Przemek Pyszczek is a Polish-born, Canadian-raised artist, currently living in Chicago. He works with sculpture, painting, installation, video, performance, and photography to interrogate the intersections of personal memory and embodied experience, as they are shaped by migration, queerness, psychology, technology, and social history. Pyszczek graduated from Northwestern University's Art Theory & Practice MFA program.
He has solo exhibitions at Ribot Gallery, Milan, Campeche, Mexico City, Belenius, Stockholm, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, Galeria Leto, Warsaw, and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg. He has also presented large-scale installations as part of the Narracje festival in Gdansk, PL and Anozero ‘19 - Bienal de Coimbra in Portugal. His work was included in 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, published by Thames & Hudson. He recently completed permanent outdoor public commissions in Jacmel, Haiti and Tychy, Poland.
Photo: Trevor Good
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Art Theory & Practice | Northwestern University
Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture | University of Manitoba
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Interior Lives, Ribot, Milan, IT
2022
Memory Devices, Campeche, Mexico City, MX
Good Friends (two-person with Amir Guberstein), Fierman, New York, US
2021
Windows on the World, Gärdet Metro Station, Stockholm, SE
A Dark Light, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR
2020
In Conversation - Chapter 1 (two-person with Stefano Perrone), Ribot, Milan, IT
Stara Woda, Last Resort, Copenhagen, DK2
2019
Project 3, Galerie Derouillon, Hôtel Cromot du Bourg, Paris, FR
Hyperlocal, Belenius, Stockholm, SE
FADOM, Leto Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2018
Bialystok, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, CA
Rags On Buildings (two-person with Jim Thorell), Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE
2017
Przemek Pyszczek, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR
Untitled, High Gallery, Poznan, PL
2016
1989, Belenius, Stockholm, SE
Sandomir, Nicodim, Los Angeles, US
2015
Muscle Memory (two-person with Donna Huanca), Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
Building Systems, Berthold Pott, Cologne, DE
Industrious, Window, Winnipeg, CA
2014
Corporalitas, Open Forum, Berlin, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
A Portrait of Me Surrounding All of You, Fierman, New York, NY
We can make any two stories touch, Block Museum at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2024
NADA Villa Warsaw with Fierman Gallery (NY), Warsaw, PL
MNFST, A+
, Warsaw, PL
Asmr U!, Le Guern, Warsaw, PL
2023
Another Day at the Office…, Office Impart, Berlin, DE
2022
Świat nie wierzy Łzom, Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Bialystok, PL
How (Not) to Fit In - Metaphern der Adoleszenz, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE
2021
Park Platz, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE
Feeling the Room Temperature, Setareh, Berlin, DE
2020
An Exercise in Tenderness, Kunstverein Mañana Bold, saasfee* pavillon, Frankfurt, DE
Bienniale Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, PL
2019
Anozero ‘19 Bienal de Coimbra, PT
Narracje Festival, Gdansk, PL
2018
Forever Never Comes, Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma, Grosseto, IT
Jerry Show Me Love, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR
Set in Scene, Office Impart, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE
A Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin, DE
Augmented Sunrise Beneath the Skin, Grund, Berlin, DE
Haptic House, Horseandpony, Berlin, DE3
2019
Monopol, Belenius, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, SE
2017
Based On A True Story, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR
Weltschmerz, Kinman Gallery, London, UK
Small, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin, DE
Modern Sculpture, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, ES
Runter von den Marmorklippen!, Kwadrat, Berlin, DE
Group Show, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, DE
2016
Power And Architecture, Calvert 22, London, UK
Father Figures Are Hard To Find, NGBK, Berlin, DE
Expanded Fields, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, DE
Harness Your Hiraeth, Periclo, Oriel Wrescam, Wrexham, UK
Expanded Fields, Nymphius Projekts, Berlin, DE
2015
Powerful Babies, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, SE
Interior/Exterior/Sculpture, Belenius Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
A Room for things to fit inside it, Other Projects/Ashley, Berlin, DE
Rio, Office Baroque, Brussels, BE
Dérive, Dérivée, Fondation CAB, Brussels, BE
2014
Dizzyland, Kino International Kunst, Berlin, DE
Of Nurture and Nomads, The Adventures Of, Berlin, DE
Group Exhibition, Nicodim, Bucharest, RO
2013 Come, All Ye Faithful, Florian Christopher, Zürich, CH
I don’t know it’s an illusion I don’t care, Vamiali’s, Athens, GR
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2024
Public sculpture commission, Secondary School No. 3 / Razem Pamoja Foundation,
Tychy, PL
2020
Public sculpture commission, Jacmel School / Razem Pamoja Foundation, Jacmel, HT
CATALOGUES
Beers, Kurt, and Richard Cork. 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow. London: Thames & Hudson, September 2019.
