"I would like what I paint to have the dimension of a touch, of some trace, and at the same time an experience of something greater."
Professor Marian Wołczuk is a visual artist, painter, draughtsman and teacher from Wrocław, Poland. He was born in 1942 in Podkamień in today's Ukraine. He studied at the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław under the supervision of Professor Zbigniew Karpiński (1920-1996), graduating in 1970. From 1973 he worked at the university as an academic teacher. In 1986-1987 he held the posts of Vice-Dean, between 1987 and 1990 - of Dean, and from 1991 to 2005 - of Head of the Department of General Artistic Education in the Faculty of Interior Design and Industrial Design. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and Full Professor in 1991.
He has had over fifty individual exhibitions of paintings and drawings, and has shown his works at international exhibitions in Portugal, Canada, Spain, Japan, Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, the USA and Australia, among others. Since 1970 he has participated in more than eighty national exhibitions, where he has received numerous awards and honours. He is a two-time laureate of the Minister of Culture Award, and in 2012 he was awarded the Gloria Artis bronze medal for his cultural and artistic activity.
Works by Marian Wołczuk can be found in private and museum collections in Poland, the USA, Australia, Switzerland, and Sweden.
