Robert Truszkowski

Biography

Robert Truszkowski earned a BFA in Printmaking from Queen’s University in 2000 and a MFA in Print Media from Concordia University in 2004. He has exhibited and lectured across Canada and internationally, winning awards and recognition as an important artist working in contemporary Printmaking media. Before joining the faculty at the University of Regina, Robert printed editions for several well-known Canadian artists including Betty Goodwin and Ed Pien at Stinger Editions (Concordia University) in Montréal, and he taught printmaking, digital imaging and contemporary art theory at Queen’s, Concordia and the Haliburton School of the Arts. As a contemporary artist working in Print-based media, Robert’s practice straddles a treacherous conceptual and material divide. The history of printmaking is the history of humankind’s enlightenment; printed matter revolutionized the way in which knowledge and information could, and would, be spread. Printing gave birth to the Renaissance. Printing gave birth to democratization of the idea of ideas. Printing gave birth to communication.

Research Interest

(Conceptual) Popular culture; text, language, and communication; rap music; religion (Technical) Expanded colour and resolution possibilities in studio Printmaking (particularly in Ultra-violet cured (UV) silkscreen); digital print applications; lower and non-toxic approaches to studio printmaking