Luka Rayski

Luka Rayski (born in 1982 in Warsaw) graduated with distinction in 2009 from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2014, he obtained his MFA in Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York as a Fulbright Scholar.

Rayski works in a wide range of artistic fields, including painting, poster design, and editorial illustration. He was awarded the Minister of Culture Award in the Geppert Competition at the National Young Painting Exhibition in 2007. He has won numerous prizes in poster design competitions, including the main prize at the AMS Poster Gallery competition in 2006. Since 2009, his drawings have been regularly published in various magazines, including Polityka, Wysokie Obcasy, and Tygodnik Powszechny.

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Selected solo exhibitions:

2022  Luka Rayski: Agitated Unfocused Inactivity, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
2019  Parallel Universe, two-person exhibition with Stephen Wilkes, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
Nyarlothetep, two-person exhibition with Augustin Rebetez, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw
2017  Second Thoughts, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
2014  Frame, two-person exhibition with Bing Han, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
2011  Mural at Warszawa Powiśle Club, Warsaw
2010  CV, exhibition of drawings and book presentation, Chłodna25, Warsaw

Selected group exhibitions:
2021  Okamgnienie, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
2019  11603: Una Exposición En Una Maleta, IK Projects, Lima, Peru
Kwiaty polskie, Center for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk
Geppert - Sprawdzam / Bez tytułu, BWA Wrocław
2018  Merry Crisis & Happy New Fear, la rada, Locarno
2017  Far Away from Where?, group exhibition at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, USA
2015  485 Lorimer Pop-Up Show, group exhibition, participation and curatorial cooperation, New York, USA
2014  Before, graduation exhibition of Parsons students, The Kitchen Gallery, New York, USA
2013  Where I come from, exhibition as part of the Illustrative Festival, Berlin, Germany
2012  Dlaczego nie wszyscy kochamy przygody? Opowieść o Janku Dziaczkowskim, group exhibition at CSW, Warsaw
2008  Show Polak, exhibition with Wojciech Pustoła and Filip Zagórski, Diego Manolo Riviera Gallery, Mérida, Mexico
2007  Prąd zmienny, 7th National Young Painting Exhibition, BWA Wrocław
2006  Malarstwo, exhibition with Filip Dziubek and Stanisław Wójcik, NUKU studio, Warsaw

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