Peter Baczek, painter and printmaker, was born in Webster, Massachusetts in 1945. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1963. He received his BA in Art with a concentration in printmaking from San Jose State University in California in 1970.  Baczek moved to San Francisco in 1975 and continued his studies, concentrating on etching, at Fort Mason Art Center in San Francisco. He bought a Sturges CP5 press in 1980 and currently works in his studio in Oakland, California. 

Over the years Baczek has been included in national and international print competitions, receiving numerous awards. He is a member of and exhibits with the Boston Printmakers, the California Society of Printmakers, and the Society of American Graphic Artists. Baczek served as president of the California Society of Printmakers between 2014 and 2105. He has participated in many group exhibitions in galleries and museums, including the Berkeley Art Center, the Triton Museum, the Tokyo Art Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Tucson Museum of Art and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

The work of Peter Baczek is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Janet Turner Print Museum, University of California, Davis; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; the Tucson Museum, Arizona; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Baczek wrote this about his approach to working:

“I choose to depict cityscapes through a more refined interpretation of the composition before me. The use of shadows, texture, and value establish areas of movement and light that create a certain mood.”