review
1985
Czeslaw Czaplinski, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Polish Cultural
Weekly, feature article
Jocelyn Dietsch, Six Artists and Galleria Principal,
El National de Ahora, Santo Domingo, review
Christopher White, The Art of the 70s & 80s,
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, brochure
1984
Phillis Levin, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Soho Center for
Visual Arts and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, brochure essay
1980
Wernisaz 7, Channel 2 Polish TV, an interview with
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek
1979
Ewa Szemplinska, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Nowy Wyraz,
literary monthly, feature article
Ewelina Pierzynska, Radom Museum, Radom, Poland, catalog essay
Pauline Lemke, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Depolma Gallery,
Voice, Dusseldorf, Germany, review
Zbigniew Florczak, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Artistic Profile,
Express Wieczorny, Warsaw Poland, review
Malgorzata Wozniak, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at Express Gallery,
Kurier Polski, Warsaw, Poland, review
1978
Zbigniew Florczak, Conversation with Wlodzimierz Ksiazek,
Express Wieczorny, Warsaw, Poland, review
Krzystof Wachowiak, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek Paintings,
BWA Gallary, Opole, Poland, catalogue essay
Wojciech Krauze, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at ZPAP Gallery,
Zycie Warzawy, Warsaw, Poland, review
Artbooks
2009
To Be Here, Again by Wlodzimierz Ksiazek in collaboration
with James McCorkle.
Created for the International Artists Museum as part
of the project: Détournement,
Venice 2009 as a collateral event of the 53rd Biennial of Arts,
Venice, Italy
2008
The Black Book by Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, unique edition
2003
In Winter, Writing on the State of the Child, and by Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek, in collaboration
with James McCorkle for Wandering Library- project for Venice
Biennale,
2003. Silkscreen printing by RISD Print Editions, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, RI
Films
2010
Possibilities of Understanding. The Art of Wlodzimierz Ksiazek",
film by Richard Gonci, Documentary film about the artist work, cameras
Christian de Rezendes, RI, Andrew Lawton, NewYork, NY, Robert Knafo,
New York, NY, Sage Freddura, Boston, MA, Editor Adam Payne, Boston,
MA, Audio Engineer Dylan Schwartz,Boston, MA, Music Mitch Kess, New
York, NY
2009
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek: Archeological Abstractions, Documentary
film about the artists work by Robert Knafo, NewArtTV, New York,
NY
2003
In Winter, Writing on the State of the Child, and, a film
by Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, excerpts from poem by James McCorkle, and excerpts
from 1990 United Nations Declaration on Rights of the Child, Providence,
RI Film Screenings
2011
Possibilities of Understanding. The Art of Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Possibilities of Understanding. The Art of Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence,
RI
2010
Possibilities of Understanding. The Art of Wlodzimierz
Ksiazek, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
In Winter, Writing on the State of the Child, and,
curated by PeterMcLean, North Hall Huntington, MA
2008
In Winter, Writing on the State of the Child, and,
Long Island University, Long Island, NY
2003
In Winter, Writing on the State of the Child, and,
Wandering Library Project of the International Artists
Museum in Venice, 50th Venice Biennale 2003, Venice, Italy
Artist in
Residence
2000
Loughborough University, Loughborough, England
1998
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Faculty,
Visiting Lecturer, Visiting Artist
2011
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2009
CCRI, Providence, RI
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2008
The Case of Trauma as Creative Force, lecture, Long
Island University, NY
Symposium organized by ArtsEditor, with Richard Brilliant, James
McCorkle, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, and S. Edward Burns, Pawtucket, RI
Tish: Earth, The Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
Once or a Thousand Times, panel discussion, The Art
Students League, New York, NY
2007
Massachusetts College of Art at the Fine Arts Work Center, Mentor,
Boston, MA
2006
School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2005
School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2004
School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2002
Hartford Art School, Graduate Program at Hartford University,
West Hartford, CT
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
2001
Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Aldelphi University, Long Island, NY
2000
Loughborough University, Loughborough, England
Worchester College, Worchester, MA
Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1999
Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, RI
1998
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1995
Art Institute, Oranin, Israel
1987
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
1986
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1985
Parsons School of Design at Altos de Chavon, Dominican
Republic
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
1995 Galilee Intaglio Press, Israel
1994 Galilee Intaglio Press, Israel
1991 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
1987 Artists Space, New York, NY
1986 Djeriassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
1985 Montalvo Center for the Arts, Temecula, CA
1985 Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1984 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar College,
VA
1984 Millay Colony for the Arts, MA
1984 Ragdale Foundation, IL
1984 Dorland Mountain Colony for the Arts, CA
1983 Yaddo Grant, NY
1979 Radom Museum Annual Award, Radom, Poland
1978, 79 Ministry of Culture, Poland (one year grant)
1977, 78 Ministry of Culture, Poland (one year grant)
1976 MDM Gallery, Annual Exhibition
1975 Kordegarde GalleryAnnual Exhibition, Warsaw, Poland, Ministry
of Culture, Poland (Excellence Grant)
Selected
Public Collections
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Loughborough University, Loughborough, England
Urban Eye, London, England
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar College, VA
Shiba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
Gulf & Western
Hobart and William Smith College, NY
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
New York Public Library, NY
Library of Congress, Washington, DC