Jacek J. Kolasinski | Assistant Professor
New Media + Video/Digital
Jacek J. Kolasinski is a New-Media artist and Assistant Professor of Visual Arts in the Art and Art History Department at Florida International University. He came to the United States from Poland where he studied history and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in International Relations. Jacek Kolasinski received his MFA and BFA from Florida International University in Miami.

Through his creative work, Kolasinski has tested complex video installations, single and multiple channel projections, as a well as site-specific projects in the context of public architecture. His art work has reached large international audiences through presentations and exhibitions in over thirty venues including: the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico; 61 Festival de Cannes - Short Film Corner; Cinema Politic, Barcelona, Spain; and Digital Fringe, Melbourn, Australia, to name a few.

Kolasinski's work is rooted in an international dialogue between two worlds: the "Old World" of Europe in Krakow, and the "New World" of the United States in multicultural Miami. These convergent worlds create a running theme that surfaces in many of his works: the search for identity in the vortex of cultural displacement.

Kolasinski has been awarded a Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in the media and visual arts and the prestigious Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship.

Florida International University | Art + Art History | UP VH 216D | Miami, FL 33199 | kolasins@fiu.edu | 305.348.3362