Alicja Swiatlon MFA
email: alicjaswia@gmail.com
www.alicjaswiatlon.com, Instagram #alicjaswiatlon
EDUCATION:
    •    1995-1997 University of Cieszyn, Poland, ART EDUCATION
    •    1997-2002 Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan now formally known as the University of Arts, Poznan, Poland, PAINTING and  ART EDUCATION
    •    2002 MFA in PAINTING, DIPLOMA WITH DISTINCTION, the University of Arts, Poznan, Poland
    •    2002 MFA in ART CRITIC AND ART PROMOTION: , About Canadian Painting’, the University of Arts, Poznan, Poland


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
            2023 All We Need is Love, Gallery Syre, Bellingham
             2022 Art Basel Miami, Apfa Gallery
             2022 Art For Life Chicago, Chicago
            2021 online Group show ‘Meditations in an Emergency’, curated by Alessandro Stein Diary Gallery
            2021 online Group show- ‘X+VI’, curated by New Art Project
            2021 Isolation Chronicles, online exhibition curated by Sergio Gomez
            2020 Honourable mention in online exhibition “Art Matters” Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
            2017 “We Are Part Of The History”, Art Gallery of Alberta,   Edmonton, Canada
            2017 Art from the Unknown, McDougall Centre, Calgary, Canada
            2017 Auction of  Young Polish Art, Desa, Warsaw, Poland,
            2017 “New Avantgarde” The Wilson Shaft Gallery, Katowice, Poland
            2016 “Summer invitational” juried art exhibition, Art Point Gallery, Calgary
            2015 Lethbridge 10 000 small size award online finalist, Lethbridge Gallery, Australia
            2014 Colour Sensitive, the Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
            2011 Remake, the CKIS Konin, The Wieza Cisnien ( Water Tower) Gallery, Konin,
           2014 Sophia Art Show, St. Barnabas Hall, Calgary
           2009 Energy of Colour, the BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland
           2008 I LOVE, the Made Gallery, Poznan, Poland
           2007 Apropos, the Modena Gallery, Poznan, Poland
           2007 I like it here, the NRD Gallery,Torun, POZNAN
           2007 Young artists-young art, the BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland
           2005 Continuum, the Old Slaughterhouse, Poznan, Poland
           2004 Five Painters from Poznan, the Artists house, Israel
        
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
          2021 Addicted to Colour, The Peanut Gallery, Calgary
          2021 Esker’s ‘In Common’ series, online presentation, Esker Foundation, Calgary, CA
         2018 “Addicted to paint”, LOFT 112, Calgary
         2005 ANABASIS, the Old Brewery Gallery, Poznan, Poland
         2004 THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS, the Engram Gallery, Katowice, Poland
         2004 BETWEEN, the Cage Gallery, Cieszyn, Poland
         2003 FOUR SEASON, the Promotion Gallery, Poznan, Poland
         PUBLICATIONS:
            We are part of the History, Polish Culture Society of Edmonton, AGA, November, 2017
            Polish Panorama, Independent Cultural Magazine, Edmonton, September 2016
            Gazeta Malarzy i Poetow ( Painters and Poets Magazine), 2/2003, Poznan, Poland, nr 2 (48) 2003, ISSN 1231-7020
             V Young Artists Exhibition, VI E. Gepperts’ Competition, Katalog BWA- Galerie Sztuki   Wspolczesnej, Akademy of Fine Arts Wroclaw,  Poland, 2003, ISBN 83-89308-20-7
             The President of Poland Competition for the best diploma in Art and Design, Warsaw, Wilanow, ISBN 83-7100-220-3
            Alicja Swiatlon, Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, the Engram Gallery, Katowice, Poland, ISBN 83-88418-61-0
            Anabasis, Sonia Rammer, Alicja Swiatlon, the Old Brewery, Poznan, Poland
            Alicja Swiatlon, the Promotion Gallery, PKO BP, Poznan, Poland
            5 Painters from Poznan, Jerusalem Artist House, ISBN 83-88947-27-3
            “Labirynt”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland, ISBN 978-84-88458-13-2
COLLECTIONS
            Art work in private collections in Poland, Germany, Italy, Canada, Cape Town and New York