photo Anna Bruślik

AGNIESZKA ŻAK

She was born in 1982 in Warsaw, Poland.

She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan (2004-2005).

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

Diploma in 2007 at the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Prof. Jaroslaw Modzelewski and an annex to the diploma in the Studio of Art in Public Space under Prof. Miroslaw Duchowski, which she completed with distinction.

Winner of the ‘Prof. Józef Szajna Diploma 2007’ funded by the Mazovian Governor on the initiative of Prof. Józef Szajna and the Studio Gallery in Warsaw.

Awarded a scholarship funded by the Entry Initiative.

Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 2010 and 2020.

In July 2019, she defended her doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the studio of Prof. Stanisław Baj.

Scholarship holder of the City of Warsaw, 2019.

She runs the Drawing and Painting Studio at the Interior Design Department, UTH in Warsaw.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2025 r. Les Chiffons, Galeria Sotto 63, Warszawa

2024 r. Obraz Słowo Tradycja, Galeria Stalowa, Warszawa

2023 r. ‘Blue Line,’ Bacalarte Art Gallery, Warsaw.

2022 r.  Cultural Melting Pot Forma House of Culture, Warsaw.

2021 r.  ‘Curtain’ BWA Zamość Gallery, Zamość.

2019/2020 r. ‘Shawl and culture vs. ornament and tradition,’ STALOWA Art Gallery, Warsaw. Scholarship project funded by the City of Warsaw.

2019 r. ‘The shawl and ornament vs. culture and tradition,’ doctoral dissertation, Exhibition Gallery, Warsaw

2017 r.  ‘Scar.f in the Wind’ Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York, USA.

In collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute in NY and the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

2017 r.  The Hollows Art Space Gallery, New York, USA.

2017 r.  Jadite Galleries, New York, USA.

2016 r. ‘Tower of Babel’ Mind Partners Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Performance with the participation of Reni Jusis.

2016 r.  Nielaba Gallerie, Bern, Switzerland.

2015 r.  ‘Multi - Kulti’, Izabelin Cultural Center.

2015 r.  STALOWA Art Gallery, Showroom in Zamość, Poland.

2015 r.  STALOWA Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2015 r.  Mito Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2014 r.  Hotel Bristol, Warsaw, Poland.

2014 r.  Pienkow Gallery, Teennesse, USA.

2013 r.  Pienków Gallery, Żmudź.

2011 r.  Mostra Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2010 r.  Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

 

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

2022 r. ‘Her portrait’ STALOWA Art Gallery

2019 r. ‘Young Polish painting’. Palace of Art National Museum in Gdansk. Basil Alkazzi & Halima Nalecz Fund.

2018 r. Exhibition of the winners of the painting competition named after Leon Wyczółkowski. BWA Bydgoszcz.

2017 r. ‘Kompas Sztuki, a ranking of young Polish artists’. Olympic Center, Warsaw.

2017 r.  ‘3rd International Art Conference in Beacon’, NY - participation in the symposium, lecture on his own work with presentation.

2017 r. 15th Warsaw Art Fair - STALOWA Art Gallery stand.

2017 r. Art Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

2016 r. 14 Warsaw Art Fair - STALOWA Art Gallery stand.

2016 r. Art Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

2016/2017 r. ‘Warschau ist feminin’, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Germany, In cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute and the Polish Consulate in Berlin.

2016 r.  ‘Small is Great’ Jadite Gallery, New York, USA.

2016 r.  ‘Ornament of Seeing’ Night of the Museums, Lutheraneum of the Evangelical Augsburg Church, Warsaw, Poland.

2016 r. Exhibition of doctoral students of the Faculty of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

2015 r.  ‘Summer Salon’ STALOWA Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2015 r.  ‘Timbre’, Lutheraneum of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Warsaw.

2014 r.  Exhibition of doctoral students of the Faculty of Painting, Styk Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw.

2014 r.  ‘What do they have in common? Prof. Stanislaw Baj and PhD students’. ES Gallery, Międzyrzec Podlaski.