Agata Nowak (b. 1983), Imaging X, from the series "My Alchemy," 2021

oil, acrylic, pigments, oil pastel, marble flour, canvas, 90 x 130 cm, signed on the back: 'Agata Nowak | Picturing X from the series "My Alchemy" | oil, acrylic, pigments, pastel, marble flour | 90 x 130 cm | 2021 |'.

Graduated from two faculties at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan: graphic design in 2008 (diploma with distinction under Prof. Andrzej Bobrowski) and painting in 2010 (diploma with distinction under Prof. Józef Walczak). Since 2012, she has been working at her alma mater (currently the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznań) as an assistant in the XV Drawing Studio at the Faculty of Painting and Drawing. She has presented works in dozens of group exhibitions and several individual exhibitions (the last one in 2021 "Between Illusion and Abstraction" ODA in Piotrkow Trybunalski). She participated in, among others: "Promotions" Young Painting Review at the Art Gallery in Legnica (2010); Quadriennale of Polish Woodcut and Linocut at the BWA Art Gallery in Olsztyn (2011); European Biennial Competition for Graphic at the Municipal Museums of Bruges in Belgium (2012); VI Quadro ART International Biennial of Painting in Lodz, Poland (2018); V Triennial of Polish Contemporary Painting "Autumn Confrontations" organized by BWA in Rzeszow, Poland (2019); Chitrasanthe Art Fair in Bangalore, India (2021). The artist's works are in private collections at home and abroad.