Born in Gdansk, Poland in 1967. Lives in London.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, 1985-1990.
MA Fine Art Painting, 1990.
My work is focused on human figure and autobiographical. I work exclusively from life.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Works on Paper, Benenden School
2009 Slawek Gora, TheStudio, Southampton
2003 Slawomir Gora, Painting, Poznanska Galeria Nowa, Poznan
2001 German Car, Italian Suit (Shoes from London), Laznia Centre of Contemporary Art, Gdansk
2000 Lost Girls, KulturKontakt Gastatelier, Vienna
1995 New York/ Culture and Art 4, Laznia Centre of Contemporary Art, Gdansk
1995 Culture and Art 3: Brief History of Contemporary Painting, Baltic Sea Culture Centre, Gdansk
1993 Culture and Art 2, Wyspa Gallery, Gdansk
1990 Slawomir Gora, Wyspa Gallery,Gdansk
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition and Exhibition, Kings Place Gallery, London
2011 ArtWorks Open 2011, ArtWorks Project Space, London
2011 6 International Biennial of Painting and Unique Fabric, Museum of the City of Gdynia, Gdynia
2009 Grenzenlos, 20 Jahre danach, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw
2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London
2007 Canterbury Festival Art Fair, University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
2004 Painting of the Year 2003, Królikarnia Palace, National Museum, Warsaw
2003 Zeitgenossische Polnische Kunst, Galerie Bertrand Kass, Innsbruck
2002 19th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Szczecin
2001 Christmas Tree, Laznia Center of Contemporary Art, Gdansk
1999 Fotogenom, Spiz 7, Gdansk
1996 Jupiter, Spiz 7, Gdansk
1996 Murales, Kliniczna Street, Gdansk
1995 Master Class in Painting with Jorg Immendorff, Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam
1993 National Exhibition of Young Painting, Bureau of Art Exhibitions, Wroclaw
1992 Culture and Art, C14, Gdansk
1991 Sites, C14, Gdansk
1989 Pampers Maxi 2, former Norblin Factory, Warsaw
1989 3rd Biennial of New Art, Zielona Gora
1989 Pampers Maxi, PP Sztuka Polska, Bydgoszcz
Publications
Artist’s delight, Lucie Richards, Gazette, Basingstoke, 2/02/2009
Swieci I zycie ludzi (Saints and the life of people), (Bran), Glos Wielkopolski, 31/07/2003
Nie byc mieszczuchem (Don’t be a city-slicker), Anna Urbanczyk, Gazeta Wyborcza Trojmiasto, 7/12/2001
Grzechy Dwurnika i telenowela Gory (Sins of Dwurnik and the soap opera of Gora), Beata Czechowska-Derkacz, Glos Wybrzeza, 7/11/2001
Glowy na murach (Heads on the walls), Dorota Sobieniecka, Dziennik Baltycki, 27/9/96
Powrot do malarstwa (Return to painting), Ewa Moskalowna, interview with Slawomir Gora, Gazeta Miasta Sopot, 29/10/1995
Sztuka jaka jest: Bede wystawial kazdego dobrego artyste (Art as it is: I will show every single good artist), Ewa Moskalowna’s talk with Ryszard Ziarkiewicz, Director of Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki (The State Art Gallery) in Sopot, Glos Wybrzeza, 16/8/1993
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