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3 S H O W S
3 W E E K S
3 P L A C E S
u n d e r t h e c o m m o n c a l l :
P O P - U P G R O U P S H O W
b y a s o l o a r t i s t
I N S E A R C H O F A N E X P R E S S I O N
s u i t a b l e f o r t h e t i t l e
O c t o b e r 2 0 1 8
• Historical Museum of Bielsko-Biała
• Engraver's House, Wrocław
• Warsaw River View, Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 43
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victoR divides his creative time between:
R o u g h : L i n e s
F i n e : L i n e s
i L L u s t r a t i o n s
He works in his studio and in many neighbourhood cafes.
His idiosyncratic sense of humour and love for anything outrageous or surreal is evident in everything he does.
He loves to explore the nooks and crannies of old Toronto neighbourhood including all lost rivers.
Passionate about music, he is continually modifying his speakers in pursuit of a perfect, natural sound.
victoR, visual artist, painter, has also illustrated several books for children and later also for their children. His editorial work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and other publications in Canada, the USA, and Europe. He has won many awards, honourable mentions and numerous other pieces of watermarked paper with his name on it.
Before moving to Canada, he was active as a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, cartoonist. He also invented, designed (some published) board games of varying levels of complexity.
Earlier still, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with an MFA in graphic design (only because he needed to receive a degree in the form of a piece of fine paper with his name on it).
victoR had started his higher education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where he studied for 2 years. Today, however, no one will remember him there, so he often skips this formative episode when relating his history.
While still in elementary school, he won a nationally televised contest organized by a well-known artist and TV personality. Yet in victoR's small town, nobody believed it was him, even when his name and town were read on the program. That profound experience reshaped his plans for the future. He decided not to be a track maintenance man for the local railway.
victoR grew up in a house close to a railway line. He studied every detail and function of the old, dilapidated steam engines as they rolled by. By the age of six, he had drawn dangerous number of them. This never-ending supply of art on paper was regularly utilized by his mother for the purpose of heating the house.
He was born near Brzeszcze [ˈbʐɛʂt͡ʂɛ], a small mining town in Poland.
Earlier than that, there was no victoR. Yet.
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A C I D F R E E
Art Square Gallery, Toronto, 2017
Venue • Fine:Lines • Opening • Rough:Lines + kids • Closing
EGG BENEDICT EGG
• University of Social Sciences and Humanities Gallery, Katowice, Poland, 2015
ROUG;HLINES, SIDELINES and CONFESSION ROADS
• Out in the Sticks Gallery, Yarker, Ontario, 2011
WHEN CYNIC MEETS SKEPTIC - with A. Pawlowski - sculptor
• Art Square Gallery, Toronto 2009
A SUBTLE ART OF SCAVENGING
• Gallery PeKaO, Toronto 2006
P R E V I O U S C E N T U R Y
VICTOR GAD FROM FAX
• Museum of Caricature, Warsaw
WALK-IN PORTFOLIO
• PAAS Gallery, New York
INCREDIBLE DRIVE TO SHOW (...OFF)
“Unfinished” Collection
• BWA Gallery, Warsaw
• BWA Gallery, Torun, Poland
RHETORICAL LANDSCAPES
• Gallery Art, Warsaw
13 GLOOMY PORTRAITS FOR SALE
• Portrait Gallery, Warsaw
BOUTIQUE – A Joke in 40 Pictures
• Gallery Repassage, Warsaw
LAUGHABiLIA
• Gallery hYbrYdY , Warsaw
g r o u p s h o w s
SHARED PLACES, SHARED SPACES
• Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, 2014
6x6 FUND RAISING EXHIBITION
• Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA, 2012
DRAWING 2012: 13 Annual Juried Exhibition
• John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto 2013
ECO ART SHOW
• Gallery 1313, Toronto 2012
SPEAKEASY’s ILLUSTRATION SHOW
• The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, 2011
OCAD Auction and exhibition of small works
• OCAD, Toronto 2010
ART POLONICA TWO
• Art Square Gallery, Toronto 2010
ART POLONICA ONE
• Art Square Gallery, Toronto 2009
CANADIAN ART BY POLISH ARTISTS
• Toronto City Hall 1992
ONCE UPON A TIME – exhibition of children’s book illustration
• Vancouver Art Gallery (featured artist)
12 INTERNATIONAL POSTER BIENNALE
• The Poster Museum at Wilanow, Poland
BOLOGNA CHILDREN’S BOOK FAIR – Illustrators Exhibition
• Bologna, Italy; Japan
SHORT PIECES FOR SPARROWS
• The Art of Young Artists, Lodz, Poland (featured artist)
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r e c o g n i t i o n
The Advertising and Design Club of Canada
• Merit Award for The Toronto Star
Ontario Arts Council Grant
Society of Newspaper Design
• Merit Award for The Toronto Star
Society of Newspaper Design
• Silver Award for The Globe and Mail illustration
National Magazine Award for the illustration
• CIO Canada Magazine
“White Ravens of Children Books” –
• International Youth Library in Munich, Germany for the book Mischief City illustrated and designed by victoR gad and written by Tim Wynne Jones
The Art Director’s Club of Toronto Award
• For Canadian Business Magazine (Old Corporate Testament)
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