Pawel Kruk (b. 1976) lives in Bolinas, USA. He holds an MA in Drawing from the Fine Arts Academy in Poznan. A participant of the Advanced Art Course with Marina Abramović organized by Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, Italy, and recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies, Kruk is also a two time beneficiary of the Young Poland Award. He is also an alumni of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2011-2012). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘All That is Solid Melts into Air, all That is Holy is Profaned,’ National Museum in Krakow, Poland (2015); ‘Remigare Necesse Est Vivere Non Est Necesse,’ HMK, Hoorn, NL (with Seamus Cater) (2015); ‘Egyptian Secrets or Pawel Investigates the Afterlife of James Lee Byars,’ Beirut, Cairo, Egypt (2014).