Artist statement
Art does not happen on canvas. It happens inside the mind of the observer.
The darkness in my paintings is a wall I build around them. Light does not illuminate — it lays bare what the figure would rather keep to themselves. In every painting, light is the other character.
Bio
Dariusz Strzeboński (b. 1984, Kraków, Poland) — painter, oil on canvas. Lives and works in Wieliczka. Painting since 2021. His work depicts people observed in private moments and places marked by absence. He works with a dark, restrained palette and isolated colour accents. Light in his paintings functions as an autonomous presence — it does not complete the scene but opens it.
Collections
- 2026 "Steelworker II" in the collection of the Regional Museum in Skawina, PL
Exhibitions & Auctions
- 2026 "Steelworker II" acquired by the Regional Museum in Skawina, PL
- 2026 Solo exhibition, "What's left" Regional Museum, Skawina, PL
- 2026 "Debiuty II" Art Competition — laureate (21/350+), Maya Art Gallery, Toruń, PL
- 2026 Group exhibition, "Women in artists' eyes" Regional Museum, Skawina, PL
- 2025 Auction debut, Pragaleria, Warsaw, PL
- 2025 Group exhibition, SDK "SEM" Zgierz, PL
- 2025 Solo exhibition, "Life, soul, light: Skawina" Pałacyk Sokół, Skawina, PL
- 2024 Solo exhibition, "Life, soul, light: Krowodrza" Krakow Library branch no. 20, Krakow, PL
- 2024 Group exhibition, SDK "SEM", Zgierz, PL
Other Light
Interviews with painters working from darkness. Read →