Artist: Henry Kondracki

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“As a painter I believe in painting that gives rather than withholds: an intimate art that is alive, joyful, and celebratory. A healing art”

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Michael Richardson Art Space
        Lemon Street Gallery
2007 Flowers, New York
2004 Open Eye gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Flowers Central, London
2001 Flowers East, London
2000 “Kondracki’s Edinburgh, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California
1998 Flowers Graphics, London
        Flowers East, London
1997 Bellevue Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 Flowers East at London Fields, London
1995 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1994 William Jackson Gallery, London
        Gallery M, London
1992 The Artists’ Collective Gallery, London
1991 “Easter Road”, William Jackson Gallery, London
1989 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1988 Michael Wardell Gallery, London
1987 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1984 The Artists’ Collective Gallery, London
1979 Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Festival Exhibition, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 “Discerning Eye” Exhibition
        Lynn Painter Stainers Exhibition
        Singer Friedlander Exhibition
        Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
        Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
        “Discerning Eye” Exhibition (invited artist)
        Lynn Painter Stainers Exhibition
        Singer Friedlander Exhibition
2005 Hyman Kondracki Osuga, Flowers East, London
        Angela Flowers Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London
2004 “Small Is Beautiful: Self Portrait” Flowers Central, London
2001 Hunting Group Competition
        Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2000 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London
        Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
        Artists’ Choice, Flowers East, London
        Flowers 2, Flowers Central, London
        30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California
        “Small Is Beautiful: Self Portrait”, Flowers East, London
1999 “British Figurative Art Part 3: Flowers East, London
1998 “New British Painting 1”, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California
        “The Print Show 1998”, Flowers Graphics, London
1997 “Heads” (Monoprints), Flowers graphics, London
        “British Figurative Art Part 1: Painting”, Flowers East, London
        “Small Is Beautiful XV. Death”, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1996 “A Scottish Renaissance, Contemporary Painting in Scotland”, The Rotunda, Hong Kong
        “Wheels on Fire: Cars in Art 1950-1996”, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
        “Small Is Beautiful Part XIV: Sex”, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1994 “Witnesses & Dreamers”, Oliver Bevan Touring Show
1993-4 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Invited Artist
1993 “Hope and Despair – English Figurative Art”, Crane Gallery, London
        “The Selected Line”, William Jackson Gallery, London
        “Polish Routes; British Soul”, Edinburgh City Art Touring Show
1992-3 “Figure in the City”, Talbot Rice Gallery Touring Exhibition: Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels
1991 “Directors Choice”, The Scottish Gallery, London
        “Travel Fresh Horizons”, Spectator/Adam & Co Art Prize
        “Big Little Picture Show”, William Jackson Gallery, London
1990 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
        “The Sporting Life”, Flowers East, London
        Gallery Artists, The Scottish Gallery, London
1989 “Contemporary Drawings”, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1988 Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
        Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop
        “A Personal Choice by Jeffery Camp”, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
        “Off The Wall”, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
        Riverside Open, Riverside Studios, London
        Milburn & Arte, Sydney, Australia
1987 Nice Art Fair, France
        Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
        “The Big Fight”, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
        “Southbank Picture Show”, Royal Festival Hall, London
1986 “John Moores Exhibition”, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
        The Marlow Rank Xerox Collection
        “Peter Moores Collection”, The Walker Gallery, Liverpool
        “Cityscape: The Changing Face of London”, Arthur Anderson & Co, London
        “The Small Picture Show”, Mercury Gallery, Edinburgh
1985 Artists Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
        “Whitworth Young Contemporaries”, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
        Winter Show, Blond Fine Art, London
1984-5 Leicestershire Exhibition at Beaumanor Hall, Leicestershire
1984 Society of Scottish Artists 90th Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
1983 “Whitworth Young Contemporaries”, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

AWARDS
2004 Hunting Art Prize (1st Prize)
        Singer Friedlander (2nd Prize)
2000 Hunting Group (Regional Prize)
1999 Cheltenham Drawing Prize
1997 Noble Grossard, Scotland on Sunday (3rd Prize)
1995 Prize Winner, John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool
1991 Spectator/Adam & Co Art Prize – Travel Fresh Horizons
1987 South Bank Board Prize
1986 Slade Prize in Fine Art, for the session 1985-6
1985 Slade Prize in Fine Art, for the session 1984-5
1984 The Rodney Burn Prize at the Slade for best figurative work 1983-4
1983 The Sir William Coldstream Prize at Slade Whitworth Young Contemporaries, a Granada Foundation         award
1979 Scottish Arts Council, Minor Bursary
1978 Scottish Arts Council, Materials and Costs Award

COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain
BAS Investments UK
British Council
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Glasgow City Museums and Galleries
Granada Foundation, Manchester
Guildhall, London
Manchester City Art Gallery
Royal Bank of Scotland
Scottish Provident
Standard Life
University College London
Virgin Atlantic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 The Sun, New York
2005 The Artist
2005 The Hunting Art Prizes Catalogue
1995 Street Life at Gallery M, James Hobbs

1953 Born, Edinburgh
1981-2 Byam Shaw School of Art, London
1982-6 Slade School of Fine Art, London: BA in Fine Art (1st Class Honours)