Bogdan Perzynski is a contemporary artists who lives and works in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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. He was trained in law at the University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, and in architecture, and fine arts at the The Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan where he earned his fine arts degree in 1979 from with a specialization in Painting. Throughout the same year he abandoned traditionally defined art for a more open-ended art practice. His first solo show was at the Akumulatory 2

Galeria Akumulatory 2

Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznań was one of the key Polish locations exhibiting international art trends such as conceptual art or Fluxus from 1972 to 1989 – and so it hosted numerous solo exhibitions by international conceptual artists and the Fluxus Festival in 1977...

, a non-profit experimental artist run art gallery. Between 1979-83 Bogdan worked at the gallery and began teaching at Poznan’s Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Sztuk Plastycznych. In the following year 1983-84 he lived in Germany but in 1984 Perzynski moved permanently to the United States

United States

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. Throughout 1984-87 he lived and taught at the University of California Santa Barbara. Since 1987 Perzynski has taught at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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 while maintaining a Texas residence.

Perzynski’s work focuses on the question of art's interdisciplinary character including the philosophies of communicative action, social pragmatism, and individual invention. He has worked with installation art

Installation art

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 since 1978, and in 1990, expanded toward sound, video, sensors and body-based interactivity

Interactivity

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. These works and newer pieces have been presented in Germany

Germany

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, the Netherlands

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, Poland

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, Thailand

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, Brazil

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, Israel

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 and the United States

United States

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. Over the last fifteen years, he produced works of art that include computer technology, video, sound, and architectural settings.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2005 "Not Good For Business." "Fortune Teller." Galeria Oko/Ucho, Poznan, (cat. English, Polish)

• 2003 "Balsamic Vinegar of Modena." Pierogi, Brooklyn

• 2001 "Balsamic Vinegar of Modena." Galeria AT, Poznan "Main Movement." FotoFest: Discoveries and Collaborations, Lawndale Art Center, Houston

• 1996 "Biofeedback." UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, (cat.) "Transfiguration of K." Pracownia Dzialan Artystycznych, Wroclaw Opening day: with C. Winiarski (bass)

• 1995 "Beware of Blindman Pictures." College Of The Mainland Fine Arts Gallery, Texas City

• 1992 "Bogdan Perzynski." Diverse Works, Houston

• 1991 "Four Installations. Diana Burgoyne, Patti Martori, Bogdan Perzynski, Buzz Spector." Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh

• 1990 "New Works." Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica

• 1990 "Hell and Heaven." Galeria Wschodnia, Wroclaw

• 1987 "Works 1984-87." Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, (cat.)

• 1983 "To show.” 20/26 Piwna, Warsaw

• 1981 "Projection 1 & 2." Foto-Video Gallery, Krakow

• 1981 "Surfaces to Use." 20/26 Piwna, Warszawa

• 1981 "Projection 2." Akumulatory 2
  Galeria Akumulatory 2
  Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznań was one of the key Polish locations exhibiting international art trends such as conceptual art or Fluxus from 1972 to 1989 – and so it hosted numerous solo exhibitions by international conceptual artists and the Fluxus Festival in 1977...
  
  , Poznan

• 1980 "From...to." P.I. Galeria, Krakow

• 1980 "Curtains." Gallery X, Wroclaw

• 1980 "Surfaces." Akumulatory 2
  Galeria Akumulatory 2
  Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznań was one of the key Polish locations exhibiting international art trends such as conceptual art or Fluxus from 1972 to 1989 – and so it hosted numerous solo exhibitions by international conceptual artists and the Fluxus Festival in 1977...
  
  , Poznan

• 1979 "Painting." BWA, Szczecin

• 1978 "Painting and Drawing." Galeria Wielka 19, Poznan

• 1979 "Film." Akumulatory 2
  Galeria Akumulatory 2
  Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznań was one of the key Polish locations exhibiting international art trends such as conceptual art or Fluxus from 1972 to 1989 – and so it hosted numerous solo exhibitions by international conceptual artists and the Fluxus Festival in 1977...
  
  , Poznan

Sources

• Official Website of Bogdan Perzynski
• http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=ShowArtist&eid=21&id=75&c=Past
• http://www.deathpenaltyartshow.org/gallery/artist_display.php?id=221&img=1
• http://www.pierogi2000.com/