About Simon Pruciak
Simon Pruciak is a visual artist, photographer also working with moving image, researcher and academic.
Born and raised in Poland, educated in Ireland, USA and the UK, having lived for a year in Ghana, he is currently based in Cyprus with strong presence in the UK.
Pruciak is also a DoP. Projects for which he directed the cinematography were premiered during the 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022 (also direction and production) Venice Biennale.
Currently Pruciak is a PhD candidate in School of Humanities and Social Sciences, in the Department of Communications at the University of Nicosia with thesis “Historic Trade routes as liminal spaces – immersive journeys from physical to virtual and back.”
2018
Common Territories. The Royal Geographical Society. London.UK.Common Territories. Zampelas Museum of Art. Nicosia. Cyprus2017All Inked UP. International Artist Book Festival. Canterbury, UK.Theoretical Archeology. Cardiff University, UK.
2017
All Inked UP. International Artist Book Festival. Canterbury, UK.Theoretical Archeology. Cardiff University, UK.
2016
Confined Projections. International Festival of Projections. Canterbury, UK.Alternative Vision. Haohaus Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.EINA, Espai Barra de Ferro, Barcelona, Spain.
2015
Image of the Road. Centre for Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan.Frontiére et Territoire. Maison de l’Artet de la Communication, Sallaumines, France.Image of the Road. James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK.
2014
Image of the Road. Palais de Nations, Geneva, SwitzerlandPropositions. Brewery Tap, Folkestone, Kent, UK. Propositions. ESADAHR Gallery, Le Havre, France. Propositions. Studio 65, Rouen, France.And may there be no sadness of farewell.39, Folkestone, Kent, UK.
2013
Image of the Road. Hall of the Nations, Faridabad, India Image of the Road. Experimental Art gallery, Habitat Contemporary Art Centre. Delhi. India
2012
Points of view. Valetta. Malta.Sheffield Photographic Exhibition. Sheffield. UK.51:Zero voyager. Film festival. Rochester. UK
2011
MA Interim Show. Upper Street Gallery. London.MAP11. The Galleries. London. UK
2010
Landmark Art Festival. London, UK.Imagine a Spectacle. Herbert Read Gallery. Canterbury. UK.
2009
Out of Range. The Rag Factory, London, UK.The 2009 Photo Show. Zandra Rhodes Gallery. Rochester, UK.CAF. Canterbury. UK
2008
Beyond Perception. Woodward Gallery, Baltimore, USA. The Sensual Perception. Town Gallery, Zory, Poland. Quotidianus. Town Gallery, Zory, Poland.
2007
Design UK, British Council Exhibition.Guanghzou, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu. China Dimensions. A Photographic exploration of time, space and reality. Rochester, UK2006Monique. The Business Gallery. Nenagh, Co.Tipperary, Ireland.