Dimensions: 70 x 90 cm
signed in pencil on the reverse: 'A.Kus'
signed, dated and described in pencil on the reverse: 'AGATA KUS | UMRZYJ | OLEJ NA FLATNIE | 70 x 90 cm | 2015 | series "Ashtrays"'.
Exhibited
"Artists from Krakow. Generation 1980-1990", group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Krakow, 16.10.2015-27.03.2016
"Problems of the first world: life before death", group exhibition, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, 26.01-31.03.2019
"Problems of the first world: life before death", group exhibition, Roundabout of Art, Katowice, 1.08-7.09.2019
"Salon Shefter Gallery", group exhibition, Shefter Gallery, Krakow, 14-30.06.2019
"Agata Kus. Horror Picture Show", Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, 7.12.2019-19.01.2020
"#collections #2000 #2020", group exhibition, BWA Tarnów, 14.03-18.04.2021
"ARTEÏA - Night Art Patrol Collection," Arteïa, Kraków, 1.10-31.12.2021
Literature
Artists from Krakow. Generation 1980-1990, exhibition catalog, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, 2016, p. 132 (il.).
Agata Kus. Paintings, Kraków 2016, pp. 80-81 (il.).
Problems of the first world: life before death, exhibition catalog, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw 2019
Boooooom. Collection of the Dell'Arte Foundation, exhibition catalog, Kraków 2019, p. 29 (ill.)
Agata Kus. Horror Picture Show, exhibition catalog, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow 2020, p.142 (il.).
Biography
Agata Kus works in painting, drawing, ceramics and video. She is a graduate and PhD student of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 2012 she defended her diploma in Prof. Leszek Misiak's studio, and in 2018 she received her PhD. She has received numerous awards and scholarships. She is a winner of the 2015 WRO International Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw. In 2017, she was nominated for the Deutsche Bank and Zacheta "Views" Award. In 2011 and 2018, she was a finalist for the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Prize. In 2021, she won first place in the Kompas Młodej Sztuki ranking published in "Rzeczpospolita". Her works are in public collections including the National Museum in Gdansk, the Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK in Krakow or the collection of the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, as well as in numerous private collections in Poland and abroad.
