Aneta Kowalczyk, 1980

Nymph, 2018
Mixed Technique, paper 100.00 x 50.00 cm
She graduated from the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting. In 2012 she received a diploma with distinction in the Studio of Intaglio Techniques under the direction of Prof. Krzysztof Wawrzyniak. She completed an annex to her diploma in the Drawing Studio led by Prof. Zbigniew Purczynski. She is a laureate of the 9th International Competition of Kosciuszko Ekslibrises organized by the National Museum in Wroclaw, as well as the 4th and 6th Competition for Small Graphic Forms organized by the Amcor Gallery in Lodz. In 2012, she was awarded by the Association of International Triennial of Printmaking in the category of "Best Diploma in Printmaking 2012 - a student and his promoter of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz". In her work, she combines graphic techniques with acrylic painting, watercolor painting and drawing. Her work could be seen in three solo exhibitions, in 2017 at the exhibition "Impermanence" presented at the ELart Gallery in Lodz, in 2015 at the Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling in Denmark, in 2014 at the exhibition "On Emotions. Graphics Exhibition" presented at Foto Cafe 102 in Lodz, as well as at numerous national group exhibitions: in three editions of the Independent Salon of Lodz Young Artists at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, the UMŁ Gallery, the Balucka Gallery and the Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, the Jerozolimskie 107 Cultural Courtyard Gallery in Warsaw, the Lodz and Cracow Galeria Ekslibrisu, the Panorama Racławicka Museum, the BWA in Rzeszów and Kielce, the Raczyński Library, the Castle Museum in Malbork, and abroad: in Australia as part of the Australian Bookplate Design Award, Bulgaria as part of the 10th and 13th International Exlibris Competition, and at exhibitions in Germany and Finland. In 2015, she took part in Arturo da Mota Miranda's art project Contemporary International Ex-Libris Artists.