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Jacek Ryka??a graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krak??w, the Department of Graphic Arts, in 1976.
He is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice where he heads the Studio of Fine Art Painting. www.jacekrykala.com

Ryka??a has had about 60 individual exhibitions. More important among them include:

1977 Katowice Gallery ZPAP �?? PSP, Katowice

1981 Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA, Katowice

1984 O. N. Gallery, Pozna??

1987 BWA Krak??w ; BWA Katowice ; BWA Pozna??

1988 Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw ; 37 Million Gallery TVP, Warsaw

1989 Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krak??w

1990 Dijkstra Gallery, Amsterdam

1991 Espace-Temps Gallery, Paris

1992 F-15 Gallery, Moss, Norway �?? A Retrospective

1993 BWA Cz�?stochowa ; BWA Zielona G??ra ; Mada Gallery, Karlsruhe

1994 Gallery A, Stuttgart ; Artemis Gallery, Krak??w

1995 Insinuations of the Sielec District, 1985-1995, BWA Katowice

1996 Insinuations of the Sielec District, 1985-1995, National Art Gallery, ?�??d??

Insinuations of the Sielec District, 1985-1995, The Polish Institute, Vienna

Insinuations of the Sielec District, 1985-1995, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw

Insinuations of the Sielec District, 1985-1995, Regional Museum, Toru??

Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw

1997 Miskolci Gallery, Miskolc, Hungary

Ecole des Beaux �?? Arts, Saint Etienne, France

1998 Shining �?? Studio Art Centre, Warsaw

Lovers from Kaliska Street �?? Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw

1999 Radio Katowice Gallery

Boys from B�?dzin �?? Czas Gallery, B�?dzin

Obecna Gallery �?? City Centre for Culture, Jaworzno

2000 Shining �?? The Polish Institute, Rome

2001 Close the Door, Please �?? Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw

Jacek Ryka??a, ... Sunday Afternoons Brimming with the Silence of Deserted Streets and Backyards..., Sosnowiec Museum

2002 Jacek Ryka??a, ... Sunday Afternoons Brimming with the Silence of Deserted Streets and Backyards...,

The National Museum, Krak??w, Main Building

2003 Jacek Ryka??a, Bilder, Objekte, Collagen, Stadmuseum, D??sseldorf, Germany

2004 Jacek Ryka??a, Arrested Time �?? Painting and Graphic Arts, TW007 Art Gallery, New York, USA

Jacek Ryka??a, Stanis??aw Wyspia??ski Theatre of Silesia, Grand Stage Foyer

Mist �?? Jewish Inspirations, KNST Gallery, Marcho??t, Katowice

2005 Jacek Ryka??a, The Polish Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Trivial Things, Trifling Events, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw

2006 Jacek Ryka??a, Cose poco importanti arrenimente insignificanti, Galleria d�??arte Polacca, Bologne, Italy

2008 Paradise lost? Selected Works, 1977- 2007, Gallery of Contemporary Art, BWA, Katowice

Jacek Ryka??a, Painting, Hortar Gallery, Tarn??w accompanied by a presentation of Jacek Ryka??a�??s art in

Ludwik Solski Theatre in Tarn??w

Gates of B�?dzin, Museum of the Zag??�?bie District, B�?dzin

2009 Tableau�?? mowa wygnana�?� (together with A. Tobise and I. Walczak), Kameralna S??upsk Gallery, Baltic Modern Art Gallery.

2010 Chily Mornings, Krypta u Pijar??w Gallery, Krak??w.

Yellow Light of Empty Places,Sosnowieckie Centrum Sztuki Zamek Sielecki

2011 Yellow Light of Empty Places, BWA Kielce

2013 Tales from the Kitchen, Silesia Theatre Katowice

From 1976 to 2013 Ryka??a participated in more than 300 collective exhibitions all over the world, among them:

1978 and 1988 1st and 4th International Triennale of Drawing, Wroc??aw

1981 Fritiska Roster Fran Polen �?? Konstmuseet, Ystad

1978, 1980, 1986, 1988 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Festival of Contemporary Polish Painting, Szczecin

1981 Poland : Landscape, People, Ideas, Sopot

1980 Drawing and Commentary, Regional Museum, Radom

1981 Drawing and Description, Regional Museum, Radom

1983 2-eme Convergence Jeune Expression �?? Grand Palais, Paris

1984 Polonya cagas resim seqesi, Ankara, Istanbul

1985 Internationale Kunstbiennale, Seetal, Switzerland

1989 1st Biennale of Young People�??s Art Way and Truth, Saint Cross Church, Wroc??aw,

1986 8 Miedun??rodne Bien??le Malby, Kosice (CSRS)

1988 1st Biennale of Small Format Painting, Toru??

