He presented his pictures at about 50 one-artist exhibitions.

Here we have some more important from among them:
1977 ZPAP/PSP Gallery, Katowice
1981 BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
1984 O. N. Gallery, Poznań
1987 BWA Contemporary Art Galleries in Cracow, Katowice and Poznań
1988 The Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
The 37 Million Gallery, Polish Television, Warsaw
1989 The Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Cracow
1990 Dijkstra Gallery, Amsterdam
1991 Espace - Temps Gallery, Paris
1992 F- 15 Gallery, Moss, Norway - the retrospection
1993 BWA Gallery, Częstochowa
BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra
"Mada" Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
1994 Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany
Artemis Gallery, Cracow
1995 Sielec Quarter Prompts, pictures from the years 1985-1995, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
1996 Sielec Quarter Prompts, National Gallery of Art, Łódź
Sielec Quarter Prompts, Polish Institute, Vienna, Austria
Sielec Quarter Prompts, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
Sielec Quarter Prompts, District Museum, Toruń
Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw
1997 Miskolci Galeria, Miskolc, Hungary
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Saint Etienne, France
1998 The Gleam, Studio Art Centre, Warsaw
Lovers from the Kaliska Street, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
1999 Radio Katowice Gallery, Katowice
Boys from Będzin, The Czas/Time Gallery, Będzin
Present Gallery, Municipal Cultural Centre, Jaworzno
2000 The Gleam, Polish Institute, Rome, Italy
2001 Shut the Door, Please, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
Jacek Rykała, Sunday Afternoons Tensed with the Silence of Empty Streets and Squares..., Municipal Museum in Sosnowiec
2002 Jacek Rykała, Sunday Afternoons Tensed with the Silence of Empty Streets and Squares..., National Museum, Cracow
2003 Jacek Rykała, Bilder, Objekte, Collagen, Stadtsmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
2004 Jacek Rykała, Arrested Time, painting, prints, TW007 Art Gallery New York USA
Jacek Rykała, the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre, the Main Foyer
The Mist - Jewish Inspirations, KNST Marchołt Gallery, Katowice
2005 Jacek Rykała, Polish Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
Unimportant Things, Insignificant Events, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
2006 Jacek Rykała, Cose poco importanti, arrenimente insignificanti, Galleria d'arte
Polacca, Bologna, Italy

THEATRE:

4 June 2005
Premiere of Jacek Rykała's author's performance The House to Be Knocked Down
directed by the author, at the Paint Room, the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice

October 2005
Presentation of the performance The House to Be Knocked Down at the Polish Premiere Festival in Bydgoszcz

December 2005
Presentation of the performance The House to Be Knocked Down at the Main Building of the National Museum in Cracow. The performance was accompanied by the presentation of Jacek Rykała's paintings.

7 February 2007
Premiere of Jacek Rykała's play The Dairy, directed by the author, at the Paint Room, the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice

In the years 1976-2007 the artist took place in over 250 group exhibitions all around the world including:

- 1st and 4th International Drawing Triennial, Wrocław 1978, 1988
- Fritiska Roster Fran Polen, Konstmuseet Ystad, Sweden 1981
- 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Polish Contemporary Painting Festival, Szczecin 1978, 1980, 1986, and 1988
- Poland - Landscape, People, Ideas, Sopot 1981
- Drawing and Commentary, District Museum, Radom 1980
- Drawing and Description, District Museum, Radom 1981
- 2-eme Convergence Jeune Expression, Grand Palais, Paris 1983
- Polonya cagas resim seqesi, Ankara, Istanbul 1984
- Internationale Kunstbiennale, Seetal, Switzerland 1985
- The Way and the Truth 1st Young Art Biennial, St. Cross Church, Wrocław 1989
- 8 Miedunárodne Bienále Malby, Kosice, Czechoslovakia 1986
- 1st Small Painting Forms Biennial, Toruń 1988
- Arsenal '88, Young Artists National Exhibition, Warsaw 1988
- Art Festival, Moscow 1988
- Den abne d?or, Charlottenberg, Copenhagen 1989
- Drawing, Zamek Ujazdowski Art Centre, Warsaw 1989
- Red and White, Warsaw, Amsterdam 1989
- Enclave - Interart International Art Fair, Poznań 1990
- Ten Years Later, District Museum, Radom 1992
- Europalia, Brussels 2001
- Directions in Art, TWOO7 Art Gallery, New York, 2004
- Polish Print Triennial, Katowice 2004, Miskolc 2005, Hungary
- International Print Triennial, Cracow 2004, Oldenburg 2005
- Dąbrówki 9 - On painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Silesian Museum, Katowice 2006
- Painting Re(co)naissance, Contemporary Art Biennial, High Silesian Cultural Centre, Katowice

In the years 1989-1996 his works were presented at Art Fairs including:

Art Cologne 1989-96
Art Frankfurt 1990-96
Art Chicago 1991, 1994
Art Los Angeles 1991
Art Tokyo 1992
Art Hamburg 90
Art Nice 90
Art London 2005
Arte Fierra 2007, Bologna, Italy

The artist's works belong to the following collections:

National Museum, Cracow, Warsaw, Poznań, and Szczecin
Museum of Modern Art in Łódź
Silesian Museum in Katowice
Museum of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow
District Museums in Radom and Bydgoszcz
Museum of the Lubuskie Region in Zielona Góra
Municipal Museums in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Jaworzno, and Chorzów
Studio Art Centre in Warsaw
Board Painting Gallery, the Zamek Górków Museum in Szamotuły
Volker Feierabendt Collection for Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany
as well as in private collections in a few dozen countries

There are eight televised films about the artist (Polish National Television Warsaw, Cracow, Katowice, and Canal +).

Jacek Rykała has been awarded with a few dozen of prizes and awards, including:

- First Prize at the Z. R. Pomorski National Painting Contest, Katowice 1980
- Prizes at the 10th and 15th Polish Painting Festival, Szczecin 1980 and 1988
- Award at the exhibition Poland: Landscape, People, Ideas, Sopot 1981
- Prizes at the J. Spychalski Painting Contest, Poznań 1980 and 1986
- Medals at the National Painting Exhibitions Bielska Jesień, Bielsko-Biała 1978 and 1980
- Honourable mention at the Internationale Kunstbiennale, Seetal, Switzerland, 1985
- Award of the 1st Young Art Biennial "The Way and the Truth", St. Cross Church, Wrocław 1989
- Honourable mention at the Arsenal '88, Warsaw 1988
- The City of Sosnowiec Award for artistic activity, Sosnowiec1992.

Jacek Rykała collaborates with the Zapiecek Gallery in Warsaw, the Czas/Time Gallery in Będzin, and the Artemis Gallery in Cracow.

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