ŁUKASZ STOKŁOSA

Born in 1986 in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland.
Live and work in Cracow, Poland.
Specialize in painting.
Represented by Zderzak Gallery, Krakow, Poland and Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

Education: 
2005-2010 studiedpainting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, painting department.

Solo exhibitions:

2024 – „Cries & Whispers”, Tureen Gallery, Dallas, USA
2023 - „Perihelion”, AMITY, Nowy Jork, USA
2022 – ‘Ambassadors. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. ‘, Zderzak gallery, Krakow.
2021 - ‘Cliffhanger’, Krupa Gallery, Warsaw.
2020 - ‘Moonlight shadow’, Salon of Friends of the Together Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw.
2019 - “What comes from the eyes, comes from the heart”, How to forget gallery, Krakow.
2019 – “Make it before the night…”, The City Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland.
2018 - “Najpiękniejsze i najcudowniejsze rzeczy, które się widzi, jeśli się patrzeć umie”, Krupa Gallery, Wrociaw, Poland.
2018 – “One Hundred Vievs”, Zderzak Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
2018 - “Queen of the Night”, Handbook for City Dwellers, Krakow, Poland.
2017 – “Misfits”, Zderzak gallery, Krakow, Poland.
2015 - “Golden cage”, Nunc Contemporary, Antwerp, Belgium.
2015 – “Number 392″, Zderzak Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
2014 -  “GRUPPO DI FAMIGLIA IN UN INTERNO”, Kunstverein zu Assenheim, Germany.
2013 – “The composition of paintings”, Zderzak gallery, Cracow, Poland.
2011 – “A Winter’s Tale”, Zderzak gallery, Cracow, Poland.

Group exhibitions:
2022
- “THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING”, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
2021
- “W te dni zgiełkliwe, płomienne i oszałamiające, przenoszę się myślą”, Stefan Gireowski Foundation, Warsaw.
- “Silver shining tears at 3 a.m.”, Śmierć Człowieka, Warsaw.
- “Frieze and Emblem”, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw.
2020
- “Inter-Time” Cricoteka, Cracow.
- “Time and foam” Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.
- “Love”, Shefter Gallery, Cracow.
- “And if darkness is not only black, what else can it be?”, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka/Słupsk.
2019
- “Black bile”, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka.
- “Displacement”, Kraków Museum, Tenement House of the Hippolytes, Kraków.
2018
- “Capital”, 16th edition of the SURVIVAL Art Review, Wallenberg-Pachalych palace, Wroclaw, Polska.
2017 
- “HERE we are. Selected works of post-1945 Polish art from the collection of Krzysztof Musiał”, Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland.
- “XY ‒ New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting”, MODEM, Debreczyn, Hungary.
2016
- “Between systems. Polish contemporary painting in Krzysztof Musiał’s collection “, Center of Contemporary Art “Francisco Hernandez” in Malaga, Spain.
2015 
- “Artists from Krakow: The Generation 1980–1990″, Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków, Poland.
- “Double”, Platan Gallery, polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
- “In Search of Imaginary World”, Nunc Contemporary, Antwerp, Belgium.
2014
- “100 Painters of Tomorrow”, Beers Contemporary, London, U.K.
- “Landschaft, Landschaft…”, aTak gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
- “Art more precious than mud”, Brewery Lubicz, Cracow, Poland.
- “Lepiej mieć horyzont wąski…”, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, Poland.
- “Uncertain places”, Knoll Galerie, Vienna, Austria.
- “L.O.V.E”, Colony of Artists, Gdańsk, Poland.
2013
- “Estrus and Promiscuity”, Bank Pekao PROJECT ROOM – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
- “Uncertain places”, Knoll Galerie, Budapest, Hungary.
- Exhibition of The Geppert Competition, BWA Wroclaw Galleries of Contemporary Art, Poland.
- “Derealizm”, City Gallery in Wrocław/Galeria Miejska we Wrocławiu, Poland.
- “Mum, I just really need to focus on my art. right now”, GaleriaMiejskaArsenał, Poznań, Poland.
2012
- “Overrunning 2″, Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych gallery, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
- “Recyclists”, AS galery, Cracow, Poland.
- “Wait!New acquisitionsto the Zderzak gallery collection”, Zderzak gallery, Cracow, Poland.
- “Ice Queen”, Zderzak gallery, Cracow, Poland.
2011
- ”Renovation, apartment repainted”, exhibition / art project in a private apartment, Krakow, Poland.
- “About strange feelings” Zderzak gallery, Cracow, Poland.
2010
- “TAKE (ART) AWAY”, curatorial project Paulina Olszewska and Ewa Surowiec “Endosymbiotic”,Zero gallery, Berlin, Germany.
- “Pinc cube” Olympia gallery, Cracow, Poland.
- “You don’t get what you see”, curatorial project Paulina Olszewska and Ewa Surowiec “Endosymbiotic”, Zero gallery, Berlin, Germany.
- “Ars Homo Erotica”, Warsaw National Museum, Poland.
2008
- “Półmetek”, Cracow, Otwarta Pracownia Gallery, Poland.
- “Poligon”, exhibition and artistic performance by the “Strupek” group, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland.

Publication:
2014 – Publishing of the artwork in the album: „100 Painters of Tomorrow”, Kurt Beers, Thames&Hudson, London, New York.
2013 – catalog “The composition of paintings”, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, Poland.
2010 – Publishing of the artwork in the album: “Art Pride” by Paweł Leszkowicz, Abiekt.pl, Warsaw, Poland.

He specializes in figurative painting. He takes inspiration most often from mass culture, movies and TV series. He feels good in camp aesthetics. Stokłosa’s paintings attract and repel, they have their second and third meanings, just like film noir.