Leon Tarasewicz was born in 1957 in Stacja WaliBy, Poland. He has had eight solo exhibitions with Galerie Nordenhake (both in Berlin and Stockholm), and most recently has had solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck (2006), Polnisches Institut, Berlin (2005), and La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes (2003). Tarasewicz also represented Poland in the nation’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2001). His work is in the permanent collections of every major Polish collection, as well as the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the George Costakis Collection, Athens, and the Arthur Sackler Collection, New York, to name a few. He currently lives and works in WaliBy, and is the head of the Painting department at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw.