Joanna Zakrzewska

Born in 1976 in Rzeszow, Poland, where she graduated from high school of art in 2001. Joanna graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in Professor Sękowski’s studio, Faculty of Sculpture (diploma with honors). In 1999 she was awarded an art scholarship for Athens University in Greece. 

CONTINUED BELOW

Walking Girl

Bronze | 3" W × 10" H × 3" D
Schoolgirl Sold

Schoolgirl

Bronze | 3" W × 10.5" H × " D

BIOGRAPHY

In 2001 she won the Grand Prix at a competition under the patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, for the sculpture project "AD ASTRA". Zakrzewska currently lives and works in Cracow. She creates her sculptures mainly in bronze.

EDUCATION

1991 - 1996   

Art School in Rzeszów

1996 - 2001   

Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS

Labirynt Gallery in Cracow, Poland - “A Way towards Shape”- individual exhibition of sculpture  and paintings

The Palace of Arts in Cracow, Poland -”Professor Józef Sękowski’s sculpture studio” group exhibition 

Brantebjerg Gallery in Danemark - individual exhibition of small sculptures 

Labirynt 2 Gallery, Cracow, Poland - “Small is Beautiful” group exhibition

Kulturspinderiet-Silkeborg, Denmark - “ Tradition and contemporary” - group exhibition 

Gerly Gallery, Copenhagen, Sweden - individual sculpture exhibition

Labirynt Gallery, Cracow, Poland - group exhibition “Broooonze” 

group exhibition of sculpture, painting and graphic works ”Portraits of the big and the small

A girl with a pearl ad others”, Labirynt Gallery and Nordic House, Cracow 

participation in Stockholm International Fair

Labirynt Gallery, Cracow, Poland, Polish Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Kulturhuset Koge, Denmark

“Faces from Andersen” - international group exhibition

Gallery Silkeborg, Denmark (with Labirynt Gallery) - “Sculptures and engravings from Cracow”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Gołogórski Gallery, Cracow, Poland - “Fetish”, group exhibition

Gallery Il Tempo, Bologna, Italy - “Cracovia per Tutti” group exhibition

Zakopane Art Fair, Zakopane, Poland - participation

Parnas Gallery, Katowice, Poland - "Woman in Art" group exhibition

Zakopane Art Fair, Poland - participation

Glaza Art Design Gdańsk, Poland – group exhibition