Rafał Zajko
Rafał Zajko is a Polish artist based in London, UK. His work deals with issues around the industrial past exploring its environmental impact in relation to working class heritage and queer identities.
His sculptural practice incorporates diverse materials and processes, including ceramic, ventilation systems, prosthetics, and performance as a means to examine Polish folklore, science fiction and queer technoscience; placing emphasis on the industrial materials and processes that resonate with and honour his heritage.
Rafał Zajko (b. 1988, Białystok, Poland) holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include Amber Waves II, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma, Mallorca (2022). Song to the Siren, Cooke Latham Gallery, London (2022), Amber Waves at Public Gallery, London (2021), Resuscitation, Castor Projects, London, UK (2020); We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy, Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Białystok, Poland (2019); Unputdownable, White Cubicle, London (2018). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including shows at London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, X Museum, Beijing, China (2020); Bold Tendencies, London, UK (2020); Grand Union, Birmingham (2019) Goswell Rd, Paris, France (2019); Ashes/Ashes, New York, USA (2019); EXILE, Vienna, Austria (2019); Vitrine, Basel, Switzerland (2019); Litost, Prague, Czech Republic (2018); Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK (2016). Rafal Zajko is currently working on a public commission with Wysing Arts Centre and St. Peters School in Cambridge (2023).
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B. 1988 in Białystok, PL
Education
Goldsmiths, MFA Fine Art, 2016-2020, UK
Chelsea College of Art, BA HONS, Fine Art, 2009–2012, UK
Central Saint Martins, Foundation in Art and Design, 2008–2009, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2023 (Upcoming) Queercircle, London, SOLO SHOW (2023)
2023 (Upcoming) Wysing Arts Centre, Public Comission (2023)
2022 Amber Waves II (The Blaze), Galeria Fran Reus, Mallorca, Spain
2022 Song to the Siren, Cooke Latham Galley, London, UK
2021 Amber Waves / Bursztynowe Fale, Public Gallery, London, UK
2020 Resuscitation, Castor Projects, London, UK
2019 We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy, Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Bialystok, PL
2018 SOFTWARE, Three Works, Scarborough, UK
2018 Jaka Praca Dzis–Takie Nasze Jutro, Castor Projects, London, UK
2018 Unputdownable, White Cubicle, London, UK
2018 Hopeless Roma NTIC, Changing Room, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, UK
2023 Digesting the future, Badr El Jundi, Madrid, Spain
2023 Player Piano, ArtStation, Saxmundham, UK
2023 Wink Wink, Whitaker Museum, Rossendale, UK
2022 My mother was a computer, Indigo + Madder, London, UK
2022 Swiat nie wierzy lzom, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
2022 London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London,
2021 NOT PAINTING, Copperfield, London, UK
2021 New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, UK
2021 New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
2021 Relic, APT, London UK
2020 '4 | 14 26 Degrees East, Wiels Annex, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Age of Ephemerality, X Museum, Beijing, China
2020 Clay TM , TJ Boulting, London, UK
2020 Bold Tendencies 2020 , London, UK
2020 Circa, Piccadilly circus screen show, London, UK
2020 Jenny from the block, Fotopub festival Project Space, Ljubliana, SVN
2020 Habitual, group show, Castor Projects, London, UK
2019 4FSB, group show, Goswell Rd, Paris, FR
2019 Nostromo, group show, Ashes/Ashes, New York, USA
2019 1999 – the One, group show, Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto, SVN
2019 Absinthe §2, group show, Spit & Sawdust, London, UK
2019 On the Subject of Precarity, group show, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
2019 Ocular Inc., group show, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
2019 Halfway House, group show, Exile, Vienna, AUT
2019 If its not meant to last, the its Performance, group show, Vitrine, Basel, CH
2018 To the Core , group show, White Crypt, London, UK
2018 Invasive Behaviour , group show, Cole Projects, London, UK
2018 The Haptic House , group show, Horse and Pony Gallery, Berlin, GER
2018 Failure , group show, Litost, Prague, CH
2018 Art of Translation, group show, MMAG Foundation, Amman, JOR