Stanisław TOMALAK (b. 1955), Fragment 501, from the series "Seas and Ports," 2018

mixed media (acrylic, original technique), canvas, 60 x 90 cm, signed lower left: St. Tomalak. The painting was featured in the exhibition “Colors of the Sea, Gift of Pomerania” in Gdynia in 2018.

Born in 1955 in Brzeg Dolny, Polish painter; has been active as an artist since 1975
Chess player with FIDE category I++. Two-time finalist in the Polish Correspondence Chess Championships
in the 1990s, where he placed 4th and 8th.
Since 2011, a member of the Association of Polish Fine Artists, recommended by professors 
S. Kortyka and W. Kuczma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.
For many years, he practiced traditional landscape painting.
Later, he was drawn to a style akin to fantastic realism.
Since 2000, he has increasingly leaned toward abstraction.
He constantly experiments, using his own techniques and technologies in addition to traditional methods.
His works feature varied surfaces.
He calls his paintings “Fragments” and assigns them sequential numbers.

Participation in solo and group exhibitions:
DOK Gallery, Brzeg Dolny
DOK Wołów
Lubiąż Post-Cistercian Complex
Awangarda Gallery, Wrocław
Artrakt Gallery, Wrocław
DNA Gallery, Wrocław
Na Antresoli Gallery, Wrocław
Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
Wojnowice Castle
Królikarnia Palace – Branch of the National Museum in Warsaw
Final of the Art&Business competition for “Painting of the Year 2004,” Warsaw, 2005
Desa Unicum Young Art Auctions 2008–2011
Winner of the 2nd “Zadra” Painting Competition 2009—First Place
Zadra Gallery, 29 Andersa St., Warsaw; solo exhibition
March 2011 Young International Contest of Contemporary Art.
2nd Edition of the International Exhibition: The Magic of Paper
Ether Gallery, Warsaw, June 2011
42nd and 43rd Radom Winter Salon 2011–2015
Polswiss Auction House, Warsaw
DNA Gallery, Wrocław
Artrakt Gallery, Wrocław
Vivid Gallery, Wrocław
7th Miniature Biennial; Częstochowa 2012
“Contemporary Landscape”; Częstochowa 2013–2015
Bielsko-Biała 2013 – Poster Exhibition – The Decalogue
Wozownia, Toruń 2013 – Triennial of Small Forms
7th International Biennial of Painting and Textiles – Gdynia 2013
6th International Pastel Biennial – Nowy Sącz 2013
4th International Painting Biennial “Quadro-Art 2014”
Agora Gallery, New York 2015
Polish Art of the 21st Century, Brussels 2016
Next Gallery, Bydgoszcz – solo exhibition, 2017
Sofitel Hotel, Wrocław – solo exhibition, 2018
Q-Hotel Wrocław – solo exhibition 2019
Bella Pictura, Brzeg Dolny – solo exhibition, 2019
Fragments of the World (cont.), Ostrołęka Gallery, solo exhibition March 5–31, 2020
SKY Tower Wrocław Art Fair, September 24–27, 2020
Quadro Art Łódź 2021
Q-Hotel Wrocław – solo exhibition 2023
BWA Wrocław “The Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse”—group exhibition, 2023
Desa Unicum, Warsaw “Surrealism and Magical Realism”—group exhibition, 2024
Lewin Kłodzki, December 2024; Wałbrzych, January 2025—ZPAP Post-Plein Air Exhibition
Zakopane, December 2024 – Painting Competition – “My Zakopane”
Exhibition “In the Window,” Wrocław, March 2025 (under the patronage of Prof. K. Pawlak, Vice Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts
“Fragments of the World (cont.)”—solo exhibition, Wrocław, April 2025, DNA Gallery
Forpoczta – 80th Anniversary of the ZPAP / Wrocław 2025