Born in Tarnow, Poland

Studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków

Studied Architecture at the Polytechnic in Kraków
Lives and works in Kraków, Poland

Sleep, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland

Wilhelm Sasnal, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Columbus, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Wilhelm Sasnal: Paintings, West Bund Art & Design Fair, Qiao Zhi Bing Art Space, Shanghai, China
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland
Lava, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Artists’ Film Club: Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, (film screening of It Looks Pretty from a Distance)
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Father, Foksal Foundation Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

White Chapel Gallery, London, UK
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Wilhelm Sasnal. Lata Walki / Years of Struggle, Sara Hildén
Art Museum, Tampere, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
Presentation in the Collection Rooms: Wilhelm Sasnal, Works from the Collection Martin, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal. Lata Walki / Years of Struggle, CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Wilhelm Sasnal. Lata Walki / Years of Struggle, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

Wilhelm Sasnal. Lata Walki / Years of Struggle, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
SI Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Boredom, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Wzorzec kilograma, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Wilhelm Sasnal - Chinati Artist in Residence, The Locker Plant, Marfa, TX

The Band, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
ZAWA SROD, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal – Map Trap, Galerie Raster, Warsaw, Poland

T-ów, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Wilsa, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
3 o’clock road block, Sadie Coles, London, UK
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Wilhelm Sasnal – Monika Sasnowska, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy
MuHKA, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp

PHO, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Show on your hands – Look – Come closer, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw; Parel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cars and Men, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Everyday Life in Poland between 1999 and 2001, Galeria Raster, Warsaw, Poland

Board Game, Galeria Potocka, Cracow, Poland

The Hundred Pieces, Galeria Zderzak, Cracow, Poland
Painting, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
The Crowd, billboards of Galeria Otwarta

Private–Public, billboards of Galeria Otwarta
A Natural Holyday, billboards of Galeria Otwarta 

In Tune with the World, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France

From Pablo Picasso to Robert Rauschenberg, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
Beyeler Collection/Remix, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstwerk Leben, Zentrum für verfolgte Künste, Solingen, Germany
PAINTING, LeeAhn Gallery, Daegu, South Korea

Beyeler Collection/Remix, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI, Rome, Italy
40th Mostra, São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil
Medicine in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Happy Ending, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
La memoria finalmente. Arte in Polonia: 1989-2016, (Memory at last. Art in Poland: 1989-2016), Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Genarational: Polish Art in Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
Love Performance, Galeria Labirynt, Lubin, Poland
Activities with Family, Galeria Raster, Warsaw, Poland
The Regional Collection of Contemporary Art, Warsaw National Museum, Poland

Unrealism, presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, The Moore Building, Miami
Design District, Miami, FL
Seven Artists from the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Galler of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Back to the Abyss, Belfort Museum of Fine Arts, Belfort, France
COLLECTING LINES, Chapter II, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
Pequod, Esther Schipper & Johnen Galerie at 11 Columbia, Monaco
Dio Horia in Mykonos, Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Sommerkino, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
State of Life: Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Poland – Israel – Germany: the Auschwitz Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland
ART IN MUSIC | Works from the ACT Art Collection, The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Procedures for the Head. Polish Art Today, Dom Umenia, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
Die Beiläufigkeit der Dinge, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Verein von Kunstfreunden, Lübeck, Germany
How to (live with) things that don’t exist: an exhibition developed out of the 31st São Paulo Biennial, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal

A Place Where We Could Go, NoPlace, Oslo, Norway
Dark Chambers, On Melancholy and Depression, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Secret Passions: Private Flemish Collections, lille3000, Lille, France
The Hidden Picture: Collecting Art at Ing, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
How to (…) things that don’t exist, 31st Bienal de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil
Painter’s Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Love Story – Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace & 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Daring to Ask: Collisions with the Collection Marta, Martha Herford, Herford, Germany
Histories: Works From The Serralves Collection, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Die Beste Aller Welten, Staedtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
Ruptures & Convergences, KUAD GALLERY, Istanbul, Turkey
The Day Is Too Short (A Few Autobiographical Stories), Bwa Sokol Gallery Of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz, Poland
In the Near Future, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, curated by Neville Wakefield, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
The Day Is Too Short (A Few Autobiographical Stories), Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan, Poland

