Tomasz Mróz, born in 1979, is an artist who creates surreal and grotesque sculptures, installations, and video works. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He co-founded the artist’s collective Penerstwo together with Wojciech Bąkowski and Iza Tarasewicz among others. His art blends dark humor with disturbing imagery, featuring mutated figures and exaggerated forms that embrace the ugly and malformed. Drawing from pop culture and mythology, he constructs a bizarre, dreamlike dystopian world that feels both unsettling and strangely familiar.

He lives and works in Warsaw.

 

Selected solo and duo exhibitions:

2025

Burrow, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw, PL

2021

Untitled, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL

2019

All the Times Present Here, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki, Gorzów Wielkopolski, PL

2018

All the Times Present Here, Galeria Skala, Poznań, PL

Jerzy Bereś, Tomasz Mróz, (duo exhibition), Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2017

Exercises in Self-Destruction, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL

2016

I Can See Crevices in a Clod, I Heal with a Spit, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL

2015

Défaitisme, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL

2014

Sleep Sound in the Cosmos, the Turtle Won’t F… You, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, PL

2013

God Hasn’t Made a Mistake Mother, Gdańsk Municipal Gallery 1, Gdańsk, PL

2011

E.Y.M/B.B., Platan Gallery, Budapest, HU

2010

From life to death. Retrospective. Cheating flea, Galeria Czarna, Warsaw, PL

2008

Evil III Come Back or kulka w łeb for myself, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL

OMMMMMM…, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra, PL

2007

You Big Mug..., Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL

Revelation, ON, Poznań, PL

Revelation, Artpol, Cracow, PL

2006

Self-Portrait, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL

 

Selected group exhibitions:

2023 

Sun Came First, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL

Gypsum Flesh Story, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Cracow, PL

2021

Hybrids – From the Lives of Individuals , LELE Art Space, Warsaw, PL

Pure Crystal, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2019

The Rose and the Ring, Polana Institute, Petrykozy, PL

Happiness is Born in the Guts, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, PL

2018

I’m in Love with the Virgin Vistula, Gdańsk Municipal Gallery 2, Gdańsk, PL

Speedway in Art, BWA Gallery, Tarnów, PL,

Speedway in Art, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki, Gorzów Wielkopolski, PL

Farmhands in Factories and Boas in Brasseries, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL

2017

Detsky Sen, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL

Monuments, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Pernicious Predilection, Labirynth Gallery, Lublin, PL

Neverland, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL

2016

A Place, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, PL

Money to Burn, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

It isn’t important, it’s only art…, National Center for Contemporary Art, Minsk, BY

2015

Sandra Art Gallery present: Horsefuckers, Project Room, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL

This is Not a Rose, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL

Common Sets, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL

2014

Crimestory, Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, PL

Stendhal Syndrome, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin, PL

2013

To Draw, Anna Nova Gallery, Saint Petersburg, RU

It isn’t important, it’s only art…, Emila Filly Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ

Exhibition of Moving Images, Czułość Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2012

Scontrum. Evolutions, Królikarnia – Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, National Museum, Warsaw, PL

Happiness is a Warm Gun, Rizzordi Art Foundation, Saint Petersburg, RU

Coming Soon, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE

Arbeitsdisziplin. The Spirit of Poznań Art Around 2012, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL

2011

Nothing is Eternally Important, Center of Contemporary Art. Znaki Czasu, Toruń, PL

Concious Consents, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL

Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Award, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Cracow, PL

2009

Travel Agency (happening with Penerstwo Group), Fabryka Sztuki ms2, Łódź, PL

8th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial, National Museum, Szczecin, PL

Agent Absurd, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, UK

Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire, Lille 3000-Europe XXL, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, FR

2008

Establishment (and its disconnects), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL

5th Young Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, PL

Dreaming Bodies, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL

Face Lifting, Studio Gallery, Budapest, HU

Belly, Słodownia Gallery, Poznań, PL

2007

Penerstwo, PGR ART, Gdańsk, PL

Penerstwo, C.K.K., Słupsk, PL

2006

Plastic People, C2C Gallery, Prague, CZ

The End My Friend, Spielhaus Morrison Gallery, Berlin, DE