Piotr Janas

Piotr Janas (born 1970) is a Polish artist. He has had solo gallery exhibitions in Berlin, Warsaw and San Francisco. In 2006, he was included in the group show Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, curated by Franceco Bonami at the Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea as well as Polish Painting of the 21st Century at the National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and the 50th International Venice Bienniale in 2003. He currently lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

Solo exhibitions 2010 Istituto del Cervello, Cardi Black Box, Milan 2009 Geometry of Meat, Nicolas Krupp, Basel Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw 2007 Bortolami, New York 2005 Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin Foksal, Warsaw Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles 2004 Wrong Gallery, New York Giti Nourbakhsch Gallery, Berlin 2003 Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Á

Selected exhibitions and projects 2006 Polish Painting of the 21st Century Zachnta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw Willa Warszawa, Raster Gallery, Warsaw Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism / Pittura Contemporanea e Realismo Globale, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano (cat.) 2004 Flash at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (cat.) 2003 Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (cat.) 2001 Zawody malarskie / Painters' Competition, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala (curated by Adam Szymczyk) (cat.) 1998 Galeria Rotunda, Warsaw November 1998 – November 1999 - "Big Movement" (collaboration with Maciej Sawicki), various locations, Warsaw 2001 Minus, Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw (cat.) 1999 Received the award of EXIT art magazine in the 34th National Painting Contest “Bielska Jesien ’99”