Agnieszka LECH-BIŃCZYCKA (b. 1984), Imprint II, 2021

mixed media (corundum splatter, aquatint), paper, 100 x 70 cm, 6/30, signed lower right: ALBińczycka, 2021 + dry stamp ?

Born in 1984. Graduate of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Rzeszów, majoring in Art Education with a focus on the Visual Arts, specializing in printmaking (intaglio). Graduated with honors in 2008 from the studio of Prof. Włodzimierz Kotkowski. Recipient of a scholarship from the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation (2008). In 2011, she completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (under the supervision of Prof. Henryk Ożóg). Since 2012, she has been employed as an assistant professor in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Faculty of Art of the University of Rzeszów, and since 2020 as a professor at the University of Rzeszów’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she lectures on the history of printmaking and teaches classes in the intaglio printing studio. She has participated in over 150 national and international exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

Awards and honors:

2022 – Honorable Mention in the 5th International Guadalupe Posada Print Contest, Museo José Guadalupe Posada/Mexico; Award at the International Graphic Arts and Art Book Competition – GraficaRi, Croatia, 2020 – Third Prize at the 5th International Ex Libris Exhibition Skopje 2020, North Macedonia; Award from the Mayor of Rzeszów, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Drawing of the Year 2019–2020, BWA Rzeszów; 2019 – Honorable Mention in the 2nd National Artistic Print Competition Grafiteka 2019, Warsaw; 2018 – Third Prize in the Painting, Print, Sculpture, and Drawing of the Year 2018 competition, BWA Rzeszów; 2010 – Honorable Mention in the “Toward the Old Masters” competition, Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library; 2010 – Third Prize in the Young Artists’ Review, Podkarpackie Art Festival, Rzeszów; 2009 – Honorable Mention from the Jury Chair at the 2nd National “Boundaries of Drawing” Triennial, Rzeszów


Participation in group exhibitions (selection):
2022 – 7th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Romania; “Ja-Ona, Ja-On,” MM Municipal Art Gallery, Chorzów Cultural Center, Chorzów, Poland; 5th International “Guadalupe Posada” Print Contest, Museo José Guadalupe Posada, Mexico; 1st International GCB-MiniPrint 2022, Graphik-Collegium Berlin, Germany; 13th International Ex-Libris Competition, Gliwice-Cieszyn, Poland; IPC International Mini Print/Taiwan; VIII International Etching Biennial, Valladolid/Spain; International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 R.O.C., Taichung/Taiwan; The Fifth International Biennial of Printmaking, Čačak, Serbia; International Exhibition of Prints and Artist’s Books in Rijeka – GraficaRi, Rijeka, Croatia
2021 – 10th International Graphic Triennial – Bitola 2021, North Macedonia; 21st International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria; Aerowalk, an exhibition as part of the 11th Polish Graphic Arts Triennial, Art-React Foundation, Krakow Technology Park, Krakow; Second International Mini-Print Triennial “Intaglio,” Kyiv, Ukraine; Third International Print Biennale, Yerevan 2021, Armenia; International Print Triennial in Cieszyn
2020 – 5th International Ex Libris Exhibition Skopje 2020, Macedonia; Maxi Print Berlin 2020, Berlin, Germany; The International Biennial of Miniature Art – Timisoara 2020, Romania; 6th Edition of the Biennale of Contemporary Printmaking – Diego Donati Prize, Perugia, Italy; 17th International Triennial of Small-Format Prints, Poland – Łódź; 6th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Romania; 7th International Etching Biennial 2020, Spain;
2019 – Bucharest International Print Biennale 2019, Romania; Maxi Print Berlin 2019, Berlin, Germany; 2nd National Artistic Print Competition “Grafiteka” 2019, Warsaw; Second International Print Biennale Yerevan 2019, Armenia; 20th International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria; 7th Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China
2018 – 10th Polish Print Triennial, Katowice 2018; 4th International Biennial of Nude Marko Gregović, Montenegro; Ex Libris Competition Varna 2018, Bulgaria; International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2014 – 10 Years Have Passed... Best Diploma 2004–2014, International Center for Graphic Arts in Kraków; Printmaking Is a Woman. Polish Printmaking of the 20th and 21st Centuries, MCSG in Kraków; 15th International Biennial of Small-Format Prints and Ex Libris, Ostrów Wielkopolski
2013 – International Print Triennial Kraków–Istanbul, Turkey; The 17th International Print Biennial – Varna 2013, “Boris Georgiev,” Bulgaria;
2012 – 8th Polish Print Triennial, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice; 7th International Print Triennial – Bitola 2012, Republic of Macedonia
2011 – Agnieszka Lech-Bińczycka. Prints, Lamelli Gallery, Kraków; Touch, Klimy Bocheńskiej Gallery, Warsaw
2010 – Toward the Old Masters…, Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library, Warsaw; International Print Triennial, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg; Druckfrisch. Prints by Young Polish and Austrian Artists, Vienna;
2009 – 6th National Biennial of Student Printmaking, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań; 7th Polish Print Triennial, Katowice; Grand Prix of Young Polish Printmaking – Kraków 2009, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
2008 – Kulisiewicz and His Scholars, Przy Van Gogha Gallery, Warsaw