Jacek Dehnel (b. 1980), Untitled, 1999

pastel, cardboard, 57 x 32.5 cm (clear passe-partout), signed p.d.: 'Jacek Dehnel 1999'
Poet, translator, prose writer, painter. Lives and works in Warsaw. His mother is the painter Anna Karpinska-Dehnel. Graduate of the 5th Stefan Żeromski High School in Gdańsk Oliwa and the Interdepartmental Individual Humanistic Studies at the University of Warsaw. Scholarship holder of the National Fund for Children. For his debut volume of poetry, "Parallel Lives," he received the Koscielski Foundation Award in 2005. In 2007 he was awarded the Paszport Polityki prize in the literature category. He was nominated four times for the Nike Literary Award - in 2009 for his book "Balzakiana," a year later for "Control Screen," in 2012 for "Saturn," and in 2015 for "Mother Macrina." He was awarded the bronze medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis. He is a member of the Program Council of the Zachęta Gallery.