Katarzyna Karpowicz (born 1985), The Girl and the Sea, 2019

oil, canvas, 60 x 40 cm, signed l.d.: 'Kat. Karpowicz 19' and inscribed on the reverse: 'KATARZYNA | KARPOWICZ | "GIRL and | SEA" | 60x40 | oil/canvas | 2019'.

In 2005, she graduated with honors from the local State High School of Fine Arts. She studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Prof. Grzegorz Bednarski and in the studio of Prof. Leszek Misiak. Diploma with an excellent grade in 2010. She has had 19 solo exhibitions, including: 2021 - "Moment", Wirydarz Gallery, Lublin; 2020 - "Silver", Art Gallery, Warsaw; 2019 - "Small Great Life", Platon Gallery, Wroclaw; 2018 - "Blue Glass", Art Gallery, Warsaw; 2018 - "Theater of Everyday Life", Raven Gallery, Krakow; 2017 - "Goodbye, Till Tomorrow", Triada Gallery, Gdansk; 2016 - "Human Stories", Promotional Gallery, Warsaw; 2016 - "Genius Loci", Artemis Gallery, Krakow; 2015 - "Harold and Ernest," Bartholomew Church, Lower Basildon (UK); 2014 - "Life of an Image," Szép Műhely Gallery, Budapest (Hungary); 2013 - "Man and Animal," Mazovian Center for Culture and Art - Elektor Gallery, Warsaw; 2013 - "Between Light and Shadow," Jagiellonian University Pharmacy Museum, Krakow; 2011 - "I Dreamed," Art Gallery, Warsaw; 2011 - "Transformations," BWA Gallery, Zamosc. She has participated in dozens of group exhibitions, including: 2021 - "Antigravity," BWA Gallery, Tarnow; 2019 - "Young Polish Painting," National Museum in Gdansk, Division of Contemporary Art; 2019 - "Realism, Two Views," BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz; 2017 - "Configurations," Krakow Art Meetings, ZPAP, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; 2016 - "Espacios, ciudades, arquitecturas, gente....", Montsequi Galeria, Madrid, (Spain); 2015 - "Abstraction, figuration, contemporary Krakow painting", MANK Gallery, Szentendre (Hungary); 2015 - "Exercises", Platan Gallery, Budapest (Hungary). Katarzyna Karpowicz's works are in many collections at home and abroad, and in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Gdansk. In 2019, she was awarded the Anna Maria Siemieńska Grazella Foundation Creative Fellowship for outstanding young artists. Since 2014, she has been regularly listed among the top ten Polish artists in the Kompas Young Art Ranking.