CV
Last updated on AUGUST 1st, 2023
Born in 1984 in Lodz, Poland. Lives and works in the United States.
Education
2011-2012 Manchester Metropolitan University, MA Fine Arts, UK
2008-2011 Manchester Metropolitan University, BA Fine Arts, First Class Honours, UK
1999-2003 Private Secondary Art School in Lodz, Poland
Selected Solo exhibitions
2023 Echoes of Seasons, solo exhibition, Collin College Gallery, Plano, TX, USA (forthcoming)
2023 Owing to the Absence, artist in residence solo exhibition, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2022 Cake, Dab Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Artsy – invitational online)
2022 Two Minutes Before Midnight, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2020 Paper Gallery, two-person show, Manchester, UK
2020 Particular Tie-In, Mesquite Arts Center, two-person show, Mesquite, TX, USA
2019 Paramount of Eternity, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX, USA
2019 Ten Starts From One, Hopkins Center for the Arts Redepenning Gallery, Hopkins, MA, USA
2018 Ten Starts From One, Mildred M. Cox Gallery, Fulton, MO, USA
2017 Beneath Surface, Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, three person exhibition, Florida, USA
2016 Here My Voice, Marmot Art Space, Spokane, Washington, USA
2016 Feeling Good About Things, New School House Gallery, York, UK
2014 Blast of Absolute, BAC Bogota Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
2014 Revision of Displacement, Galeria Bogota, Nogales School, Bogota, Colombia
2014 State of Escape, The Studios, New Mills, UK
2013 Myriad of Alterity, Liebre Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Collections
Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, USA
GoggleWorks, Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, USA
Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX, USA
Fondazione Per’l Arte, Rome Italy
Siena Institute, Siena, Italy
Beda’s work has been placed in numerous private collections internationally.
Art Fairs and Biennale
2021 TOAF, Dallas, TX, USA
2020 TOAF, Dallas, TX, USA
2020 TOAF, Dallas, TX, USA (online)
2020 TOAF, Brooklyn, NJ, USA (online)
2019 Sante Fe Art Fair, Santa Fe, USA
2019 TOAF, Brooklyn, NJ, USA
2016 London Art Fair (solo) showing with BAC, Bogota Arte Contemporaneo, London, UK
2015 Harrogate International Visual Art Expo, Hive, Harrogate, UK
2014 Berliner Liste, showing with BAC, Bogota Arte Contemporaneo in Berlin, Germany
2012 Manchester Contemporary, showing with Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Scholarships, Residencies, Fellowships
2022-23 Ro2 Gallery, three months residency, Dallas, TX, USA
2018 GoggleWorks, Center for the Arts, 10 weeks residency, Reading, PA, USA
2016 Fondazione Per L’Arte Residency Fellowship, Rome, Italy
2015 National Open Art Competition Residency at Royal College of Arts, London, UK
2012 Scholarship at Dresden Academy of Arts, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany
Competitions, Prizes and Awards
2023 The Kite Prize for Contemporary Art, Amie Potsic Art Advisory
2018 Honorable Mention, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art’s 46th International Art Exhibition, Brownsville, TX, USA
2017 First Place for Interstate Group Exhibition, CWU Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, WA, USA
2017 Idaho Arts Commission Quick Grant for Individual Artists, Boise, ID, USA
2016 Idaho Arts Commission Quick Grant for Individual Artists.
2014 Second Prize for Montclair Studio, Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2014 Finalist for The Combat Prize, Livorno, Italy
2014 Finalist for The Williams Drawing Prize, Connecticut, USA
2013 Shortlisted for Art Gemini Prize, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London, UK
2012 NOAC Prize for the best from North of England, National Open Art Competition, Chichcester, UK
2012 Saatchi New Sensations, Victoria House, London, UK
2012 The Door Prize – for Painting (shortlisted), Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK
2011 Shortlisted for The Tiltle Prize, Blank Media Collective, Manchester, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Self Unfixed: Picturing Identity, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2023 CADD, Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, bus tour, Dallas, TX
2023 Ro2 Art Gallery, new location, Dallas, TX, USA
2022 Benefit Auction, The Untitled Space, Tribeca, New York City, NY2022 Benefit Auction, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA
2022 Gallery Preview, Group Exhibition, Ro2, Dallas, TX
2022 The Grand Exhibition, Masonic Temple in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2022 Spot on #3, D’art Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2022 Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI, USA2022 Chaos, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 True Stories, The Untitled Space, NYC, NY, USA
2022 Mark, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2020 Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 Chaos, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX
2018 GoggleWorks, Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, USA
2018 Punch Gallery, Ellensburg, WA, USA