Presenting the Vincent, GEM Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands
A Boy Grows to Become a Knight: A Discourse on Masculinity in Polish Culture from the End of the 18th Century until Today, Krakow, Poland
British British Polish Polish: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long ‘90s and Today, CCA Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, MA
Extra Kino – Wilhelm Sasnal: Short Films, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Showing its colours: What makes art, Martha Herford, Herford, Germany
Today's Art Makes Tomorrow's Poland, Musuem of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
An Idea of Beauty, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy
In the Heart of the Country: The collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Puppet, a Pauper, a Pirate, a Poet, a Pawn and a King, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

A House of Leaves, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
SaltVanAbbe, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Salt, Istanbul, Turkey
Image Counter Image,  Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
American and European paintings from the collection of Marx, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecin, Poland
Struggles, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Verschiebungsersatz, Kimmerich, New York, NY, curated by David Rimanelli
Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre
Pomoidou, Paris, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
The Second Strike, Herziliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzilyya, Israel
Welraum: Die Kunst und ein Traum, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Freshly Unpacked - How Art Ages, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Painting Between The Lines, California College of the Arts Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Power of Fantasy, Palais des Beauz-Arts Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Tomorrow is the Question, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, The Power Plant, Ontario, Canada
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Villa Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland
 XVII. Rohkunstbau, Schloss Marquardt, Marquardt-Potsdam, Germany
fast forward 2. The Power of Motion – Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Conversation Pieces. A Chamber Play, Act III, Scene 3, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany

The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Wilhelm Sasnal. Werke aus der Sammlung Martin, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Hellwach gegenwärtig - Ausblicke auf die Sammlung Marta, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Monument to Transformation, City Gallery, Prag, Czech Republic
Invasion of Sound. Music and the Visual Arts, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
International Collection of Contemporary Art 5th Edition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Something Else!!!!, MAN, Nuoro, Italy
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Play, Part 1 – The Game and the Players. Strange and Close, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Family and Friends, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Life on Mars:  55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England
T2 Torino Triennale, Turin, Italy
Heartland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
I Am Never at Home, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
back to black - schwarz in der aktuellen malerei, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Du Dialogue Social, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Ad Absurdum, MARTa Herford, Germany
Glasgow International 2008, Glasgow, Scotland
Manual CC, uqbar, Berlin, Germany
The Painting of Modern Life, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy           

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Playback, Musée d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Gesellschaftsbilder. Zeitgenossische Malerei, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Who’s got the Big Picture? Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Frisch gestrichen, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
What is Painting?, MoMA, New York, NY
Untitled, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
The Present, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Last News, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
Painting Now!, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Old School, Hauser & Wirth, London, England
Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art, South London Gallery, London, UK
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Polish Painting of the 21st Century, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Grey Flags, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, NY
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre, Coidropo, Italy
Imagens em Pintura, Havekost, Kahrs, Plessen, Sasnal, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Sammlung Marx in Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
1,2,3… Avant-Gardes, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Melancholia, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
The Vincet 2006, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Essential Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Collection, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Imagination Becomes Reality, Pt. V: Fantasy and Fiction, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

What’s New Pussycat? Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
ATOMICA – making the invisible visible, Esso Gallery and Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Material Time/Work Time/Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
It takes some time to open an oyster, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic

Some Forgotten Place, Matrix, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Nowa Huta, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum für moderne Kunst, Karlsruhe
MUHKA de collectie, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Time and again, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil

4ever Young, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Creeping Revolution 2, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
Hidden In A Daylight, Hotel pod Jeleniem, Cieszyn, Poland

Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Pause, 4th Gwangju Bienniale, Gwangju, South Korea
Urgent Painting, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Raster – aktuelle Kunst aus Polen, Museum Viadrana – Junkerhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
A Need For Realism. Solitude In Ujazdowski, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Pod Brunatnym Jeleniem, Hotel, curated by Joanna Mytkowska, Andrzej Przywara, Adam  
Szymczyk, Cieszyn, Poland

Painters’ Competition, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
The Good, Galeria Raster, Warsaw, Poland
1st Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania
Bureaucracy, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
In Between, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 
Popelita/Pop-elite, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland 
Rybie of Fisheye, BWA Gallery, Slupsk, Poland

Scena 2000, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
100% Painting, BWA Gallery, Poznan, Poland
Visual Art – Simple Life, Edit-Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
Paint Me, BWA, Zielone Góra, Poland

What Yousee is what you get, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Seven Young Painters, French Cultural Institute, Cracow, Poland