Bartosz Beda is a Polish-born artist who resides and paints in the United States. His work focuses on political and social matters that unveil themselves in complex meanings. Artworks by Bartosz Beda have educative purposes that show recent national and cultural issues.
Puzzle as Art
Beda’s artistic approach exposes on canvas intellectual puzzlement of the internal social disagreement of reality and hope and his personal struggle as well.
State if Fear and Love
When a viewer examines Beda’s paintings, they are allured into a state of fear, love, anguish, and other human awareness of conflict. Beda, through his art, says that there can be no powerful end to the search for happiness, no matter how much we might aspire for it. The illusion of the exploration is an improbability, or so he thinks these paintings discover.
Brownsville Museum of Fine Art
He just had an opening of a solo exhibition at Brownsville Museum of Fine Art this year.
Artist Biography
Born in Poland in 1984, Bartosz Beda moved 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 as one of the most promising emerging artists for the 2012 Catlin Art Guide in the United Kingdom. Short-listed for the Title Art Prize, the Door Prize, and selected for The Saatchi New Sensations 2012, group exhibition in London for most exciting graduate students in the UK. He won the esteemed Towry Award for the Best of the North of England 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, USA, 2014. Recently, Bartosz won first place for Interstate Group Exhibition, CWU Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, WA, USA, 2017
Beda’s art has been extensively interviewed and referenced for The Independent, Studio International, Expose Art Magazine, Creative Times, Radcliffe Times, A-N Magazine, Mastars at Axisweb, Arteon Art Magazine, Expose Magazine, Spokesman-Review, BuzzFeed, Daily News and featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, Money Week, NatWest, Inlander. He was mentioned on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013 as ‘one to watch.’ He now lives and works in the United States.
