Biography

Born 19 July 1922 in Poland.
Holocaust survivor.
Migrated to Australia in 1950.
Studied oil painting under Donald Campbell, 1960-1963.
Subsequently, mainly self-taught.
Expressionist painter.
Graphic miniaturist from the family of artistic tradition.
Exhibited since 1960 in both solo and group exhibitions.
Many publications report his work.
A number of books written to describe his life and work.
TV and radio programs devoted to his art.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 1979 Felix Tuszynski, Malvern Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1980 Felix Tuszynski & Bill Coleman, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1987 Felix Tuszynski, Retrospective Exhibition, Malvern Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1988 Felix Tuszynski, Retrospective Bi-Centenary Exhibition, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1990 Caulfield Arts Centre, City of Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
  • 1992 Fantasy Drawings, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1993 The Sun and the Shadows of Life, Felix & David Tuszynski, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1994 Paintings and Drawings Exhibition, National Museum Mazovia, Poland
  • 1994 Szalom Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
  • 1995 Paintings and Drawings, Heidelberg Theatre, Rosanna, Victoria, Australia
  • 1995 Paintings and Drawings, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
  • 1995 Paintings and Drawings, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia, Touring Exhibition
  • 1996 Paintings and Drawings, Mildura Art Centre, Victoria, Australia, Touring Exhibition
  • 1996 Paintings and Drawings, Dubbo Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia, Touring Exhibition
  • 1996 Felix Tuszynski & Danuta Michaiska, Gallery of Slavic Art, Northcote, Victoria, Australia, Australia
  • 1996 INTERNET ‘Felix’s Room’, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1997 Paintings and Drawings, Tweed River Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia, Touring Exhibition
  • 1997 Paintings and Drawings, Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia, Touring Exhibition
  • 1997 The Great Synagogue Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Touring Exhibition
  • 1997 Bega Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia, Touring Exhibition
  • 1997 The Jewish Museum of Australia
  • 1998 Devonport Gallery and Art Centre, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia
  • 1999 Delshan Art Gallery, Armadale, Victoria, Australia
  • 2000 Drawings Exhibition, Musee De La Creation Franche Beige, France
  • 2001 Drawings Exhibition, Musee Hall Saint Pierre, Paris, France
  • 2001 Paintings and Drawings Exhibition, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2002 Art of Felix Tuszynski, Drawing Exhibition, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2002 Drawings and Paintings Exhibition, Historical Museum of Cracow, Poland (June-July)
  • 2003 Paintings and Drawings Exhibition, Maruska Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2003 Paintings and Drawings Exhibition, Museum Terezin, Czech Republic
  • 2004 Paintings and Drawings Exhibition, Delsham Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2004 Paintings and Drawings Exhibition “Dancing Between Dream and Reality”, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2005 Felix Tuszynski / Danuta Michalska Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Delsham Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

Over 200 Group Exhibitions in Australia and overseas including France, Poland, Netherlands and United States of America.

  • 1960-1987 Malvern Arts Society, Melbourne, Australia (Annual)
  • 1970-2002 Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia (Annual)
  • 1985-1995 Contemporary Artists Society, Melbourne, Australia (Annual)
  • 1965 Atheneum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1965 Tasmania Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1967 Royal Arcade, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1967 Toorak Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1970 Cheltham Art Group, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1970 Cosmopolitan Art Group, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1971-1972 Herald Outdoor Art Show, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1978 Five Plus Group, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1979 AMP Building Group Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1980 Five Plus Group, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1982 Five Plus Group, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1983 Caulfield Art Centre Art Awards, Caulfield, Victoria
  • 1983 Burke Hall Kew Art Exhibition, Kew, Victoria, Australia
  • 1984 Five Plus Group, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1984 Burke Hall Kew Art Exhibition, Kew, Victoria, Australia
  • 1984 The King David School, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1985 Burke Hall Kew Art Exhibition, Kew, Victoria, Australia
  • 1985 Camberwell Art Competition, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
  • 1986 Burke Hall Kew Art Exhibition, Kew, Victoria, Australia
  • 1986 Camberwell Art Competition, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
  • 1986 Bazalel Fellowship of Arts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1987 Burke Hall Kew Art Exhibition, Kew, Victoria, Australia
  • 1987 Camberwell Art Competition, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
  • 1987 Caulfield Art Centre Prize Awards, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
  • 1987-1978 Uffizi Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1989 North Eastern Jewish Memorial Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1989 Raja Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1989 Sky Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1990 WTU Credit Union, Caulfield Art Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1990 Alice in Wonderland 125, City Square, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1990 Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1991 Old Courts House Gallery, Seymour, Victoria, Australia
  • 1991 A Special Exhibition Fellows, Signatory Members, Vas, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1992 Coolart Gallery, Victoria, Australia
  • 1992 World of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1992 Andre lvanyi Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1993 Art et Memoire L’Afma, Paris, France
  • 1993 The 11th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Australia
  • 1994 Caulfield Artists Award, Caulfield, Victoria
  • 1994 National Gallery, Plock, Poland
  • 1995 Spring Festival of Drawings, Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, Victoria, Australia
  • 1995 Delsham Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1996 Polish Art Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1996 Art and Rememberance, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1996 “Heart & Fire – Pol-Art” (till 1997), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 City of Glen Eira Local Art Award, Glen Eira, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 Embelished Eggs Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Christies Auction, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 “Art in Time”, Christies Auction, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 The 13 Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 Ivanyi Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 Greenaway Gallery (till 1998), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 Arnheim Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1998 Australian in New York, International Art Exhibition Festival of Polish Visual Art, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1999 “Roses and Red Earth”, Touring Exhibition (till 2002) – Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
  • 1999 Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • 1999 Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  • 1999 Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • 1999 Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
  • 1999 Parramatta Heritage Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1999 Griffith Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1999 Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1999 Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1999 Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 2000 Gallerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2001 “Fantastic Art”, Curated by Damian Michaels, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
  • 2001 “Noir Sur Blanc” (till 2002), Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris, France.
  • 2002 Highlight Art Collection, Glen Eira City Gallery, Glen Eira, Victoria, Australia
  • 2003 Spotlight Art Collection, Glen Eira City Gallery, Glen Eira, Victoria, Australia
  • 2003 Jewish Museum of Australia Art Show, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 2003 Arnheim Artist’s Proof Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Permanent Collections

