Jagoda Kaczmarczyk-Hudzik (b. 1966, Kraków), "May on the Vistula," 2026

Biography
She graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 2007. She received her diploma with honors under the supervision of Prof. Jan Pamuła. During her studies in 2003–2004, she was awarded a scholarship from the Minister of Culture. She was awarded the Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 2010, as well as an honorable mention from the magazine “Sztuka.pl” in the painting competition titled “Polish Landscape.” The two paintings awarded in that competition, titled “Vistula Landscape,” marked the beginning of a series of works that the artist continues to this day. In 2016, a wall decoration for the lobby and individual floors of the Albatross Towers Joda Bed building in Gdańsk was created based on one of the artist’s paintings. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as plein air painting events, including one in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River. She lives and works in Kraków, near the Vistula River, where she draws daily inspiration for her paintings, as well as in Lanckorona, where she is passionately restoring an old house. The artist’s works are included in many private collections in Poland and abroad.