Jozef Bajus
Jozef Bajus
Associate Professor
(716) 878-4133
Campus Address: Upton Hall 413
bajusj@buffalostate.edu
1979-85 Academy of Fine Arts and Design /AFAD, Bratislava, Slovakia
Jozef Bajus is associate professor of design and coordinator of the fibers program at Buffalo State College. In 1985 he received his M.F.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia). He is an award-winning fiber and mixed media artist and his work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, Korea, the U.S., and Canada. He has taught fiber workshops at the American Craft Museum, Penland School of Art and Craft and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Bajus' artworks are in numerous museum collections and private collections in Europe, the U.S., and Canada.
Experience
2005 Associate Professor - Tenure with promotion, Buffalo State College, New York
2002 Buffalo State College, Coordinator of Fiber/Design Program, Buffalo, New York 2001 Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, USA
1995 Head of the Fiber Program at AFAD, Bratislava
1995 Assoc. Professor in Fiber
1990 Head of Textile Design Studio, AFAD, Bratislava
1985-90 Textile Designer at Textile Mill, Ruzomberok, Slovakia
Exhibitions (selected)
Solo exhibitions
2006 Curved Circle, Gallery of Koloman Sokol, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia
2006 Curved Circle, Buffalo Art Studio, Buffalo, New York
2003 Compositions, Stayvesant Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2001 Marta Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
1999 Gallery P.M.Bohuna, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia
1999 Montclair State University, New Jersey
1998 Slovak Cultural Center, Warsaw, Poland
1998 Lehigh University Gallery, Pennsylvania
1997 Slovak Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
1996 Rutgers University Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1996 Art Gallery in Dolny Kubin, Slovakia
1995 Gallery of Jan Koniarek, Trnava, Slovakia /Catalogue
1993 Art Gallery in Fredericton, Province New Brunswick, Canada
1992 Michalska Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Group exhibitions - juried
2007 The Fiber National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2007 Vessel, Membership Exhibition, Brew House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2007 Contemporary, Membership Exhibition WNYAG, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2006 Craft Art Western New York 2006, Burchfield - Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York
2006 Focus: Fiber 2006, The Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio
2005 60th Rochester - Finger Lake Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
2004 Craft Art Western New York 2004, Burchfield – Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York
2004 Focus: Fiber 2004, The Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio
2004 Small Expressions 2004, Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
2004 Strands of Fabrication, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2004 Greater Midwest International XIX, Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, Missouri
2004 17th Annual Valentine Exhibition, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2003 Greater Midwest International XIII, Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, Missouri
2003 Up Close Far Away, Members show SDA, Kansas City, Missouri
1998 Dialogues- New Art from Slovakia, Frederiksberg, Denmark
1998 New Art from Slovakia, Lehigh University Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1997 Common Space 2, Outdoor Exhibition, Pezinok, Slovakia
1997 Small Pieces for Europe, Gallery of Bebington, Bebington, England
1997 Fiber Art on the Outside, ETN- Exhibition in Runcorn, England
1996 Artslink ’96, The Rutgers Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1995 Bulwark, Outdoor Fiber installations, Bratislava, Slovakia
1994 10 Jahre Internationale Textilkunst in Graz, Graz, Austria
1994 Fiber- Slovak Textiles ’84- ’94, SNG, Bratislava, Zvolen, Slovakia
1994 10th Biennial of Minitextiles, Savaria Museum, Szombathely, Hungary
1993 Close in Counter- Cultural identity, Pallfy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
1993 Common Space 1, Dom Kultury, Bratislava, Slovakia
1993 Geometry VIVA, Dom Kultury, Bratislava, Slovakia
1993 Space ’93 - Outdoor exhibition, Piestany, Slovakia
1993 Fiber Art ’93, Museum of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland
1993 Other Europe, 2nd Biennial of Tapestry and Textile Art, Tournay, Belgique
Invitational exhibitions
2007 Layers, Inside Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2006 Informal Bookworks, UB Center of the Arts, Buffalo, New York
2006 The Touch of Slovakia, Place de la Grande Pecherie, Mons, Belgium
2006 Miniature Textile Biennial, Gallery X, Bratislava, Slovakia & Gallery u Prstenu, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 Paper Trial: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
2004 Substrata, Walker Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2001 On Paper- New Paper Art, Craft Council Gallery, London, England
1999 Chongju International Craft Biennial ’99, Chongju Art Center, Chongju, Korea
1999 United Nations Headquarters, Secretariat Lobby, New York City, New York
1993 Fiber Art ’93, Museum of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland
1989 5Jahre Jnternationale Textilkunst in Graz, Austria
1988 6th International Biennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland
Awards (selected)
2007 The Fiber National Award, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2007 First Prize, “Contemporary” Membership Exhibition -WNYAG, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2004 Third Place Award 17th Annual Valentine Exhibition, ”Figure It Out”, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1992 Honorary Mention "Interplays ‘92", World Crafts Council Exhibition Dom Kultury, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
1988 First Prize 1st International Triennial of Patterns Muczarnok, Budapest, Hungary
1985 First Prize "Yang Fashion Creator" Liberec, Czechoslovakia
Fellowships, residencies, grants
2007 Workshop - visiting artist – instructor at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee
2006 Workshop – Identity of the Space - instructor at Slanica Craft Center, Orava, Slovakia
2005 Workshop - instructor at Penland Craft School, North Carolina
2001Workshop and lecture at American Craft Museum, New York
2000 Visiting artist/guest lecturer, Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA
2000 Visiting artist/guest lecturer - Fibers Workshop-Summer Session,Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle-Maine, USA
1999 Visiting artists/guest lecturer Winter Session Course, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1996 Artslink Program at The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Sponsored by The Soros Foundation, CEC International partners, USA
1994 Visiting artist/guest lecturer The Amsterdamse Academie voor Beeldende Vorming Amsterdam, The Nederlands
1993 Visiting artist/guest lecturer. The New Brunswick College of Crafts and Design, Fredericton, Canada
1993 The Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design, Halifax, Canada
1993 Ecole Atelier Construction Textile du Montreal, Montreal, Canada
1993 The Trent University, Nottingham, Great Britain
Museums and collections
Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin
Szombathely Art Museum, Szombathely, Hungary
Moravian Art & Craft Museum, Brno, Czech Republic Slovak NationalGallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Bajus’ artworks are included in private collections in Europe and the USA
Memberships
ETN European Textile Network
I.A.P.M.A. International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists
TXT Slovak Textile Association
HGA - Handweavers Guild of America,
The Western New York Artist Group -Buffalo
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh