Wojciech Ireneusz Sobczyk

Wojciech Ireneusz Sobczyk (b. 1985) works in sculpture, installation, animation, music, and printmaking. He studied graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Professor Dariusz Vasina. He works as an assistant professor at the Pedagogical University of Kraków.Sobczyk has been described as a decidedly un-contemporary artist. His interests revolve around broadly understood humanism, while his artistic practice draws on classical and even archaic techniques, themes, and iconography. Sobczyk returns to fundamental questions about the nature of the human being, the existence of Good and Evil, and the essence of Beauty and Art.Nominated for the Prix Bob Calle du livre d’artiste in 2019, he won third prize at the 1st Saint Vincent European Art Biennale SVEART, Valle d’Aosta, Italy, in 2012, as well as the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków. The artist has taken part in numerous individual and group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, LETO Gallery in Warsaw, Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, and Krinzinger Projekte in Vienna. His works are included in the collections of institutions such as MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art and Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków, as well as the PURO Hotels collection in Kraków.