Maciej Zdanowicz was born in Poland, 1982. He is a visual artist and art theorist who works in graphics and new media. His interests focus on intermedia and transmedia activities, on the border between visual and auditory forms of sensations. He seeks the immersive dimension of art, creating solutions in sound and dynamic suggestiveness.
He works as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Art, the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, where he runs the intermedia structures and mechanisms of seeing studio. Zdanowicz is currently serving as a Vice Dean for Educational and International Affairs. He is the author of several individual exhibitions, curatorial projects, critical texts, and scientific articles in modern and contemporary art history. Actively promotes and develops culture and art, including coordinating efforts of the city of Kielce for the title of European Capital of Culture 2029, Program Board of the National Museum in Kielce (appointed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage). Zdanowicz received awards and honors (Artistic Scholarship of Lodz City Mayor in 2017, honorable mention in the I National Exhibition of Student Drawing in Torun in 2008, the prize of the City Art Gallery in Lodz at the 23rd Wladyslaw Strzeminski Competition- Fine Arts). He is a member of several artistic and scientific international organizations, among them: the editorial board of "Visual Studies" journal (at the Faculty of Fine Arts of St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria), the ATINER Athens Institute for Education & Research (Arts, Humanities and Education Division - Arts and Culture Unit), The Polish Section of The International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Southern Graphic Council International (SGCI).
From 2002 to 2007, he studied at the Faculty of Graphic and Painting, the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He graduated with honors from the prof. Boguslaw Balicki's Studio of Poster Design and prof. Romana Halat's Studio of Painting and Drawing. From 2007 to 2016, he worked as a Teacher Assistant in the Studio of Image run by professor Aleksandra Gieraga at the Faculty of Visual Arts of his Alma Mater. From 2009-to 2015, he studied History of Art (doctoral studies) at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 2012, a started doctoral studies at the Institute of Fine Arts, the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, where in 2015 received a doctoral degree in Fine Arts.
Contact: m.h.zdanowicz(at)gmail.com
Solo exhibitions
2022
Where the Sun Sets Earlier. Images of the Post-Truth Era, Department of Media and Visual Arts, West Liberty University (United States)
Where the Sun Sets Earlier. Images of the Post-Truth Era, Department of Media and Visual Arts, West Liberty University (United States)
2019
Immersion Space. PS., Konduktorownia Gallery, Czestochowa
Images from the Time of Post-truth, Tycjan Gallery - Gallery of the Union of Polish Artists (Kielce District), Kielce
Immersion Space. PS., Konduktorownia Gallery, Czestochowa
Images from the Time of Post-truth, Tycjan Gallery - Gallery of the Union of Polish Artists (Kielce District), Kielce
2018
Fragments of Super-Reality and Sub-Reality, Academic Gallery of the University of Bielsko-Biala
Relations. Immersive Space, EuroArt Gallery, Rivne (Ukraine)
Ldz. Resonance city, Ta3 Gallery, Warsaw
PhonoGraphic. PS., 6. dzielnica Gallery, Lodz
Fragments of Super-Reality and Sub-Reality, Academic Gallery of the University of Bielsko-Biala
Relations. Immersive Space, EuroArt Gallery, Rivne (Ukraine)
Ldz. Resonance city, Ta3 Gallery, Warsaw
PhonoGraphic. PS., 6. dzielnica Gallery, Lodz
2017
PhonoGraphic. Images of Lodz's Soundscape, Book Art Museum, Lodz
PhonoGraphic. Images of Lodz's Soundscape, Book Art Museum, Lodz
2015
Geometry of Sound – Imaging of Soundscape (doctoral exhibition), XS Gallery at the Institute of Fine Arts, the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
The Young Polish Graphic: Maciej Zdanowicz. Monophonic Images, The Gallery of the Contemporary Art in Przemysl
2014
Sound Map of Veliko Tarnovo, an interactive project in open space, Veliko Tarnovo (under the frame of city's presentation "Veliko Tarnovo European Capital of Culture 2019", realization in cooperation with Ewelina Kurkowska, art in residence)
2013
Soundscape: Lodz (PL) - Veliko Tarnovo (BG), Tam. Bar & Art Space, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
2012
Soundscape I, project in open space, Wedrujaca Witryna Gallery, Lodz2010
Luminarium, Gallery of Art at Municipal Culture Centre in Debica
2008
Imaging of Music, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wloclawek
The Man - Inner Space, Balucka Gallery - City Art Gallery, Lodz (catalog)
2007
Maciej Zdanowicz’s individual exhibition, Lubostron Palace, Lubostron near Bydgoszcz (organizer: The Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music)
Painting and Drawing, Promotion of Young Gallery at Balucki Culture Centre in Lodz
