Magdalena Siejko (b. 1977), Salome, 2021

oil, canvas, 240 x 135 cm, signed l.g.: The painting consists of 2 canvases, size: 120 x135 cm, twisted from the back.

Graduate of the Faculty of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She earned her diploma with honors in Prof. Jacek Waltos' studio, an annex in Prof. Teresa Rzepecka - Kotkowska's drawing studio and in Prof. Zbigniew Lutomski's linocut studio in 2003.
In 2006-2009 she completed doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, ending with the defense of her doctoral thesis "In the Face of Carnality- Mortal Images".
She participated in more than 80 group exhibitions at home and abroad and in 15 individual exhibitions (Germany, France, England, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Berlin, London, Dublin, Magdeburg, Nuremberg, Dusseldorf, Orleans, Ostrava, Sofia, Vilnius, Lviv, Krakow ,Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan, Krynica, Kielce, Konin, Czestochowa, Nowy Sacz, Radom, Koszalin, Gdansk, Chorzow, Bielsko Biala, Opole, Tarnowskie Gory, Zakopane).
Between 1997 and 2006, she received art and science scholarships from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and was also a recipient of a scholarship from the Mayor of Częstochowa.

She works in painting, drawing, sculpture and installation.
She is a therapist at ŚDS Vita in Cracow, and also teaches theoretical classes with students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.