Marek Cecula

Poland, b. 1944

Place of BirthKielce, Poland

BiographyCeramic artist, designer, and educator Marek Cecula was born in 1944 in Kielce, Poland, where he maintains an active studio in addition to his design office in New York City. In 1985, he established the Ceramic Department at the Parsons School of Design, New York and headed the program until 2004, when he became the curator-in-charge for the Third Biennial for Israeli Ceramics. Cecula currently coordinates design reviews at the Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem, and he curated the 2008 Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics at the Gardnier Museum, Toronto.

Marek Cecula has participated in exhibitions at venues worldwide, including the Garth Clark Gallery, New York, (2007); Drud and Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2006); the Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin (2003); and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (1999). His work can be found in many collections, including the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway.