Anna KRÓLIKIEWICZ (1970), Portrait

lithograph, paper; framed: 48 x 36 cm; in st. p-p: 22.5 x 19, 5 cm
Provenance private collection Gdynia

Polish contemporary artist creating installations, painter, illustrator, teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. She received her diploma with honors in the studio of Professor Hugo Lasecki in 1993. She started working at the academy as an assistant at the Academy's Faculty of Painting. In 2018. The President of the Republic of Poland awarded her the academic title of professor. From 2001 to 2003, she led the Drawing Composition, Illustration and Color Symbolism studio at the Faculty of Art at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Initially, she worked on monumental drawing. Since 2010, the main medium of her work has been food - issues of taste physiology, synesthesia and haptics. The author of many solo exhibitions, she has participated in dozens of group exhibitions at home and abroad. She has shown her works in New York, Istanbul, Ankara, Kiel , Brussels or at international festivals of contemporary art, but also in a forest in Oliwa , an abandoned butcher store in Sopot or an empty apartment in Krakow's Salwator. Winner of rector's awards for artistic and pedagogical achievements, twice a scholarship holder of the City of Sopot and the Marshal of the province. Winner of the award of the President of the City of Gdansk for 25 years of creative work, and the Muse of Sopot in the field of Culture and Art. Awarded with a badge of merit for Polish culture.