Jan Tutaj

Jan Tutaj was born on August 26, 1969 in Jasło. A graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In the 1993/94 academic year, a study internship at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Nuremberg. Diploma with distinction in the studio of prof. Józef Sękowski in 1994. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and Art (1993), in 1999 he also received the Creative Scholarship of the City of Krakow. A research and didactic employee of the parent department. He is currently chief a sculpture studio at sculpture department of Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He deals with sculpture, object and drawing. He presented his works at eleven individual exhibitions, among others in the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, BWA in Bydgoszcz, CSV SOLVAY in Krakow, North-Pomeranian Museum in Łomża, Palace of Art in Krakow, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Włocławek, BWA in Rzeszów, Galeria Biała NCK in Krakow. He participated in dozens of exhibitions and group shows in Poland and abroad, including in Lyon (France), Ronneby (Sweden), Nuremberg (Germany), Seixal (Portugal), Colorado Springs (USA), Brienz (Switzerland), Sakaide (Japan), Tampere (Finland), Weisenohe (Germany), CRP in Orońsko , Cracow, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, Gdańsk, Radom, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Zabrze, Tarnobrzeg, Nowy Sącz, Zamość, Wieliczka, Zakopane, and Żyrardów. He took part in many nationwide sculptural competitions, including in Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Radom, Poznań, Warsaw, Przemyśl and Zamość, where he was awarded prizes and honors. In 2009, he won the first prize in the national competition for the Monument of Jan Matejko in Krakow (realized in 2013) and a number of prizes and awards in numerous competitions for realizations in public space (including Warsaw, Gdynia, Radom). He is also the author of m.in. a monument to the Sons of the Earth Sanok, Fallen and Murdered for Poland in Sanok and the Siberian Monument in Augustów (a team), a monument to Filip de Girard in Żyrardów. He participated in several international sculptural and sculpture symposia in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Turkey. Works presented in public spaces, min. in Poland, Germany. Switzerland and Turkey.