2018 Brownsville Museum of Fine Art’s 46th International Art Exhibition, Brownsville, TX, USA
2018 At the Surface, Foundry Art Center, St, Charles, MO, USA
2018 Objectified, CiCa Museum, Chong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea
2017 Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California, USA
2017 Dab Art, Ventura, California, USA
2016 RAW, Rome Art Week, showing with Fondazione Per L’Arte
2016 Waterside Art Centre, Manchester, UK
2016 Ambition and Identity, Home Project, Manchester, UK
2015 40×40, GX Gallery, London, UK
2015 ING EYE exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2015 Carven Gallery, London, UK
2015 Fresh Paint Biennial, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2014 Detail, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2014 The Image of the Emotion, BAC, Bogota, Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
2014 Detail, H Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand2013 Not Just for Christmas, Contemporary Art Society, Manchester, UK
2013 5th Annual contemporary Exhibition, Ludlow Open, Ludlow, UK
2013 Schools of Art. Vol. 3, Oktogon der HfBK Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2013 Petty Theft, Launch f18, New York, USA
2012 NOAC, Prince’s Foundation Gallery, London, UK
2012 Microarte., Liebre Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2012 NOAC winners show, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2012 NOAC, Minerve Gallery, Chichester, UK
2012 New Sensations 2012, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2011 Annual Exhibition, Hive Projects Space, Rochdale, UK
2011 Open Studios Days, Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK
2011 Drawing Connection, Institute of Art, Siena, Italy
Artist Talks
2023 Ro2 Art “Owing to the Absence” Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2019 Hopkins Center for the Arts Redepenning Gallery, Hopkins, MA, USA
2017 Artist Talk at Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Davie, FL, USA
2016 Artist Talk ‘Beyond Painting’ at University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
2014 Artist Talk and Workshop, Nogales School, Bogota, Colombia
2012 Heads&Whole – Talking Heads, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby, UK
2012 Encontro II de Novos Artistas, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Employment
2018-20 Adjunct, Senior Residency Program, Dallas School District, Dallas, TX, USA
2019 Adjunct, Southern Methodist University
2016 Adjunct at University of Idaho, ID, USA
2006 Peter and The Wolf, Suzieh Templeton, SE-MA-FOR Studio Lodz, Lodz Poland
The animation got an Oscar Prize in 2008.
2003 Ichtis, Marek Skrobecki, SE-MA-FOR Studio Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Publications
2021 Manifest Annual Publication, Book
2017 Hear My Voice, Bartosz Beda, Zebra One Gallery, London, UK
2016 INPA 6, Manifest Gallery, Ohio, USA
2014 Axis Gallery, exhibition catalog, California, USA
2014 Emerging Drawing Prize, Winners Catalog, USA
2012 Saatchi New Sensations, Saatchi Gallery, exhibition catalog, London, UK
2012 The Art Catlin Guide, UK
2012 NOAC, winners catalog, London, UK
Articles/Press
Dallas Voyage 11.05.2021
Dazed Beauty, Exhibiiton Exploring the Realities of Body Dysmorphia, 20.11.2018
Fab Magazine UK, feaature, 07.11.2018
Our Culture; review, 01.12.2018
Fulton Daily News, article, 01.12.2018
The New York Journal, artiscle, 27.10.2018
Dapper Dude, 27.10.2018
SavvyPainter, podcast by Antrese Wood, 10.07.2018
The Sociological Mail, interview, 16.06.2018
69 News for WFMZ TV, 2min story by Tom Rader, 14.06.2018
BCTV.org, article, 18.06.2018
Reading Eagle, feature, 17.06.2018
WeLab Magazine, interview, 01.05.2018
Authentic. Magazine, article, USA 11.03.2018
Nora Gouma Magazine, interview, 04.03.2018
The Drum, article, USA 01.03.2018
BuzzFeed, article, USA 18.02.2018
A Rain of Thought, article, USA 14.02.2018
Moscow-Pullman Daily News, article, Moscow-Pullman, ID, USA 16.01.2018
The Guardian, article, London, UK, 20.05.2017
NatWest, article, London, UK, 01.02.2017
Art Chowder, article, Spokane, WA 01.02.2017
Spekesman Review, Spokane, WA 01.07.2016
Inlander, Spokane, WA, USA 01.07.2016
Met Magazine Autumn / Winter 2016, Manchester, UK 25.10.2016
York Press, York, UK, 01.03.2016
Expose Art Magazine, USA 01 Dec 2016
Fresh Pain Magazine, UK 01 Oct 2015
Article in Manchester Evening News, UK 20 July 2015
Featured in Ann Arbor News Magazine, USA 01 May 2015
Review of solo exhibition Blast of Absolute, USA 01 Jan 2015
Featured in Exposed Magazine USA 01 Dec 2014
Interview for Arteon, Art Magazine in Poland 01 Sept 2014
Interview by Emily Spicer for Studio International, UK 22 July 2014
Featured in the Independent, UK 01 June 2014
Featured in the Guardian, UK 01 June 2013
Radcliffe Times Interview by Tui Benjamin, UK 30 May 2013
Featured in Radio 4’s consumer affairs programme “You & Yours” by Catherine Carr: Art as an investment, London, UK
The Telegraph, UK
National Open Art Competition, UK
AN Magazine – Interview by Richard Taylor, UK
Manchester Contemporary Art Fair , UK 2012
AxisWeb, Mastars UK 2012
Creative Times, UK 2011
Film Polski, Poland1Ten Strarts From One