Rituals of Post-Times, Academy of Fine Arts in Bari (Italy)
Graphics of Mountains - Geo. Migrations Transgraphic, BWA Kielce Gallery (catalogue)
International Art-Residence Program "Experiencing Modernity. Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia", Park Kultury, Starachowice
Fulfilling Predictions: Images of the End Times, Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Madison (United States)
Geometry of Sound – Imaging of Soundscape (doctoral exhibition), XS Gallery at the Institute of Fine Arts, the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
The Young Polish Graphic: Maciej Zdanowicz. Monophonic Images, The Gallery of the Contemporary Art in Przemysl
2014
Sound Map of Veliko Tarnovo, an interactive project in open space, Veliko Tarnovo (under the frame of city's presentation "Veliko Tarnovo European Capital of Culture 2019", realization in cooperation with Ewelina Kurkowska, art in residence)
2013
Soundscape: Lodz (PL) - Veliko Tarnovo (BG), Tam. Bar & Art Space, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
2012
Soundscape I, project in open space, Wedrujaca Witryna Gallery, Lodz2010
Luminarium, Gallery of Art at Municipal Culture Centre in Debica
2008
Imaging of Music, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wloclawek
The Man - Inner Space, Balucka Gallery - City Art Gallery, Lodz (catalog)
2007
Maciej Zdanowicz’s individual exhibition, Lubostron Palace, Lubostron near Bydgoszcz (organizer: The Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music)
Painting and Drawing, Promotion of Young Gallery at Balucki Culture Centre in Lodz
Selected group exhibitions
2022Rituals of Post-Times, Academy of Fine Arts in Bari (Italy)
Graphics of Mountains - Geo. Migrations Transgraphic, BWA Kielce Gallery (catalogue)
International Art-Residence Program "Experiencing Modernity. Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia", Park Kultury, Starachowice
Fulfilling Predictions: Images of the End Times, Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Madison (United States)
2021
15th International Autumn Salon of Art, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (catalog)
Own Therytories - Shared Therytories, Dworzec 17:30 Gallery at the Kielce Promotion Point, Kielce
Own Therytories - Shared Therytories, Dworzec 17:30 Gallery at the Kielce Promotion Point, Kielce
2020
6th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Transylvanian Centre of Fine Arts, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania (catalog)
6th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Transylvanian Centre of Fine Arts, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania (catalog)
2019
8th International Triennial of Graphic Arts Sofia 2019, Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria (catalog)
14th International Autumn Salon of Art, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (catalog)
5th Piotrkow Biennial, ODA Gallery
Gallery of the Faculty of Art of the Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Geo. Transgraphic Migrations, BWA Gallery, Kielce (catalog)
8th International Triennial of Graphic Arts Sofia 2019, Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria (catalog)
14th International Autumn Salon of Art, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (catalog)
5th Piotrkow Biennial, ODA Gallery
Gallery of the Faculty of Art of the Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Geo. Transgraphic Migrations, BWA Gallery, Kielce (catalog)
2018
10th Polish Printmaking Biennial, Silesian Museum, Katowice (catalog)
5th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Transylvanian Centre of Fine Arts, Sfântu Gheorghe (catalog)
3rd PrintMaking Biennial in Čačak, Regional Centre in in Čačak, Serbia (catalog)
The Chaos - Forms of Notation, Pentagon Gallery of the Visual Arts Faculty of the Radom University
The 3rd Printmaking Biennial in Cacak, Regional Centre in Cacak, Serbia (catalog)
10th Polish Printmaking Biennial, Silesian Museum, Katowice (catalog)
5th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Transylvanian Centre of Fine Arts, Sfântu Gheorghe (catalog)
3rd PrintMaking Biennial in Čačak, Regional Centre in in Čačak, Serbia (catalog)
The Chaos - Forms of Notation, Pentagon Gallery of the Visual Arts Faculty of the Radom University
The 3rd Printmaking Biennial in Cacak, Regional Centre in Cacak, Serbia (catalog)
2017
Geo.graphy of Art, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA in Kielce
Music - Line, Form and Color, May Gallery, Sliven, Bulgaria
Synaesthesia, Arthus House Gallery, Torun
Geo.graphy of Art, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA in Kielce
Music - Line, Form and Color, May Gallery, Sliven, Bulgaria
Synaesthesia, Arthus House Gallery, Torun
2016
Festival of New Art Labyrinth: Between Images, Radio Slubfurt, Frankfurt Oder, Germany (catalog)
5th International Biennial of Digital Graphic Gdynia 2016, Centre of Design, Gdynia, Poland (catalog)
Geometria of Screen – Geometry of Image, Art Centre El Gallery, Elblag (catalog)
