Projects

Jan Baracz was born in Warsaw, Poland and moved to New York city in 1981. His projects include Sand Box 1.0 at the Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland, Life is Short exhibited at Art Basel, Switzerland in 2002 and The Ghost at artMbassy Gallery, in Berlin, Germany in 2006. Baracz’s sequential photographic projection Eyebeads by Words Held Fast premiered in New York in 2006. In 2008, he produced the cinematic installation Reality Cinema/LIVE VIDEO at Art in General in New York, and in 2012 he completed a first installment of the media/sculptural project How to Float Above the Psychic Stampede and Other Traditional Remedies at the Stefan Stoyanov Gallery on New York’s Lower East Side. Baracz’s installation On the Nature of Dust Deposits, Minerva Owl Flight Patterns and Other Commonly Overlooked Events had been on view at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York between 2017 and 2019. In 2022 Konnotation Press published his photography book, Eyebeads by Words Held Fast. His recent solo exhibitition  Mutiny’s Darling (2023) at Peninsula Gallery in New York was reviewed by Andrew Woolbright for the Brooklyn Rail. He has received grants and awards from Art Matters, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Kosciuszko Foundation among others. Baracz’s photography has appeared in Paris Review, American Letters & Commentary, and numerous other periodicals.