CONTEMPORARY
HISTORICAL
MICHAEL ANTKOWIAK
What Right Has My Head To Call Itself Me
October 7th to November 5th 2016
opening Oct 7th 6-9pm
MICHAEL ANTKOWIAK
Michael Antkowiak paints from images found on social media and from the artist’s personal photographs. His work conflates the collective with the individual experience and presents a fragmented narrative of the everyday. Antkowiak’s images of intimacy, self reflection, and domesticity, discuss the construction of an individual’s sense of self within a greater social context.
Michael Antkowiak (Warsaw, 1977) is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and completed his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2003. He has since exhibited in public and commercial galleries in Canada and abroad, including the Queens Museum of Art, in New York City, and Carrie Secrist Gallery, in Chicago, Il. Michael is a recipient of several artist’s grants and residencies, including the Toronto Arts Council Grant, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. Michael lives and works in Toronto, and in addition to his studio practice, teaches as a drawing and painting instructor at OCAD University.
Michael Antkowiak - Green Painting
oil on canvas, 2014, 28” x 32”
WORKS
oil on canvas, 11x14, 2016
oil on canvas, 11x14, 2016
oil on canvas, 11x14, 2016
oil on canvas, 11x14, 2016
oil on canvas, 2014, 32x48
oil on canvas, 2015, 18x24
oil on canvas, 2014, 24x30
oil on canvas, 2015, 18x24
oil on canvas, 2014, 20x30
oil on canvas, 2014, 20x30
oil on canvas, 2016, 18x24
oil on canvas, 2015, 14x11
EXHIBITION LIST
Michael Antkowiak - Static
oil on wood panel, 2014, 32” x 48”
Michael Antkowiak - Reclining Red
oil on wood panel, 2014, 18” x 24”
2016
What Right Has my Head to Call it Me, WIL KUCEY GALLERY, Toronto, ON
2014
MONADS LE Gallery, Toronto, ON.
THE GLASS HOUSE Helen & Arch Brown Centre for the Visual Arts, Georgian College, Barrie, ON.
PROJECT 31, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2013
BY THE DOZEN, Telephonebooth Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2012
PIXEL PUSHER, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON.
60 PAINTERS, Humber College, Etobicoke, ON.
THE GLASS HOUSE, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON.
2011
SINGLE FARE, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY.
PD CONNER’S PLACE, Howard Park Institute, Toronto, ON.
2010
SICK LOVE, Catherine Slip (Curated by Gillian Sneed), New York, NY.
2009
TWO WEEKS OF INTRODUCTIONS, Board of Directors Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
REBIRTH, Pearl Gallery, Burlington, VT.
WISH YOU WERE HERE, Gladstone Hotel, Katherine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
PULSE NEW YORK Contemporary Art Fair, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Il.
2008
MEDIUM COOL (Michael Antkowiak and Joy Episalla), Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Il.
NEXT: EXHIBITION OF EMERGING ART, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Il.
PULSE NEW YORK Contemporary Art Fair, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Il.
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada.
2007
TIME WILL TELL OUR STORY
SOCIAL MEDIA
WIL KUCEY GALLERY
1183 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M6J1X3
416-532-8467
Director: Wil Kucey
Gallery Manager: Vinna Ly