Agnieszka PIETRZYKOWSKA (born 1978).
Dawn in Chicago, 2018.
acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
signed l. d. corner: 'aga pietrzykowska'
signed and described on the reverse: '"AWIT | in CHICAGO" | Aga Pietrzykowska | 2017-2018'.
Interdisciplinary Artist. Illustrator, painter, graphic designer, stylist, intercultural relations specialist. She is a graduate of Intercultural Relations at the Faculty of Neophilology of the University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she received her diploma with honors in the Illustration Studio under Prof. Zygmunt Januszewski (2008). Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.Thanks to the support of the Polish Embassy in Portugal, an exhibition of the artist's works was held in Lisbon in March 2014. In June 2013 she represented Poland at the IV International Art Fair - "ARTVILNUS'13" in Vilnius. She was a contender for the Best Foreign Artist Award.
Under the curatorship of Kama Zbolarska, an exhibition was held at the Gallery (-1) of PKOL in July 2012, in which Pietrzykowska presented painting series that were created since 2009. Aga Pietrzykowska's works have been presented at more than a dozen collective and individual exhibitions, along with works by outstanding artists such as Jan Tarasin, Tadeusz Dominik, Radoslaw Szaybo, Waldemar Swieży, Jan Sawka and Krzysztof Penderecki (artwork "Cosmogony", diptych - etching - aquatint from a score 1971). She designs unique jewelry - occasional, sports jewelry for EURO2012 and was the first to undertake the realization of author's lunar jewelry - addressed to astronauts, lunonauts and dreamers; she has exhibited at the Museum of Sports in Warsaw and the Museum of Sports in Kyiv, the Poster Museum, the Legnica SATYRYKON, the Old Brewery in Poznan and at specialized shows.
Her illustrations are published in international and national magazines, and she also collaborates with publishing houses for which she designs book and album covers (including CLAM Magazine, Polityka, Ivy, Slow Magazine, Lounge Magazine, Dialog Publishing House, PKOL). She has collaborated with the Polish Designers Foundation, provided artistic support to TVN24, FORT Sokolnicki Art Center and SAS Institute. She created the Four Dash art group. She is a member of the STGU group, collaborates with artists from OW ZPAP and the FIBAK&GalleryStore and Saatchi Online Gallery. She is active in the curatorial team (Love&Art CURATORS Fall in love with art | Fall in love with art ). More than 150 works of the Artist are in private collections at home and abroad, including the USA, Australia, Germany, Portugal, Ukraine, France, Lithuania and the UK.
