Viola Tycz, (B. 1973), Act 1, 2017

acrylic, HDF board, 33 x 33 cm

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, scholarship holder of the Joan Miro Foundation/Spain, winner of the 4th edition of the Young Poland scholarship program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions during the most important presentations of contemporary graphics. She is a multimedia artist - she does printmaking, painting, video, installation. Her works are in the collections of, among others, the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Cracow, the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Triennale of Graphic Arts in Cracow and private collections. In 2013, she opened Viola Tycz's Studio/Gallery, which was modernized and renovated under the European Union Funds. In 2014, the artist's paintings were auctioned at Christie's Auction House in London. Sotheby's Auction House funded a scholarship for the artist for her unconventional graphic techniques.