The election meeting of the Electoral College of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw was held on 27 March 2024, during which the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw was elected for the term 2024 - 2028. Prof. Błażej Ostoja Lniski became the rector-elect. The second term of office will begin on 1 September 2024 and will last until 31 August 2028. We extend our sincere congratulations to the newly elected Rector!
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Born in Czersk, 1974, painter and graphic artist, mainly a lithographer, and designer of books, posters and typefaces; educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 1994–1999, under Prof. Rajmund Ziemski at the Faculty of Painting (Rector’s special mention for degree piece), and under Prof. Władysław Winiecki (minor in lithography).
Professor of Visual Arts, 2013. He has been professionally associated with his alma mater since 1999; has run the Lithography Studio, Faculty of Graphic Arts, since 2008. Director of part-time Doctoral Programme at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Deputy Dean of this Faculty, 2008–2012; Dean, 2012–2016 and 2016–2020. Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 2020–2024.
He took part in many group exhibitions and had numerous solo exhibitions in Poland and internationally, of which the most important have been: Painting Exhibition (solo), Oranżeria Contemporary Art Gallery, Polish Academy of Sciences Congress and Conference Centre, Jabłonna, 2011; Letter, figure, repetition – a painting exhibition (solo), Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, 2012; Becoming a window – a painting exhibition (solo), Test Gallery, Warsaw, 2013; TheOstoja Lniskis: Between the academy and folk art; A family duet on art – a multidisciplinary exhibition, Julian Rydzkowski Historical and Ethnographic Museum, Gallery of Contemporary Polish Art, Chojnice, 2015; Palimpsestic strategy – a lithography exhibition (solo), Polish Institute in Sofia, 2017; Place – a painting exhibition (solo), Mazovian Institute of Culture, XX1 Gallery, Warsaw, 2018; Refuges of images – a painting exhibition during the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Mora, Venice, 2019; 27th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, The invited artists, 2021; Two rectors at one poster exhibition, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Warsaw, 2022; The nature of the image, the image of nature – painting exhibition (solo), Museum of King John III’s Palace at Wilanów, Warsaw, 2022/2023; The image of nature – painting exhibition (solo), Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Lviv, 2023.
Honorary doctor of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, 2023. Honoured with the “Pegaz” award of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 2015, and the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis, 2023.
Works in the collections: National Museum in Warsaw, National Library, Museum of Warsaw, Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Witold Gombrowicz Provincial Public Library in Kielce, University of Łódź Library, Julian Rydzkowski Historical and Ethnographic Museum in Chojnice, Prints Collection of the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice.
