Dalibor Polivka
Bio
Education
1992 - 1994
Post graduate, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK
1985 - 1989
Master, at University of Commenius, Bratislava, SK
Awards
2013
Benjamin Franklin Print Award, MSC, Newport Beach
2000
ADDY Awards, Bristol, VA
Exhibitions & Projects
UFORA'S IMAGINARY MUSEUM , OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
Art Cocktail, Private showing, Santa Ana, CA (with Chau Thuy)
Instagram, Holiday Pop-Up Show, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
Jazz -The House That America Built, University of California, Irvine, CA (Art direction, with Sheron Wray)
The Great Spirograph Challenge, The College at Brockport Fine Arts Brockport, NY
Duets, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, (with Rob Mintz)
L’Atelier Populaire et “l’Affaire Bourriaud”, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
Tabula Rasa, Et Sic Et Infinitum, Directions, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
All Media, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (jurror Karen Moss)
Cookies for Saint Nicolas, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (catalogue)
The Inexpressible, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (catalogue)
After Hours, Galeria-Z, Bratislava, Slovakia
After Hours, Individual Stories, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
The Art of Imaging, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Avantgarden Gallery, Santora Arts Complex, Santa Ana, CA
12th Annual Orange Open, Orange Art Association, Orange, CA;
The Cusp, Crussell Fine Arts, Orange, CA
¡Presente! Homenaje a la Mujer, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Eclat, Crussell Fine Arts, Orange, CA
Jacque! Jacqueline!, Zero Point Space, Los Angeles, CA
Pure, Outside of gallery circle, Costa Mesa, CA
Solo Exhibition, Flowers of the Sea, Digital Photoraphy, Buena Park City Hall, Buena Park, CA
Naughty! Naughty! Wabi-Sabi!, Zero Point Space, Los Angeles, CA
Unus Deus Plures Vinco, Art Slave Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Universal Love, DiviShow Studio and Gallery, Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico
Virginia Highlands Festival Art Show, Abingdon, VA
Art show, William King Art Center, Abingdon, VA;
Contemporary Slovak Art, Laurence Raymond Gallery/Gallery Zebu, Atlanta, GA
Delicious Mosquitos, Knoxville Museu, Art design project for Knoxville Museum of Art ( with D.Willson)
East Tennessee Art Currents II. Exhibition, Knoxville Museum of Art, TN (curated by B.H. Bishop)
33rd Annual National Drawing Show, Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, Del Mar College, TX
(jurried by Susan Shatter)
Contemporary Slovak Art, Cleveland State University, University of GA, Carrolton, GA
7+2, Galleria Z, Bratislava, Slovakia
Three-Person Exhibition ,Three Artist -Three Continents, Ewing Gallery, UT, Knoxville, TN
(with Leora Farber and Yongchul Kim)
The State of Things, A1LabArts Space, Knoxville, TN
Absurd Fest, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Drawings, Frank H. McClung Museum, International House, Knoxville,TN (with Carlos Ancalmo)
Mail Art, Salon 97, Slovak Union of Fine Art, Bratislava, Slovakia
Call Me, Salon 96, Slovak Union of Fine Art, Bratislava, Slovakia
Is Anybody There?, Video Installation, Tempus Exhibition, Dankerque, France
Grandeur and Light, Gallery Puda, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Solo Exhibition, Emanuel Kant, Installation, Gallery Microsoft, Bratislava, Slovakia
Solo Exhibition, Paintings, Theater West, Bratislava, Slovakia
Solo Exhibition, Angels With Broken Legs, Slovak - American Society, Bratislava, Slovakia
Solo Exhibition and performance Unwrap the art, Puppet Theater, B. Bystrica, Slovakia, (curated by Marian Paukov)
Solo Exhibition, In the Beginning, Cik-Cak Center, Bratislava, Slovakia
The Passage, Musée Félicien Rops, Namure, Belgium
Les Lumières, INJEP, Land Art-Installation, Drawings, Marly le Roi, France
Solo Exhibition, The Light, Museum of Puppet Theater, B. Bystrica, Slovakia
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Publications
2018
Dalibor Polivka: Sketches and Installations, Monograph in two parts, author Rob Mintz, printed by Createspace
2013
2012
The Unreality of UFORA, Notes on Contemporary Art with co-author Rob Mintz, printed by Createspace
Bdelí spáci, Poetry book, printed by Createspace, 2014
Susan W. Knowles,
ART Currents II, Art Papers, Nashville
“Dalibor Polivka, a Slovakian now residing in US, confronted the word as art form. ‘Art is a monster eating our words,’ says Polivka, ‘we fall into misconceptions and we let the art destroy reality, believing that we can find a safer place to hide ourselves.’ Polivka’s graphite drawings incorporate unreadable mirror image text (possibly antique cyrilllic lettering?) on distressed sheet of paper. While undecipherable connotations and associations seemed to pulse from Polivka’s antiquarian, almost newspaper-like pieces, the paintings, photographs, and pedestal mounted sculptures of other artist in the show seemed content to be explored on the viewer’s terms...”
Doug Mason,
The Arts, Showtime, Newspaper, Atlanta
“Polivka’s contribution, Upside Down challenges the viewer to abandon their preconceptions and look at art in new ways. He says that most people’s first aesthetic experience comes as children, when they bend over and look at the world upside-down. Polivka wants viewers to find that different point of view when looking at his drawings, so he has provided foot print patterns that suggest various viewing angles. At the end of the exhibit there is a chair so viewers can sit and think about quote above the chair...”
Heather Joyner,
The view from next door Artbeat, Knoxville New Sentinel
“Dali Polivka’s series of pencil drawings, seen previously inEwing gallery, is otherwise otherworldly with its secret symbols. Calligraphic lines smack of text — Arabic or ancient Phoenician, maybe — but the language of line itself predominates...”
Three Artists, Three Continents
“On the gallery’s west wall is Untitled 1-45, a massive mixed media construction by Dali Polivka. One of its 39 wood squares — with painting, drawing, objects, photographs, received mail, collages, and diskettes — contains a snapshot of the artist as a child running determinedly towards us. Amusing and unexpected, it reflects Polivka’s vulnerability and humility as creator. Polivka eloquently remarks in his artist’s statement that his goal is to find the broken bridge between ground and heaven.” Solemn and captivating as that is, his sense of fun is what’s truly seductive. Eleven stunningly graphic pencil drawings with recurring umbrella shapes are playful, and other displayed works are extremly humorous — for instance, a sheet of Plexiglas screwed to the wall and entitled The Wall of the Ewing Gallery, and Bamboo Stick — which is just that.) Beyond tongue-in-cheek, Polivka is mysterious, cerebral, and every bit as provocative as his fellow exhibitors...although by entirely different means.