About The Artist

Adam Niklewicz www.adamniklewicz.com Born in Poland; lives and works in North Haven, CT, USA Adam Niklewicz earned his BFA in graphic communications from Washington University in St. Louis (1989) and his MFA in sculpture from State University of New York at Purchase (2006).   His work has been featured and discussed in ARTnews, Art New England, Aesthetica, CNN Style, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Modern Painters Magazine, The Huffington Post, and the Nation, among others, and in Poland, in Artpunkt, Exit, Format, Obieg and Szum magazines.   He has shown at such venues as Real Art Ways, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Stamford Museum, Grounds for Sculpture, Black & White Gallery, FiveMyles, Slag Gallery, EBK Gallery, Hudson Valley MOCA, Galerie fur Landschaftskunst (Hamburg, Germany), Gallery of Contemporary Art (Opole, Poland), FWD: Gallery (Poznań, Poland),  Zacheta (Warsaw, Poland), Arte Laguna Prize 2014 / the Arsenale (Venice, Italy), Art-Zavod Platforma / Gogolfest (Kiev, Ukraine), JUMP Gallery (Poltava, Ukraine), and York Art Gallery (York, UK). Poetic, surreal, and bringing a welcome quality of humour and satire, the images of Adam Niklewicz aim to poke holes in the illusion of a sanitized reality, defending the role of art as a free zone for expression. - Aesthetica Magazine