  • Holocaust War Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Musee De La Creation Begles, France
  • Polish National Museum, Mazovia, Poland
  • Shalom Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
  • Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
  • Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
  • Art Museum, Lodz, Poland
  • Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
  • City of Glen Eira Permanent Art Collection, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
  • Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
  • Dubbo Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
  • Devonport Gallery and Art Centre, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
  • Gallery of Mikolaj Kopernik University, Torun, Poland
  • Private Collections in Australia, USA, Argentina, Poland, France, Israel and Germany

Internet Collections

  • 1996-2002 Felix’s Room, Virtual Gallery, The University of Melbourne
  • 1998-2002 Prominent Polish Australians: Felix Tuszynski, Polonica
    www.polonica.org.au/felix/
  • 1999-2000 Felix Tuszynski
    www.ug.net.au/~zzplistk/zaprog/sztuka/index.htm
  • 2002-2008 Felix Tuszynski, Pineberry Gallery
    gallery.pineberry.com.au
  • 2002-2008 Felix Tuszynski, Aristoberry Gallery
    www.aristoberry.com

Awards and Honours

  • 1967 Artist Award, Chadstone Festival of Art, Australia
  • 1990 Artist Award, Contemporary Artists Society, Australia
  • 1994 Artist Award, Victorian Artists Society, Australia
  • 1994 Medal, City of Plock, Poland
  • 1994 Medal, For contribution to the Arts, City of Plock, Poland
  • 1994 Honorary Diploma, For contribution to the Arts, City of Plock, Poland
  • 1995 Artist Award, Contemporary Artists Society, Australia
  • 1996 Honorary Award, For contribution to the Arts, Signatory Member, Victorian Artists Society, Australia
  • 1996 Honorary Advisor, International Division of American Biographical Institute