Blanks, Tim. Freeze for Frieze. Italy: Moncler and Royal College of Art, October 2016.
Borys, Monika, and Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmołajew. The World Does Not Believe in Tears - Longing and
Trauma in the Art of Bialystok and Podlasie. Bialystok: Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, August 2022.
Farias, Agnaldo, Lígia Afonso, and Nuno de Brito Rocha, eds. Anozero’19 - A Terceira Margem - The
Third Bank. Coimbra: Edições Almedina, November 2019.4
Kirszenbaum, Martha. Przemek Pyszczek. Paris: Galerie Derouillon, October 2017.
Kosok, Felix, Eileen Treusch, and Ellen Wagner. Schulterblicke. Über die Arbeit eines nomadischen
Kunstvereins – Mañana Bold. Cologne: Distanz and Mañana Bold, October 2022.
Sundberg, Mia, Bill Arning, and Rick Herron. Powerful Babies - Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today.
Stockholm: Art and Theory Stockholm, September 2015.
Villa, Maria. Przemek Pyszczek - Interior Lives. Milan: Ribot, November 2023.
PERIODICALS & PRESS
Abrams, Amah-Rose.
“The 50 Most Exciting Artists in Europe Today,
” Artnet News, November 25, 2015.
https://news.artnet.com/market/50-most-exciting-artists-part-two-368420.
Ademczek, Magdalena.
“Moving Back Forward - Przemek Pyszczek,
” Guest Rooms, accessed January
10, 2021. http://guestrooms.xyz/moving-back-forward.
Artsy editors.
“30 Emerging Artists to Watch This Summer,
” Artsy, July 14, 2015.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsyeditorial-30-emerging-artists-to-watch-this-summer.
Benthin, Pia.
“Ist das ein Museum – oder darf ich hier parken?,
” Der Tagesspiegel, September 16, 2021.
Davis, Jaquelyn.
“Przemek Pyszczek, 1989,
” Art Territory, October 23, 2015.
http://jsd.instrumentandoccupation.se/przemek-pyszczek-1989.
Delmage, Lara.
“Przemek Pyszczek - Sculpture and Painting Existing on a Continuum,
” Metal Magazine,
accessed July 1, 2019.
https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/przemek-pyszczek-sculpture-and-painting-existing-on-a-contin
uum.
Doyle, Buck, Kendra Place, and Cam Scott.
“Art & Wonder #1: Neon,
” Intercopy, January 29, 2015.
Forbes, Alexander.
“Up and Coming: Przemek Pyszczek Maps the Creative Potential of the Former
Eastern Bloc,
” Artsy, July 13, 2015.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-up-and-coming-przemek-pyszczek-maps-the-creative.
Genda, Dagmara.
“On Running into History, and How to Avoid a Bloody Nose: Work by Monika
Sosnowska and Przemek Pyszczek,
” Border Crossings, Issue 138, 2016.
Goldstein, Andrew M.
“10 of the Best Artworks of the 2015 Armory Show,
” Artspace, March 8, 2015.
https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/picks/best-artworks-of-armory-show-2015-52672.
Goodwill, Clifford.
“The Craft: A Conversation with Przemek Pyszczek,
” EQ3, August 25, 2014.
http://blog.eq3.com/2014/08/25/the-craft-a-conversation-with-przemek-pyszczek.5
Hinrichsen, Jens.
“Väter verzweifelt gesucht,
” Der Tagesspiegel, May, 5, 2016.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/ausstellung-in-der-neuen-gesellschaft-fuer-bildende-kunst-vaeter-verz
weifeltgesucht/13400942.html.
Honigman, Ana Finel.
“Critics' Picks: Przemek Pyszczek and Donna Huanca,
” Artforum, 2015.
https://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=picks&id=53648&view=print.
Honigman, Ana Finel.
“In the Studio with Przemek Pyszczek,
” International Sculpture Center, August 26,
2016. https://blog.sculpture.org/2015/08/26/przemek-pyszczek.
Kiyoizumi, AJ.
