Tankpetrol

Tankpetrol is a Polish street artist using stencils as his main medium, which he entangles with carefully placed background details, making neat, well-executed art pieces.Born in 1982 in Poland as Irek Jasutowicz, he spent his teenage years doing graffiti tags. His obsession over details, visible in his artwork, was noticeable in his childhood – he used to spend hours assembling plastic models of planes, boats and tanks.
Born in 1982 in Poland as Irek Jasutowicz, he spent his teenage years doing graffiti tags. His obsession over details, visible in his artwork, was noticeable in his childhood – he used to spend hours assembling plastic models of planes, boats and tanks. In the later years, he joined the army, where he was a tank driver and tank gunner – and that’s from where his moniker originated. After quitting his army job, in 2006 he moved to Manchester in search of a decent paid job which he couldn’t find in Poland. It was in Manchester where Tankpetrol first got in touch with stencil art, inspired and influenced by anonymous street artists.
His search of personal style and development led him to complex looks, in which he tries to fade stencils and spray paint using other techniques like acrylic paint and various mixed media. Although he doesn’t want to use multi-layered stencils, in order to preserve a certain look of stencil art in his pieces, Tank’s works are highly detailed, full of background elements like upside-down triangles, geometric shapes, self-made fonts, typography and logotypes. Central figures in his work in most cases are women dressed in military fashion, surrounded by animals and depicted in strong posture.
Using a combination of stencils, fonts and traditional paint, Tank is comfortable working across a variety of media and projects that include painting, customizing, creating large scale murals, interior design and carpentry, always retaining the finest quality of his works.
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2025
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery
Up the Alley, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark

2024
Apophenia, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark

2022
Volta Art Basel, KIRK Gallery, Basel, Schweiz
KIRK Gallery – Aalborg, DK, “Ancient Rites and Rituals Begun Again”

2019
Corey Helford Gallery – Los Angeles, “The Call of the Void”

2017
Corey Helford Gallery – Los Angeles, “Artificial Winter”

2015
Lazarides Gallery – Rathbone Place, London “The Chosen Form of Your Destroyer”

2014
The Outsiders Gallery – Greek Street, London “Endless Summer”

2013
Joshua Liner Gallery – New York, “Season 1, Episode 0”

2012
Lazarides Gallery – Rathbone Place, London “10,000 years from now”

2011
Joshua Liner Gallery – New York, “Fireland”

2010
Lazarides Gallery – Rathbone Place, London “Exodus”

2009
MTV Gallery Space, Sydney with Kinsey/DesForges “Ian Francis: New Works”

2008
Kinsey/DesForges, Los Angeles “Together Forever”

2007
BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles “Super Coma Fantasy”

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Urban Fractions, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark

2023
Art Miami, Corey Helford Gallery – Los Angeles
10 year anniversary | Out in the Open, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
The Fourth Wall, Corey Helford Gallery – Los Angeles
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg

2020
Inside Out, KIRK Gallery, Danmark

2019
Up The Wall, KIRK Gallery, Danmark

2017
Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles “Context Art Fair NY”
Urban Nation, Berlin “Urban Nation Museum for Contemporary Urban Art”
Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles “‘Flourish’ at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum”
Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles “Fort Wayne Museum of Art”

2016
Lazarides Gallery, London “Still Here, A Decade Of Lazarides”
Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles “10th Anniversary Exhibition”
Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York “Art Basel Miami”

2014
Lazarides Gallery, Newcastle “PULP”

2012
Joshua Liner Gallery, New York “Summer Group Exhibition 2012”
Lazarides Gallery, The Old Vic Tunnels (London) “Bedlam”

2011
Lazarides Gallery, The Old Vic Tunnels (London) “The minotaur”
Joshua Liner Gallery, New York “Summer Group Exhibition”

2010
Lazarides Gallery, The Old Vic Tunnels (London) “Hell’s Half Acre”

2008
Lazarides Gallery, London “The Outsiders” (New York)
Lazarides Gallery, London “The Outsiders” (London)
NEXT Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

2007
Lazarides Gallery, Newcastle “The Outsiders” Inaugural Opening
Art Basel Miami, Red Dot, BLK/MRKT Gallery
BMG Artists’ Annual 07, BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles

Klara | Acrylic, spray paints and hand cut stencils on panel | 100x70 cm
Broken Rose | Acrylic, spray paints and hand cut stencils on canvas | 100x70 cm
Unmoored | Acrylic, spray paints and hand cut stencils on plywood panel in birch ply box frame panel | 114x70 cm