Rafal Zajko
Polish b. 1988
Born 1988 in Białystok, Poland.
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom.
EDUCATION
+2020-16 Goldsmiths, MFA Fine Art, UK
+2012-09 Chelsea College of Art, BA HONS, Fine Art, UK
+2009-08 Central Saint Martins, Foundation in Art and Design, UK
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
+2023 CLOCKING OFF, Queercircle, London, UK
+2022 Amber Waves II (The Blaze), Galeria Fran Reus, Mallorca, Spain
+2022 SLOT, Abingdon Studio Project Space, Blackpool, UK
+2022 Song to the Siren, Cooke Latham Galley, London, UK
+2021 Amber Waves / Bursztynowe Fale, Public Gallery, London, UK
+2020 Resuscitation, Castor Projects, London, UK
+2019 We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy, Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Bialystok, PL
+2018 SOFTWARE, Three Works, Scarborough, UK
+2018 Jaka Praca Dzis–Takie Nasze Jutro, Castor Projects, London, UK
+2018 Unputdownable, White Cubicle, London, UK
+2018 Hopeless Roma NTIC, Changing Room, London, UK
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
+2023 Milk and Bread, Kunsthalle Vienna, AS
+2023 Players Piano, Artstation, Saxmundham, UK
+2023 Wink Wink, Whitaker Museum, Lancashire, UK
+2023 Support Structures, Gathering, London, UK
+2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, UK
+2023 Hemispheres, Alice Black Gallery, London, UK
+2022 My Mother was a Computer, Indigo+Madder, London
+2022 Swiat nie wierzy lzom, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
+2022 London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London
+2021 NOT PAINTING, Copperfield, London, UK
+2021 New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, UK
+2021 New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
+2021 Relic, APT, London UK
+2020 ‘4 |14 26 Degrees East, Wiels Annex, Brussels, Belgium
+2020 Age of Ephemerality, X Museum, Beijing, China
+2020 Clay TM, TJ Boulting, London, UK
+2020 Bold Tendencies 2020, London, UK
+2020 Circa, Piccadilly circus screen show, London, UK
+2020 Jenny from the block, Fotopub festival Project Space, Ljubliana, SVN
+2020 Habitual, group show, Castor Projects, London, UK
+2019 4FSB, group show, Goswell Rd, Paris, FR
+2019 Nostromo, group show, Ashes/Ashes, New York, USA
+2019 1999 – the One, group show, Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto, SVN
+2019 Absinthe §2, group show, Spit & Sawdust, London, UK
+2019 On the Subject of Precarity, group show, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
+2019 Ocular Inc., group show, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
+2019 Halfway House, group show, Exile, Vienna, AUT
+2019 If its not meant to last, the its Performance, group show, Vitrine, Basel, CH
COMMISSIONS
+2023 Techno Harvest, performance commission for Deptford X Festival, London, UK
+2023 We Were Here, public commission for St Peters School Huntingdon, Wysing Arts Centre and Henry Moore Foundation
+2015 Sunscreen, commission by EM15 for 56th Venice Biennale 2015, IT
+2014 Wandering Monument (weave), commission for Pringle of Scotland, UK
AWARDS
+2016 Nominated to Nigel Greenwood Award 2016, UK
+2013 Winner of inaugural Hippodrome Art Film Award 2013, UK
+2012 Acme Chelsea Studio Award 2012, UK
+2012 CCW Artist Moving Image Grant in conjunction with South London Gallery, UK
RESIDENCIES
+2016 Koppel Projects, The Hive, London, UK
+2014 g39, UNIT(e) programme, Cardiff, Wales
+2014 Liminal Spaces, Temporary Arts Projects T–A–P, Southend–on–Sea, UK
UPCOMING SOLO SHOW
+2025 Focal Point, Spring
+2020-16 Goldsmiths, MFA Fine Art, UK
+2012-09 Chelsea College of Art, BA HONS, Fine Art, UK
+2009-08 Central Saint Martins, Foundation in Art and Design, UK
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
+2023 CLOCKING OFF, Queercircle, London, UK
+2022 Amber Waves II (The Blaze), Galeria Fran Reus, Mallorca, Spain
+2022 SLOT, Abingdon Studio Project Space, Blackpool, UK
+2022 Song to the Siren, Cooke Latham Galley, London, UK
+2021 Amber Waves / Bursztynowe Fale, Public Gallery, London, UK
+2020 Resuscitation, Castor Projects, London, UK
+2019 We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy, Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Bialystok, PL
+2018 SOFTWARE, Three Works, Scarborough, UK
+2018 Jaka Praca Dzis–Takie Nasze Jutro, Castor Projects, London, UK
+2018 Unputdownable, White Cubicle, London, UK
+2018 Hopeless Roma NTIC, Changing Room, London, UK
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
+2023 Milk and Bread, Kunsthalle Vienna, AS
+2023 Players Piano, Artstation, Saxmundham, UK
+2023 Wink Wink, Whitaker Museum, Lancashire, UK
+2023 Support Structures, Gathering, London, UK
+2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, UK
+2023 Hemispheres, Alice Black Gallery, London, UK
+2022 My Mother was a Computer, Indigo+Madder, London
+2022 Swiat nie wierzy lzom, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
+2022 London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London
+2021 NOT PAINTING, Copperfield, London, UK
+2021 New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, UK
+2021 New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
+2021 Relic, APT, London UK
+2020 ‘4 |14 26 Degrees East, Wiels Annex, Brussels, Belgium
+2020 Age of Ephemerality, X Museum, Beijing, China
+2020 Clay TM, TJ Boulting, London, UK
+2020 Bold Tendencies 2020, London, UK
+2020 Circa, Piccadilly circus screen show, London, UK
+2020 Jenny from the block, Fotopub festival Project Space, Ljubliana, SVN
+2020 Habitual, group show, Castor Projects, London, UK
+2019 4FSB, group show, Goswell Rd, Paris, FR
+2019 Nostromo, group show, Ashes/Ashes, New York, USA
+2019 1999 – the One, group show, Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto, SVN
+2019 Absinthe §2, group show, Spit & Sawdust, London, UK
+2019 On the Subject of Precarity, group show, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
+2019 Ocular Inc., group show, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
+2019 Halfway House, group show, Exile, Vienna, AUT
+2019 If its not meant to last, the its Performance, group show, Vitrine, Basel, CH
COMMISSIONS
+2023 Techno Harvest, performance commission for Deptford X Festival, London, UK
+2023 We Were Here, public commission for St Peters School Huntingdon, Wysing Arts Centre and Henry Moore Foundation
+2015 Sunscreen, commission by EM15 for 56th Venice Biennale 2015, IT
+2014 Wandering Monument (weave), commission for Pringle of Scotland, UK
AWARDS
+2016 Nominated to Nigel Greenwood Award 2016, UK
+2013 Winner of inaugural Hippodrome Art Film Award 2013, UK
+2012 Acme Chelsea Studio Award 2012, UK
+2012 CCW Artist Moving Image Grant in conjunction with South London Gallery, UK
RESIDENCIES
+2016 Koppel Projects, The Hive, London, UK
+2014 g39, UNIT(e) programme, Cardiff, Wales
+2014 Liminal Spaces, Temporary Arts Projects T–A–P, Southend–on–Sea, UK
UPCOMING SOLO SHOW
+2025 Focal Point, Spring
Exhibitions
Gallery Exhibition
Ubiquitous nº14
26.09.23 - 10.12.23
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