1988 Arsenal �??88, National Exhibition of Young People�??s Art, Warsaw

1988 Festival of Art, Moscow

1989 �??Den abne d?�or�?? Charlottenberg, Kopenhagen

1989 Drawing, Centre For Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

1989 Red and White, Warsaw ; Amsterdam

1990 Enclave �?? Interart International Fairs of Art, Pozna??

1992 10 Years Later,Regional Museum, Radom

2001 Europalia, Brussels

2004 Directions in Art, TWOO7 Art Gallery, New York

2004 Triennale of Polish Graphic Arts, Katowice 2004, Miskolc, Hungary, 2005

2004 International Triennale of Graphic Arts, Krak??w, Oldenburg 2005

2006 D�?br??wka Street 9 �?? On Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, the museum of Silesia, Katowice

2007 Re(con)naissance of Painting, Biennale of Contemporary Art, GCK Katowice

2008 Polish Art After 1945. Between the Idea of Contemporary Art and Reality and Memory, Jacek Malczewski Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom

Gardens, Pomeranian Dukes�?? Castle, Szczecin

2009 Gardens, El Gallery, Elbl�?g

Tableau... A Banished Speech, Kameralna Gallery, S??upsk

Icons in the Art of the Twentieth Century, Krypta Gallery at the Piarists�??, Krak??w

2011 Recykling the Iron Curtain,Kuhlhaus,Berlin

From 1989 to 1996 Ryka??a�??s paintings were presented at various Art Fairs, among them :

1989-96 Art Cologne

1990-96 Art Frankfurt

1991, 1994 Art Chicago

1991 Art Los Angeles

1992 Art Tokyo

Art Hamburg 90

Art Nice 90

2005 Art London

2007 Arte Fierra, Bologne

The following museums have Jacek Ryka??a�??s works in their collections :

The National Museum, Krak??w, Warsaw, Pozna??, Szczecin

The Museum of Contemporary Art, ?�??d??

The Museum of Silesia, Katowice

The Museum of the Jagiellonian University, Krak??w

The Regional Museums in Radom and Bydgoszcz

The Museum of the Lubusz Region, Zielona G??ra

City Museums of Katowice, Sosnowiec, Jaworzno, Chorz??w

Studio Art Centre, Warsaw

The Castle of the G??rkowie House in Szamotu??y �?? a gallery of paintings on wood board

Volker Feierabendt�??s collection inetended for the Sprengel Museum in Hannover

The Stadtmuseum D??sseldorf

Private collections in dozens of countries around the world

Jacek Ryka??a received innumerable awards and distinctions, among them :

1980 1st Prize in the Z. R. Pomorski National Painting Competition, Katowice

1980, 1988 Awards at the10th and 15th Festival of Polish Painting, Szczecin

1981 An award at the exhibition Poland �?? Landscape, People, Ideas, Sopot

1980, 1986 Awards in the J. Spychalski Painting Competition, Pozna??,

1978, 1980 Medals at the National Exhibitions of Painting A Bielsko-Bia??a Autumn, Bielsko-Bia??a,

1985 A distinction at Internationale Kunstbiennale �??Seetal�?�, Switzerland

1989 An award at the 1st Biennale of Young People�??s Art Way and Truth, Saint Cross Church, Wroc??aw

1989 Arsenal �??88 Warszawa, a distinction

1992 Sosnowiec City Award for the work in the field of art for the year 1992

Theatre:

4 June 2005: A premiere of Jacek Ryka??a�??s theatre performance based on his own play A House to Demolish. The play was directed by Ryka??a and performed on the stage in Malania at the Stanis??aw Wyspia??ski Theatre of Silesia in Katowice

October 2005: Performance of the play A House to Demolish at the Festival of Polish Premieres in Bydgoszcz

December 2005: Performance of the play A House to Demolish at the National Museum in Krak??w, Main Building. The play was accompanied by a presentation of Jacek Ryka??a�??s paintings.

7 February 2005: A premiere of Jacek Ryka??a�??s play Creamery directed by Ryka??a and performed on the stage in Malarnia at the Stanis??aw Wyspia??ski Theatre of Silesia in Katowice.

2 February 2012 ; A premiere of Jacek Rykala�??s play Chily Mornings directed by Rykala and performed on the stage at the Zaglebia Theatre in Sosnowiec.

Television films about Jacek Ryka??a :

The 38 Million Gallery, F. Kuduk, TVP Warsaw, 1988
Defence, A. Geber, TVP Krak??w, 1989
Jacek Ryka??a�??s Portraits, J. Ko??odziejczyk, Katowice, 1992
Jacek Ryka??a, B. Bartkiewicz, TVP Katowice, 1993
Ryka??a at the Gate, J. Patyna, TVP Katowice, 1995
Insinuations of the Sielec District, M. Durczok, TVP Katowice, 1995
Somebody, Canal +, 1996
S. Piskor�??s programme Pleiad devoted entirely to Jacek Ryka??a, TVP Katowice, 2005

GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS :

ZPAP (Zwi�?zek Polskich Artyst??w Plastyk??w) �?? Polish Association for Artists

PSP (Pracownia Sztuk Plastycznych) �?? Fine Arts Studio

BWA (Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych) �?? Art Exhibitions Bureau

TVP (Telewizja Polska) �?? Polish Television