Bartosz Beda "Green Frame of Mind 101"
Bartosz Beda "Green Frame of Mind 101" 2021
Painting: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions 20 x 16in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Bartosz Beda was born in Poland in 1984. He relocated to the UK in 2008 to study at the Manchester School of Art. After graduating in 2012 with an MA in Fine Art, Beda was selected for the 2012 Catlin Art Guide as the most promising emerging artist in the UK. Short-listed for the Title Art Prize, the Door Prize, and selected for The Saatchi New Sensations 2012, a group exhibition in London for the most exciting graduate students in the UK. He won the esteemed Towry Award for the Best of the North of England in 2012. Beda was a finalist for the Williams Drawing Prize in Connecticut, the USA in 2014, won second place in the Viewpoints 2014 competition at the Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art in New Jersey 2014. Recently, Bartosz won first place for Interstate Group Exhibition, CWU Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, WA, USA, 2017. Beda was awarded a six-month scholarship from Manchester Metropolitan University to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, Germany in 2012/13, and received a fellowship from Fondazione per l’Arte, Rome, Italy in 2016. In 2018, Bartosz Beda was awarded a fellowship residency at Google, Center for the Arts in Reading, PA.
Beda’s works are in the public collection at Reading Public Museum, Brownsville Museum, Siena Art Institute, and Fondazione per l’Arte, as well as in private collections throughout Europe, the United States, South Africa, and Asia. Beda’s art has been widely interviewed and referenced for The Independent, Studio International, Expose Art Magazine, Creative Times, Radcliffe Times, A-N Magazine, Masters at Axisweb, Arteon Art Magazine, Expose Magazine, Spokesman-Review, BuzzFeed, Daily News, and featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph and Money Week., NatWest, Inlander. Mentioned on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013 as “one to watch”. He now lives and works in the United States.