Publications about Felix

  • International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England
  • Men of Achievement, Seventeenth Edition, England
  • The International Dictionary of Distinguished Leadership, Sixth Edition, Cambridge, England
  • Who’s Who, Encyclopedia Polonia, Poland
  • The International Who’s Who, Eighth Edition, Cambridge, England
  • The International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement, The American Biographical Institute
  • Asia/Pacific Who’s Who, Volume I
  • The Australian and New Zealand Artists and Galleries
  • Musee De La Creation Franche Begues, France
  • A Pallette of Artists, Ken Bedman
  • Polish Art and Antiques, Tadeusz Zaremba, Poland
  • Part II, Poland, ‘Felix Tuszynski Artist Similar’ Zbigniew Chlewinski, Edmund Monsiel
  • Felix Tuszynski’s Exhibition Catalogue, Dr. Agnieszka Morawinska, Plock, Poland
  • And still their faces I see, Piotr Listkiewicz, Internet
  • The Virtual World of Felix Tuszynski, Jacob Cybulski., Internet
  • A Window into the Soul, Piotr Listkiewicz, Interview 1984
  • 1987 Catalogue, Dorothy Baker
  • 1987 Catalogue, Devi Tuszynski, France
  • 1990 Max Germaine Encyclopedia
  • 1990 Alice in Wonderland, exhibition catalogue
  • 1991 Art Plock, K. Askanas, Poland
  • 1992 A Buyers Guide To Australian Art, Graham Ryles
  • 1992 Exhibition of Drawings by Felix Tuszynski, Catalogue, Alan Sumner M.B.E.
  • 1992 Catalogue, Dr. Alexandra Rodda Ph.D.
  • 1992 Catalogue, Anna King Murdoch
  • 1993 Felix Tuszynski obliges us to share a strange reality, Catalogue, Henry Pessar, France
  • 1993 Catalogue, Devi Tuszynski, France
  • 1994 Crying in my Dreams, Exhibition Catalogue, Plock, Poland
  • 1994 Exhibition Catalogue, Director Museum, Tadeusz Zaremba M.A., Plock, Poland
  • 1994 The Art of Felix Tuszynski, Catalogue A.V. Harding
  • 1994 Triumphal return to horror-scare, Sonia Harford, The Age, December
  • 1995 Melbourne Chronicle
  • 1995 Art Exhibition Catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
  • 1995 CAS Newsletter, Jean Goldberg
  • 1996 Felix Tuszynski and Post Modernity, Catalogue, Cohn Shingleton
  • 1996 Reflection on Paintings and Drawings of Felix Tuszynski, Catalogue, Ian Dolan Hamilton,
  • 1996 Catalogue, Jean Goldberg
  • 1997 Art Streem Magazine, January
  • 1997 Art in Time, Christies Auction Catalogue
  • 1997 Embelished Eggs, Christies Auction Catalogue
  • 1997 Raw Vision, No.21, December
  • 1997 Catalogue, Dr. Helen Light
  • 1998 Antiques and Art in Victoria, Dr. Alexandra Rodda
  • 1998 Drawing Ink Journal of Visionary Art, Damian Michaels
  • 1998 An interview with Felix Tuszynski, Dr. Magdalena Tyszkiewicz, Art Magazine, Poland
  • 1998 A window into the soul, Piotr Listkiewicz, Art Visionary, Issue One, 1998/99, p. 10-1 3.
  • 1999 Antiques and Art in Victoria, Delshan Art Gallery
  • 1999 Poems about Felix’s Drawings and Paintings, Dr. Magdalena Tyszkiewicz, Art Magazine, Poland
  • 1999 Gosciniec Magazyn Artystyczno-Literacki no. 2/4 Issue 3, Plock, Poland
  • 2000 Who’s Who Polonia (Poles Abroad), A Biographical Dictionary
  • 2000 Roses and Red Earth – Polish Folk in Australia, exhibition catalogue
  • 2000 An interview with Felix Tuszynski, M. Hughes, Bast Music Magazine, Issue 12, San Francisco, USA.
  • 2000 Felix Tuszynski: An Antipodean Surrealist, Ronald Greenaway,
  • 2000 The Art of Felix Tuszynski, Book, Presented by Tadeusz Zaremba, The Masovian Museum of Poland
  • 2001 Musee Hall St. Pierre, Paris
  • 2001 International Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalogue
  • 2001 Fantastic Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales
  • 2001 The Art of Felix Tuszynski, book review by David Langsman
  • 2001 Margo Stanislawska-Birnberg, Polish Weekly, Melbourne
  • 2001 Folk Art, Book, Dr Maria Wronska, Melbourne
  • 2001 Australian Jewish News, November 14 and 15
  • 2001 Noir Sur Blanc, Mondes lnterieures. Exhibition Catalogue Paris, France.
  • 2001 The 101 Quarterly, 101 Collins Street Magazine Summer Edition
  • 2001 The Age, December
  • 2001 The Art of Felix Tuszynski, review by Lesley Harding
  • 2001 They Lived Among Us, Book, Poland
  • 2002 The Art of Felix Tuszynski, Art Visionary, book review by Damien Michaels
  • 2002 Art Exercises, Holocaust Horrors, Leader
  • 2002 Catalogue, Historic Museum Krakow, Poland
  • 2002 Book of Art from Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Torun, Poland
  • 2002 Highlights Art Collection, City of Glen Eira
  • 2002 Spotlight Art Collection, Glen Eira Council Art Collection
  • 2003 Catalogue of Exhibition, Gallery of Mikolaj Kopernik University in Torun, Poland
  • 2003 Catalogue of Exhibition “Return of the White Bull”, Geelong Gallery
  • 2004 Catalogue of Exhibition and Auction “Precious Platters”, Sothebys Gallery in Melbourne, Australi
  • 2005 Colours of Black, book review by David Langsam, Jewish News

Television and Documentary

  • 1994 Oto Polska, Documentary Television Film, Exhibition in Warsaw
  • 2000 The Metamorphosis of Felix Tuszynski, Documentary Film
  • 2002 The Art of Felix Tuszynski, Documentary Film, A Zev Production

(Information provided by the Artist)

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