Painter, Graphic Artist, and Draftsman
Born 1957 in Kraków, Poland
Jacek Sroka studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he received his diploma in 1981 in the etching studio of Professor Mieczysław Wejman.
From 1981 to 1990, he worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. Between 2014 and 2018, he was a co-founder of the Printmaking Center in Nantong, China.
Sroka’s artistic practice is as multifaceted as life itself. His works merge socially critical themes with grotesque scenes, placing the human being at the center of the tension between power, morality, and absurdity — all interwoven with irony, symbolism, and a deep, often unsettling humor.
Over the course of his career, Sroka has presented his paintings and prints in more than 120 solo exhibitions and several hundred group exhibitions worldwide.
His works are held in numerous international museum collections, including:
National Museum, Kraków
Museum of Art, Łódź
Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Albertina, Vienna
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Print Room, National Library of France, Paris
Oscar Niemeyer Museum
as well as in many private collections.
The artist has received numerous honors and awards. He was nominated for the Paszport Polityki (1996), received the Witold Wojtkiewicz Prize (2001), the Bronze Medal “Gloria Artis” (2016), the “Vive l’Art” Medal from the Kraków District of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) (2019), and the Medal for the 100th Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence (2024).
