Born in Krakow (PL) in 1945, Tomasz Ciecierski lives and works in Warsaw (PL).
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he graduated in 1971. He was a master student of Prof. Krystyna Łada-Studnicka (1907 – 1999).
In 1981, he had a work stay at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. From 1972 to 1985, he served as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (PL).
In 1990 and 1991, he had a work stay for the Musée d'art Contemporain in Nîmes. He participated in prestigious international art exhibitions, including the Biennale in Sydney (1984) and in São Paulo (1987) and the Documenta in Kassel (1992). In 1999, he was awarded the Jan-Cybis-Prize for his artistic work.
Tomasz Ciecierski's work is a kind of reflection on the nature of painting. In his paintings, he describes the process of reflecting on art and its carriers. In his early works, the artist depicted painting utensils as well as the process of creating a painting. Since the early 1990s, the dominant theme of his painting has been the landscape, which was previously considered one of the elements of the image structure. However, realistic representations from the beginning of his work gradually became more synthetic and approached the border of abstraction.
Since this time, Ciecierski has been constructing his works - in a characteristic way for him - by assembling several separate fragments within a painting. He combines formally different elements that complement the main representation. More interested in the creative process than in art itself, he uses the technique of combining landscape with abstract signs, sketchy drawings with concrete painterly forms.
