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Theodore Wujcik, American, born 1936

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"Theo Wujcik was born in Detroit," according to Body and Soul, Contemporary Southern Figures show catalogue. "He is an associate professor teaching painting and drawing at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Wujcik studied fine art at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and did post-graduate work in lithography at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He is a Tamarind master printer, co-founder of the Detroit Lithography Workshop and was shop director of Graphicstudio at USF from 1970 through 1972. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Brooke Alexander, Inc. in New York, the Donald Morris Gallery in Biumingham, MI and Indigo Galleries in Boca Raton, FL.

Wujcik was awarded a research and creative scholarship grant from the University of South Florida, a printmaking fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, a Ford Foundation grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award for graphics." Most recently, he has received grants from the Richard Florsheim Art Fund and the National Endowment of the Arts, through First Night International.

His works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Chicago Institute of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Wujcik is presently showing a 30-year retrospective at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, FL, which opened September 8, 2000. This exhibition will travel to the Lowe Museum of Art in Miami in 2001.