Details

First Name

Bartosz

Last Name

Kosowski

Nickname

bartoszkosowski

Gender

Male

Briography & Awards

Biography

I am an illustrator and poster artist based in Lodz, Poland. I was educated at Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts and Design. Dealing mostly with posters, portraits and editorial illustrations, I have been lucky enough to create award winning posters for numerous films and I have cooperated with such clients as Legendary Pictures, Apple, Canal +, Netflix, Orange, ING, “The New Yorker”, “The Economist” “The New Republic”, “The Hollywood Reporter”, “Smithsonian”, “Chicago Magazine”, “Washington Post”, “Politico” and “Newsweek”. My works have received one silver and three gold medals from Society of Illustrators New York and Los Angeles, Spectrum Gold and have been selected and awarded by American Illustration, World Illustration Awards, 3×3, Graphis, European Design Awards, Lahti Poster Biennale and New York Festival Awards. They have also be

en published in Taschen’s “Illustration Now! Vol.4”, Bloomsbury’s “Illustration – A Theoretical & Contextual Perspective”, Flesk’s “Spectrum” 23, 25, 26 and 27, Huginn & Muninn’s “Total Geek Art” and Lürzer’s Archive – “200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2011/2012″. For the last five years I have been Adobe Design Achievement Awards mentor.

Awards

EDUCATION:
2003 – 2007 – Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts – BFA – Graphic Arts (Lodz, Poland)
1998 – 2003 – University of Wroclaw – MA – English Phillology (Wroclaw, Poland)

AWARDS:
2021 – Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Silver Award in Institutional
2021- Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Selected for Illustration West 59
2020 – Klub Twórców Reklamy – Bronze Award
2020 – Spectrum 27 – Gold Award in Advertising
2020 – 3×3 Illustration Annual No.17 – Professional Show Winner
2020 – European Design Awards – Bronze
2020 – World Illustration Award – shortlisted for WIA
2020 – American Illustration – Chosen for American Illustration 39
2019 – Society of Illustrators New York – Selected for Illustrators 62
2019 – Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Selected for Illustration West 58
2019 – Spectrum 26 – Selected for Spectrum 26 Annual
2019 – Polish Graphic Design Awards – Main Award
2019 – 3×3 Illustration Annual No.16 – Professional Show Winner
2019- American Illustration – Chosen for American Illustration 38
2018 – Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Selected for Illustration West 57
2018 – 3×3 Illustration Annual No.15 – Professional Show Winner
2018 – Spectrum 25 – Selected for Spectrum 25 Annual
2017 – Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Honorable Mention in Entertainment/Visual Development
2017 – iJungle Illustration Award – Gold Medal in Commercial
2017 – World Illustration Award – shortlisted for WIA
2017 – 3×3 Illustration Annual No.14 – Professional Show Winner
2016 – Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Selected for Illustration West 55
2016 – Spectrum 23 – Finalist of Spectrum 23 Annual
2015 – Graphis – Merit (Poster Annual)
2015 – Society of Illustrators New York – Selected for Illustrators 58
2015 – European Design Awards – Bronze Award (Single Poster)
2015 – 3×3 Illustration Competition – Honorable Mention
2015 – American Illustration – Selected for American Illustration 34
2015 – World Illustration Award – shortlisted for WIA
2015 – Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Gold Award in Unpublished & Self-Promotional
2015 – Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Gold Award in Entertainment/Visual Development
2014 – Society of Illustrators New York – Gold Medal in Advertising
2013 – New York Festivals Awards – Finalist (Design: Illustration)
2013 – American Illustration – Chosen for American Illustration 32
2012 – American Illustration – Chosen for American Illustration 31
2012 – European Design Awards – Finalist (Book and Editorial Illustration)
2010 – Lürzer´s Archive – 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2011/2012
2008 – Associazione Culturale Good Design – Winner of “Good 50×70” International poster design contest
2007 – Fimios, Cultural Events of the Municipality of Ithaca – Merit at Ten Images For Ithaca – poster competition of the island of Ithaca
2005 – Lodz International Comic Book Festival – 1st prize in debutants category

