Michal [SEPE] WRĘGA (b. 1982), Mamona Liza, 2018

acrylic, spray, oil, panel; 61 x 46 cm;
Signed p. d.: S E P E.

Associated with the broadly defined urban art trend since 1996. Graduate of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at the Warsaw Agricultural University (diploma in 2006) and the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (diploma in 2009). He lives and works in Warsaw as an illustrator and painter-muralist.
He has painted in, among other places: Albania, England, Armenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Spain, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Luxemburg, Mongolia, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA and Poland.
His compositions have been included in the following publications: Muralismo Morte (GER), Slanted (GER), Graffiti Art (FR), Graffiti Allstars (FR), Ataq Bookzine (FR), Illegal Squad (MEX), Brain Damage (PL), Hiro (PL), Street Mag (PL), Slow (PL), Arteon (PL), Art&Business (PL), Vice (PL), Polish Street Art (PL), Graffiti Goes East (PL), Catapult Mag (US), Street Art Cologne (GER), Magasinet Kunst (DK), Artist And Art (PL), Whino Mag (US), Magic Paintbrush (CHN), "The Contemporary Urban Art Guide 2015" (FR), The Art Of The Mural (US), Stories For Ways And Means (US), Przekrój - Winter 2017 (PL); Street Art Contexte(s) (FR), The Making Of Urban Nation (GER); Urban Nation - Unique, United, Unstoppable (GER), Next Level (AUS).
Individual exhibitions: 2018 - "Dying Surfer Meets His Maker," Rhodes Contemporary Art, London (UK); 2017 - "Sleeping Through The War". , Varsi Gallery, Rome (IT); 2016 - "Selfie in the Circus", SOON Gallery, Zurich (CH); 2015 - "The Golden Age Of Grotesque", Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London (UK); 2010 - "Pork knuckle,tripe", Baraka gallery, Cracow (PL); 2009 - "Sober is not art", Viuro gallery, Warsaw (PL).