Patryk Tomaszewski
Adjunct Lecturer of Art
Music and Art
EMAIL: ptomaszewski@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Patryk Tomaszewski is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Music and Art BMCC, where he teaches ART106 Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art. Mr. Tomaszewski has been teaching here since Fall 2016.
Mr. Tomaszewski is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation examines Socialist Realist art in the former Soviet satellite states, specifically in Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia under the Stalinist regime. By focusing on state-sponsored exhibitions of painting and sculpture, it analyzes the ways in which the cultural model of Socialist Realism—and the idealized version of reality it hoped to transmit—was received, institutionalized, and circulated among the post-war societies in East Central Europe.
Patryk Tomaszewski has previously completed internship programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His writing on Eastern European art and Russian avant-garde art has been published in ArtMargins Online and “post. Notes on Modern and Contemporary Around the Globe,” an online scholarly platform on global art maintained and edited by The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Expertise
Modern art in Eastern and Central Europe; the Russian avant-garde; Socialist Realism in the USSR and Eastern Europe; history of photography; art exhibitions under totalitarian regimes; 20th-century art and politics
Degrees
- M. Phil. in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- M.A. in History of Art and Archaeology, The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
- B.A. with Honors in Art History and German, Fordham University
Courses Taught
- This introduction to Modern and Contemporary art history includes the study of painting, sculpture, architecture and other media by surveying the development and evolution of artistic styles using a global approach. Emphasis will be placed on groundbreaking artistic movements in context to their historical framework. Students will learn the importance of innovative practices, techniques and new avenues of exploration, by understanding the socio-political and cultural events that influenced artists to create groundbreaking works, which have led the way to Contemporary Art.
Research and Projects
Current research projects focuses on Socialist Realism in former Soviet satellite states.
Publications
- “Female Artists and the Surrealist Body in East Central Europe after 1945” in The Female Gaze: Women Surrealists in the Americas and Europe (New York: Heather James Fine Art, 2019).
- “The Many Lives of El Lissitzky’s Proun 19D (1920 or 1921)” in post. Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art Around the Globe (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019), online.
- “Wojciech Fangor’s Movement in the Early 1960s” in Wojciech Fangor: The Early 1960s exh. cat. (New York: Heather James Fine Art, 2018).
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
- Long Travel Grant, 2018
- Mellon Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2017-2019