EXHIBITIONS:
2020 – Obraz+Tekst+Sztuka – individual exhibition at Puls Literatury Festival (Dom Literatury), Lodz, Poland
2020 – The Dictionary of modern lodzianism (Miejscka Galeria Sztuki), Lodz, Poland
2019 – Cyprus Poster Triennial (NeMe Arts Centre), Limassol, Cyprus
2019 – The Dictionary of witty lodzianism (Galeria Willa), Lodz, Poland
2018 – Ecuador Poster Bienal (Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamín Carrión), Quito, Ecuador
2018 – Imaging Poland – Polish Movie Poster (Hong Kong Design Institute) Hong Kong
2018 – Gallerie Summertime (Gallerie d’Italia), Vicenza, Italy
2018 – Posterized. Poster Art from Poland – (PMQ), Hong Kong
2018 – Jak Sliwka w kompot. Polscy ilustratorzy Karolowi Śliwce (Centrum Designu Gdynia), Gdynia, Poland
2017 – Poster Quadrennial Bardejov, Bardejov, Slovakia
2017 – Lahti Poster Triennal (The Lahti Art Museum), Lahti, Finland
2017 – In Dreams – a group art tribute to David Lynch (Spoke Art Gallery), New York, USA
2016 – Cardistry (Hero Complex Gallery), Los Angeles, USA
2015 – World Illustration Awards Exhibition (Somerset House), London, UK
2015 – Individual exhibition of posters, editorial illustration and portraits (White Factory), Lodz, Poland
2015 – Bad Dads VI – Wes Anderson tribute art show (Joseph Gross Gallery), New York, USA
2015 – La couleur de l’etrangete – tribute to the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro (Spoke Art Gallery), San Francisco, USA
2014 – Kubrick – an art show tribute (Spoke Art Gallery), San Francisco, USA
2014 – Bad Dads V – Wes Anderson tribute art show (Spoke Art Gallery), San Francisco, USA
2014 – In Dreams – an art show tribute to the films of David Lynch (Spoke Art Gallery), San Francisco, USA
2012 – Ilustracja PL – Polish Illustration Exhibition (Soho Factory), Warsaw, Poland
2010 – Editorial – Individual Illustration Exhibition (Owoce i Warzywa), Lodz, Poland
2010 – Stripdagen – De Kampensche School (Nieuwe Vide) , Haarlem, Holland
2008 – Individual Illustration and Print Exhibition at The International Comic Book Festival, Lodz, Poland
2008 – Good 50×70, Milan, Italy
2007 – Ten Images For Ithaca, Ithaca, Greece
2006 – Individual Comic Book and Print Exhibition (Brama Jazz Cafe), Szczecin, Poland
2006 – European Art Exchange (Natolin European Centre), Warsaw, Poland
2005 – Projekt 2005 (Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts) – Lodz, Poland

BOOKS:

“Total Geek Art”, Huginn & Muninn, 2019
“3×3 Illustration Annual No. 16”, Artisanal Media , 2019
“Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art”, Flesk Publications, 2019
“3×3 Illustration Annual No. 15”, Artisanal Media , 2018
“Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art”, Flesk Publications, 2018
“Illustration – A Theoretical & Contextual Perspective”, Bloomsbury, 2017
“3×3 Illustration Annual No. 14”, Artisanal Media , 2017
“The Best Polish Illustrators 3 – Posters”, Fundacja Slow, 2017
“The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson”, Abrams, 2016
“Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art”, Flesk Publications, 2016
“The Best Polish Illustrators 3 – Press”, Fundacja Slow, 20176
“American Illustration 34 Annual”, Amilus, 2016
“Illustrators 57 Annual”, Society of Illustrators New York, 2015
“200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2011/2012″ Lürzer’s Archive, 2012
“Illustration Now! Vol.4”, Taschen, 2011

SELECTED CLIENTS:

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Apple
Åpent Rom
Architektura
Ars Cameralis
Budveiser
Chicago Magazine
Canal +
Crodino
Disney
DFL Magazin
Duzy Format
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
The Economist
Gazeta Wyborcza
Hollywood Reporter
ING
Kongsberg
Legendary Pictures
Lucasfilm
Machina
Monocle Magazine
National Centre for Culture
Netflix
Netjets Magazine
Newsweek
The New Republic
The New Yorker
Norsk Politi
Orange Slovensko
Pan Tu Nie Stal
Perspective Magazine
Polish Institute Tel Aviv
Politico
Popshot Magazine
Przekroj
Reporters Without Borders
The Smithsonian
Studio Filmowe Kadr
Slate Magazine
Twoj Styl
Washington Post
Wysokie Obcasy

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