Alicja Habisiak-Matczak, Buenos Lanes, 2020

etching, aquatint, paper, 10 x 7.5 cm ed. 5/15 signed, dated and described at bottom: Pazaże Buenos 5/15 Habisiak Matczak2020/ aquatint ta with etching

Alicja Habisiak-Matczak was born in 1978 in Piotrkow Trybunalski.
From 1997 to 2002 she studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In 2002 she defended her diploma with distinction in the Studio of Gravure Techniques of Prof. Krzysztof Wawrzyniak Since 2004 she has been employed at her alma mater, since 2016 as Head of the Studio of Gravure Techniques as a professor at the academy. In 2003, she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Italian Government and completed a six-month graphic design internship at the Urbino Academy of Fine Arts and the KAUS International Graphic Arts Center in Urbino. Since 2013, together with Giuliano Santini, she has initiated and coordinated the PATA Summer International Courses in Printmaking and Artistic Textiles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, whose seven editions have been very successful among artists from all over the world.

In 2009, she defended her doctoral thesis: "Perspectives - a series of prints and drawings on the theme of urban space" and, by a resolution of the Council of the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting of her alma mater, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts. In September 2015, she was awarded a postdoctoral degree by a resolution of the same Faculty Council.

She is conducting innovative research on experimental intaglio techniques under grants from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, such as salt aquatint, ferrotint and non-toxic etching techniques. She is currently researching electro-etching and the use of monotype in intaglio printing.

In 2007 she was awarded the "Young Poland" Scholarship Program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding Polish artists of the younger generation, and in 2013 she was awarded a scholarship from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw with exhibitions in Rome, Urbino and Fano.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2021
Grain in experimental intaglio techniques - a collection of prints inspired with urban architecture , IMPACT'11, Hong Kong
2019
Probable Spaces, Polyglot Gallery, Proyecto Ace Fundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Parlando con Jacopo e Lorenzo , Oratorio San Giovanni Battista in Urbino, Italy
Alicja Habisiak-Matczak. Grained Images - experimental intaglio , Department of Arts & Design, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
2018
Polish Interlacing - Alicja Habisiak-Matczak , Headbones Gallery, Vernon, Canada.
2017
Alicja Habisiak-Matczak. Truthful Landscapes , Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra
2014
Il furore del segno in Alicja Habisiak - Matczak , Studio 10 City Gallery, Vercelli, Italy.
Alicja Habisiak Matczak - Graphic art - Gallery Odnowa, The Strzemiński Academy
of F ine Arts Łódź
2013
Flash Graphic Tour - Urbino - Il Furore del segno in Alicja Habisiak-Matczak.
Sala Mostre Collegio Raffaello, Urbino, Italy.
Flash Graphic Tour - Roma - Il Furore del segno in Alicja Habisiak-Matcza k,
G alle ria Arte e Pensieri, Rome, Italy
Flash Graphic Tour - Fano - Il Fu rore del segno in Alicja Habisi ak-Matczak,
2009
Perspektives - a collection of graphics and drawings on urban space, White Wall Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland (part of doctoral dissertation).
2007
Alic ja Habisiak-Matczak - Graphics, Amcor Rentsch Gallery, Lodz, Poland.
2006
Alic ja Habisiak-Matczak - Graphics, IN BLANCO Gallery, Lodz, Poland.
Alicja Habisiak-Matczak and Tomasz Mat czak, Markoviec Art. Galery, Wageningen, Hol andia
2005
Alicja Habisiak - graphics and drawings, Conte mporary Art Gallery KLER, Warsaw, Poland.
2004
145 mq e oltre, disegni e incisioni, (In 145 sq m and Beyond - drawings and prints) International Centre for Artistic Printmaking, Urbino, Italy.
Se luce ed ombra, diseg n i e incisi oni di Alicja Habisiak, Casa Raffaello, Urbino, Italy
Travels with Spirit, Prints and Drawings, The Gallery of the Art Society of Lodz, Lodz.