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Marek Szczesny was born in Poland in 1939.
In the late 60's, he was associated with a group of artists from the “Zak" students club in Gdansk. He worked for the group, creating posters and showed his first works. In 1978 Szczesny left Poland for Paris where he obtained a Ford Foundation grant. During this time he exhibited more than 30 solo exhibitions, as well as many exhibitions in group.
Selected exhibitions include Agi Schoning, Gallery, Zurich, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, FIAC, Paris, in both 1994 and 1997, Akie Aricchi, Paris, The National Museum in Poznan, Poland, “Twenty – First Century,Polish Painting", National Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw, “Polish Art of 20th Century", Contemporary Center of Art, Toulon, France, Osaka 2001 Triennale International Exhibition of Contemporary Art., The Foksal Gallery in Warsaw and the Hans Weiss New Space Gallery in Manchester, Conneticut., Gallery Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, L'Etranger Gallery, London, Signum Foundation, Palazzo Doma, Venice.
Between 1996 and 2008, he was awarded grants in the United States 4 times., The Edward Albee Foundation in New York, Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation in New York.
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