Geometria of Screen – Geometry of Image, XS Gallery, Kielce
Silence of Sounds, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (catalog)
Festival of New Art Labyrinth: Between Images, Radio Slubfurt, Frankfurt Oder, Germany (catalog)
5th International Biennial of Digital Graphic Gdynia 2016, Centre of Design, Gdynia, Poland (catalog)
Geometria of Screen – Geometry of Image, Art Centre El Gallery, Elblag (catalog)
Geometria of Screen – Geometry of Image, XS Gallery, Kielce
Silence of Sounds, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (catalog)
2015
Factor of Risk, (-1) Gallery of Polish Olympic Committee, Warsaw
Silence of Sounds, BWA Gallery in Jelenia Gora (catalog)
Formes and Structures, International Cultural Centre in Cracow (cataog)
Continuation, The Centre of Art Activities, Piotrkow Trybunalski
Factor of Risk, (-1) Gallery of Polish Olympic Committee, Warsaw
Silence of Sounds, BWA Gallery in Jelenia Gora (catalog)
Formes and Structures, International Cultural Centre in Cracow (cataog)
Continuation, The Centre of Art Activities, Piotrkow Trybunalski
2014
4th International Biennial of Digital Graphic Gdynia 2014, Centre of Design, Gdynia, Poland
Identification of the Existing Time, DAP Gallery, Warsaw
Image. Between Rationalism and Expression, BWA Gallery in Rzeszow (catalog)
4th International Biennial of Digital Graphic Gdynia 2014, Centre of Design, Gdynia, Poland
Identification of the Existing Time, DAP Gallery, Warsaw
Image. Between Rationalism and Expression, BWA Gallery in Rzeszow (catalog)
2013
2nd Exhibition of Members the International Print Triennial Society in Cracow, International Centre for Graphics Art in Cracow
Free ticket, international art project in open space, City Bus Station in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Collection, Korekta Gallery, Warsaw
Image. Between Rationalism and Expression, The Wanda Siemaszkowa Theater, Rzeszow
5th Festival "Art and Documentation: The Name of the Father? The Name of Mother!, Domek Ogrodnika Gallery, Lodz (catalog)
2012
Transparency, Center for Visual and Non Visual Arts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Pure Potentiality, Center for Visual and Non Visual Arts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (catalog)
2011
Image., Allmendinger Galler, Lodz (catalog)
2nd Exhibition of Members the International Print Triennial Society in Cracow, International Centre for Graphics Art in Cracow
Free ticket, international art project in open space, City Bus Station in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Collection, Korekta Gallery, Warsaw
Image. Between Rationalism and Expression, The Wanda Siemaszkowa Theater, Rzeszow
5th Festival "Art and Documentation: The Name of the Father? The Name of Mother!, Domek Ogrodnika Gallery, Lodz (catalog)
2012
Transparency, Center for Visual and Non Visual Arts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Pure Potentiality, Center for Visual and Non Visual Arts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (catalog)
2011
Image., Allmendinger Galler, Lodz (catalog)
2009
Something Different, APW Gallery, New York, United States
Biennial of Digital Miniature Plock 2009, Plock Art Gallery (catalog)
Grand Prix of Young Polish Prints 2009, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cracow (catalog)
Slot Art Festival 2009: Art Cathedra II. I Am What I See, Lubiaz near Wroclaw
Something Different, APW Gallery, New York, United States
Biennial of Digital Miniature Plock 2009, Plock Art Gallery (catalog)
Grand Prix of Young Polish Prints 2009, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cracow (catalog)
Slot Art Festival 2009: Art Cathedra II. I Am What I See, Lubiaz near Wroclaw
2008
I National Exhibition of Student Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun I (catalog)
Best Diplomas of the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Central Museum of Textiles (catalog)
I National Exhibition of Student Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun I (catalog)
Best Diplomas of the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Central Museum of Textiles (catalog)
2007
7th A7th AGRAFA - Competition of Students' Graphic Design, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice (catalog)
24th Wladyslaw Strzeminski Competition- Fine Arts 2007, Lodz Art Centre
AGRAFA - Competition of Students' Graphic Design, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice (catalog)
7th A7th AGRAFA - Competition of Students' Graphic Design, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice (catalog)
24th Wladyslaw Strzeminski Competition- Fine Arts 2007, Lodz Art Centre
AGRAFA - Competition of Students' Graphic Design, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice (catalog)
2016
23rd Wladyslaw Strzeminski Competition - Fine Arts 2006, The Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Art in Lodz (catalog)
23rd Wladyslaw Strzeminski Competition - Fine Arts 2006, The Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Art in Lodz (catalog)