“Studio Visit with Przemek Pyszczek,
” Berlin Art Link, June 3, 2017.
http://www.berlinartlink.com/2014/06/03/new-przemek-pyszczek.
Kuitert, Floor.
“Toy Story,
” Frame, March 2016.
Kunsthalle Praha editors.
“A Turning Point for Live & Work of Przemek Pyszczek,
” Kunsthalle Praha,
accessed June 1, 2022.
https://www.kunsthallepraha.org/en/articles/a-turning-point-for-life-work-of-przemek-pysczek.
LVL3 editors.
“Artist of the Week: Przemek Pyszczek,
” LVL3, November 8, 2016.
http://lvl3official.com/artist-of-the-week-przemek-pyszczek.
McFadden, J.J. Kegan.
“Notes with a Broken Camera, No. 4: Some Men Play (With Language): Thinking
Translation and the Recent Work of Przemek Pyszczek,
” BlackFlash, 32.1, 2015.
Nowak, Dobrosława.
“Portfolio: Przemek Pyszczek,
” Contemporary Lynx, March 13, 2020.
https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/portfolio-przemek-pyszczek.
Pawłowski-Jarmołajew, Tomek.
“The World Does Not Believe in Tears: Longing and Trauma in the Art of
Białystok and Podlasie,
” Blok, November 6, 2022.
https://blokmagazine.com/the-world-does-not-believe-in-tears-longing-and-trauma-in-the-art-of-bialystok-a
nd-podlasie-2.
Pereira, Lorenzo.
“Muscle Memory at Peres Projects,
” Widewalls, June 20, 2015.
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/muscle-memory-peres-projects-group-exhibition-berlin.
Retallick, Matthew.
“Przemek Pyszczek: The Plattenbau is Cool Again,
” Creativepool, July 7, 2015.
https://creativepool.com/magazine/inspiration/przemek-pyszczek-the-plattenbau-is-cool-again.5849.
Sablinska, Aga.
“Warsaw’s New Collaborative Art Fair Debuts Amid an Upswing of Political Optimism in
Poland,
” Artnet News, May 16, 2024.
https://news.artnet.com/market/nada-villa-warsaw-2488197
Short, Steven.
“The Playful, Poignant Sculptures of Polish Artist Przemek Pyszczek,
” Christie’s
International Real Estate Magazine, June 3, 2021.
https://www.christiesrealestate.com/blog/polish-artist-przemek-pyszczek.6
Theiss, Anna.
“Warsaw Gallery Weekend – dla konserwatystów i antykonserwatystów,
” Vogue Polska,
September 17, 2019.
https://www.vogue.pl/a/warsaw-gallery-weekend-dla-konserwatystow-i-antykonserwatystow.
Wagley, Catherine.
“Przemek Pyszczek: Sandomir,
” LA Weekly, 2016.
http://www.laweekly.com/event/przemek-pyszczeksandomir-6604119.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2026
“Practicing for the Future: Artmaking and Learning in Uncertain Times,
” College Art Association
114 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2026.
“A Year at Hollywood Beach: Understanding self and place through serial photography,"
Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body, Poznan, PL, June 2026.
2024
“Handle With Care: Collecting from an Artist’s Perspective," Collecting as Cultural Practice
Symposium, Arab-German Young Academy, Cairo, EG, May 2024.
INVITED TALKS
2026
“An Introduction to Interventions,” Guest lecture for ART 372: Colonialism on Film
(Prof. Brendan Fernandes), Northwestern University
2021
Lecture and panel conversation, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE, September 2021.
Panel discussion, Talkie Talk, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE, September 2021.
2018
Lecture and Polish community outreach tour, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art,
Winnipeg, CA, April 2018.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
2024 City of Tychy, PL
2022 Dela.art collection, Warsaw, PL
2019 Starak Family Foundation, St. Moritz, CH
City of Gdańsk, PL
2017 Schinkel Family Collection, Winnipeg, CA
2016 Soho House collection, Istanbul, TR7
RESIDENCIES
2021 Art Omi Artists Residency, Kunsthalle Praha/Visegrad Funds Scholarship, Ghent, US
2020 Ceramics Workshop Residency, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Rabka Zdrój, PL
Dr. Éva Kahán Artists Residency, San Sano, IT
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
2024 Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University, US
2021 Allegro Prize Shortlist, PL
2018 Sobey Art Award Longlist, CA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR
Ribot, Milan, IT