JAN TYNIEC

BIOGRAPHY

In my works I have been avoiding storytelling and references of scale and time in order to unravel meaning. I remain most interested in exploring the relationships between culture and nature, or document (the perception of the real) and artifice (the deception of reality).

Photography allows me to create the most straightforward, yet highly personal images of water, sky, land, the lotus flower or a person within the context of landscape, beliefs and most importantly myth.

My work process is very emotional and often challenging as I aim to establish a most intimate relationship and understanding of the subject.

2010

ARTIST PROFILE

Born in 1960 in Warsaw, Poland. He received MFA degrees from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1983) and Hunter College in New York (1989). Between 1986 and 2005 he lived and worked in New York City. Currently he lives in Bali, Indonesia and Warsaw, Poland.

In recent years he traveled extensively to work on photography projects in the US, Indochina, Antarctica, Indonesia and China.

His photographs were shown recently in solo exhibitions: “Radiance Cycles” at River Gallery, Narrowsburg, New York 2007,”Bali – Full Circle”, Klima Bochenska Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2004, Edward Carter Gallery and at the Collegiate School in New York 2003, “Indochina – Antarctica” at the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, Indonesia 2002; in group exhibitions: “Art Infinitum” at Tony Raka Gallery, Bali 2012,”Art on the Edge” at Hawley Silk Mill, PA 2011, “From Fire to Ice: Conflicting Concepts” at the Edward Carter Gallery 2003, “America the Beautiful”, the Edward Carter Gallery, New York 2001, “Through the Lens of September 11”,SoHo Photo, New York (2002), Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Cannan, CT 2001, “Not a Theme Show”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh 2000.

Photographic portfolios by Tyniec: “Bonsai” 2009-cont., “Full Circle: Bali” 2002-cont., “Indefinite Boundary: Antarctica” 2001, “Indefinite Boundary: Desert” 1998-2000, “Designs for the Sky” 1997-cont., “Designs for a Water Surface” 1996-cont., “Mekong” 1996-cont.

Tyniec’s photographs of Hong Kong were published in the Guggenheim Magazine in the spring of 1997.

In 2002 and 2003 he was a guest artist at the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts in Bali, Indonesia; in 1988 at the Millay Colony for the Arts, New York and was a recipient of the Fulbright Educational Grant in 1986-87.

His paintings, drawings and photographs can be found in private, corporate and public collections in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Tyniec’s photographs have a capacity to incline profound silence (…) Their emptiness holds the quality of a metaphor, a state of mind found in many forms of Eastern thought. Yet Tyniec’s emptiness comes from a Western point of view, where a word “infinity” is more likely to be used. His photographs represent a pictorial vision in search of a new subjectivity.

Robert C. Morgan 2000

RÉSUMÉ＋ACHIEVEMENTS

BORN 1960 Warsaw, Poland
LIVES AND WORKS in the US, Bali, Indonesia and Poland

EDUCATION
1989M.F.A. Hunter College, City University of New York
1983M.F.A. The Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014Jan Tyniec Photographs, Full Circle: Bali, Ganesha Gallery, Four Seasons Resorts, Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia
2014Photographs, Jan Tyniec & John Back, the Alliance Gallery, the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, New York
2013Summer Exhibition, Jan Tyniec & Stephen Geldman, the Lodge at Woodloch, Hawley, PA.
organized and curated by Kiesendahl+Calhoun Fine Art Ltd.
2007Radiance Cycles River Gallery, Narrowsburg, New York
2004Full Circle: Bali Klima Bochenska Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2003Full Circle: Bali Edward Carter Gallery, New York City
Full Circle: Bali Collegiate School, New York City
2002Photographs The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, Indonesia
1997Designs for the Sky Critics Gallery Pokaz, Warsaw, Poland
Designs for the Sky Birch St. Annex, Taos, New Mexico
1990New Drawings Critics Gallery Pokaz, Warsaw, Poland
1989Culture-Nature Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1988Painting Discontinuity Kosciuszko Foundation House, New York City
1986Jan Tyniec Nowy Swiat Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1985Jan Tyniec Nowy Swiat Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Jan Tyniec Dzienkanka Studio, Warsaw, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024Ubud Open Studios Showcase, Titik Dua Gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Indonesia
2023Ubud Open Studios Showcase, Titik Dua Gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Indonesia
2015Barriers, Boundaries & Fences, online-B-Gallery group exhibition, the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, New York
2013The Age of Photography, Tony Raka Gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2012Art Infinitum Tony Raka Gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2006Life in Black and White, Five Photographers Perspective River Gallery, Narrowsburg, New York
2005Bloom Sage & Madison in association with Jayne H. Baum Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York
2004Contemporary Photography from Jayne H. Baum Gallery Leslie Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts
2003From Fire to Ice: Conflicting Concepts Edward Carter Gallery, New York City
2002Through the Lens of September 11 SoHo Photo Gallery, New York City
2001Spectra 2001, National Photography Biennial Silvermine Guild Arts Center New Canaan, Connecticut
America the Beautiful Edward Carter Gallery, New York City
2000Not a Theme Show organized by Vicky Clark, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
1999Recent Editions from New York Area Presses exhibition in conjunction with the annual meeting of Print Council of America, Leroy Nieman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, New York City
Works on Paper organized by Karen McCready Fine Art at Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York City
1997Oceans and Galaxies Karen McCready Fine Art, New York City
Neolandscape First Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Aerial Perspectives DC Moore Gallery, New York and Kendall Gallery, Miami Dade University, Florida
Heat, View Gallery, New York City
Baltic Iconopress Contemporary Art Center, Castle of the Dukes of Pomorze, Szczecin, Poland
Recent Editions and Monotypes Galamander Press, New York City
Collector’s Choice Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
1990-1992The Expressive Struggle Miami University Art Museum Oxford, Ohio;
The Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York;
Cleveland State University Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio;
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and The New York Academy of Art, New York City
1991The Art of Eastern Europe Castle College Gallery, New Rochelle, N.Y.
1990Around the Coyote ’90 Wooden Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
(the) Landscape in Question, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneanta, New York
Galeriada BWA Gallery, Sopot, Poland
Warschauer Kunststler Stellen sich vor Ars Polona Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
1989Young Painting (Polish Painting 1982-1987) The A.R.A. Gallery, Moscow and Lvov, Russia
Europe SARP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Redefining Visionary Art Doma Gallery, New York City
New Polish Painting Palffy Palace, Vienna, Austria
1988Fresh Paint – New Polish Art 1982-1987 Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1987Print Suite – New York City Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, New York City
1986Polish Contemporary Landscape Works Kosciuszko Foundation House, New York City
1983Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais Paris, France

GRANTS
2003Guest Artist, The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, Indonesia
2002Guest Artist, The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, Indonesia
1988Guest Artist, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
1987Kosciuszko Foundation Grant, Wanda Roehr Fund, New York City
1986-1987Fulbright Educational Grant

PRIVATE＋PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Works in private and public collections in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
COMO Hotels & Resorts
Banana Republic
Becton, Dickinson and Company, New Jersey
Bear and Stern, New York
Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois
Estee Lauder Companies, New York
Equitable Life, New York
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Hartz Mountain Industries, New Jersey
Reader’s Digest Association, New York
VSA Partners, Chicago
Williams and Connolly LLP, Washington, DC