Alicja Swiatlon MFA
email: [email protected]
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:
2024 The Elements and the Elemental, Salt Spring Gallery, Salt Spring Island, Canada
2023/2024 Salt Spring National Art Prize, Salt Spring Island, Canada
2023 Art For life Chicagi, Chicago
2023 Tossed and Found, Salt Spring Gallery, Salt Spring Island, Canada
2023 Re-Imagined, ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island, Canada
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:
The Salt Spring National Art Prize 2023/2024 catalog
Fishbowl October 2023, Fissue #180
Aqua Gulf Island September/October 2023
Art for life Chicago catalog 2022
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
