Kowalczyk graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, receiving her diploma under Agata Pankiewicz. After her studies, she won the Mayor of Cracow art grant and worked as a graphic designer and lecturer in photography. Since 2008, she has lived in Edinburgh, where she completed post-graduate studies in photography at Edinburgh College of Art (2010). Her Temporal Portraits qualified for the prestigious publication reGeneration2: Tomorrow`s Photographers Today, ed. William Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer, and for the Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed best diplomas exhibitions, Photographers` Gallery in London (2011). Her latest series, the Nightwatching, was shown in the Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, May 2012. Works in collections: Musee de l`Elysee in Lausanne, Forward Thinking Museum in New York and Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
2007/2012
pigment print, Fuji Fine Art Photo Rag 300 g, 40 x 40 cm,
signature and date on the reverse,
edition: 1/20 + 2 a.p.
In 2007, the complete Chicas series was shown at the Wozownia Gallery in Toruń and printed in its catalogue with a text written by the curator, Krzysztof Jurecki.
Kowalczyk graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, receiving her diploma under Agata Pankiewicz. After her studies, she won the Mayor of Cracow art grant and worked as a graphic designer and lecturer in photography. Since 2008, she has lived in Edinburgh, where she completed post-graduate studies in photography at Edinburgh College of Art (2010). Her Temporal Portraits qualified for the prestigious publication reGeneration2: Tomorrow`s Photographers Today, ed. William Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer, and for the Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed best diplomas exhibitions, Photographers` Gallery in London (2011). Her latest series, the Nightwatching, was shown in the Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, May 2012. Works in collections: Musee de l`Elysee in Lausanne, Forward Thinking Museum in New York and Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.