Allen Mack - artist and painter
Contemporary Art Gallery - Skowronski Art - Works by artist and painter Allen Mack
Lubosław Pirjankow (Allen Mack, born in 2001) is developing his painting skills at both the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the University of Arts in Poznań. He mainly focuses on painting, but also works with sculpture and blacksmithing. He is a co-founder of the MZS Młodzi Zdolni Seksowni (Young, Talented and Sexy) group and the Piec Gallery in Poznań. Since 2015, he has been co-organising and actively participating in the mural festival at Staro Zhelezare StreetArt Village in Bulgaria.
He made his debut in 2019 with a solo exhibition entitled EIGHTEEN at the Piec Gallery in Poznań. His works have been presented at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France and Slovakia. He has participated in exhibitions such as House of Demons at La Recyclerie in Paris (2022), Village of Personalities at Staro Zhelezare Street Art Village in Bulgaria (2021), Sapere Aude – Dare To Know at the Central Slovakia Gallery in Banská Bystrica (2024) and Student Painting Triennial at BWA Rzeszów (2024).
As part of the MZS collective, he participated in the projects Pathology of Normality at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2021) and Another Day in Paradise at Galeria Piec in Poznań (2023).
Allen Mack is the winner of numerous awards and distinctions, including the Special Award at the Global Talent Art Prize in London (2022) and Second Prize in the GENERALI Warsaw Art Award competition (2021). In 2024, Allen Mack was twice awarded at the 13th edition of the nationwide painting competition New Image / New Perspective in Poznań, receiving the aTAK Gallery Award and the Podobrazii Rogal Award.
