Wioleta RAZZEWSKA (b. 1986), Gooseberry, 2023

oil, canvas, 40 x 30 cm, signed on the back

Wioleta Rzążewska was born in Puławy.
In 2012, she entered the Institute of Art Education at the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw to earn her bachelor's degree with distinction in Prof. Marzanna Wróblewska's painting studio in 2015.
In the same studio of Prof. Marzanna Wróblewska, in 2017, the bachelor's student
graduated with honors, defending her master's degree with a series of nine large-format works; this series was titled One Hundred Years!
The works caught the attention of Prof. Jerzy Hausner, founder of the Foundation for State Economy and Administration. As a result, the entire series of canvases Sto lat ! was shown to the public at an exhibition at the Nowa Huta Cultural Center, and later purchased by the Agency for Economy and Public Administration for the collection of the University of Economics.
Since 2018, a member of the Association of Polish Artists.

In 2019, 2020 and 2021 she was ranked in the Compass of Art.
Winner of the Scholarship Program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Young Poland".
In 2013/14, 2014/15; 2015/16, 2016/17 she was the winner of the JM Rector of APS scholarship for the best students.
And in 2015/16 and 2016/17 she was awarded a scholarship from the Center for Thought of John Paul II of the City of Warsaw.

Author of more than a dozen solo exhibitions. Participant in dozens of group exhibitions.


Awards and distinctions:

- Laureate of the Cultural Award of the Marshal of the Lublin Voivodeship in the field of artistic creativity, 2023.
- Finalist of the 5th National L. Wyczółkowski Painting Competition in Bydgoszcz, 2022
- Special award honorable mention in the competition "What about values? Truth.", Zajezdnia History Center, Wroclaw, 2021
- Finalist in the 1st Biennale of Painting Lublin Spring, Lublin, 2021
- Honorable Mention Award and 1st Collector's Award - Renata Adamczyk in the Dystans Art Competition Painting and Sculpture, Krakow, 2020.
_x001F_- Finalist of the 4th L. Wyczółkowski National Painting Competition in Bydgoszcz, 2020.
- Winner of the Competition of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts for the best thesis 2016/17
- Finalist of the 2nd L. Wyczółkowski National Painting Competition in Bydgoszcz, 2016.
- Winner of the APS Rector's Competition for the best thesis 2014/15

Exhibitions:

2022 r.
- post-competition exhibition, 5th National Leon Wyczółkowski Competition, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz

- solo exhibition "Stopped Scenes", Nadwiślańskie Museum, Kazimierz Dolny

2021 r.
- post-competition exhibition "What about values? Truth.", Zajezdnia History Center, Wroclaw, 2021
- collective exhibition "Painting 2020-2021". Painting Section of the OW ZPAP,
DAP Gallery, Warsaw, 2021
- individual exhibition "Once upon a time, not so long ago..., today.", Karkonosze Museum, Jelenia Góra
- post-competition exhibition, 1st Biennale of Painting Lublin Spring, Center for Meeting of Cultures, Lublin.

2020 r.
- post-competition exhibition, Dystans Art Competition Painting and Sculpture 2020, Cracow.
- Post-competition exhibition, IV All-Polish Leon Wyczółkowski Competition, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz.

2019 r.
- individual exhibition, Meeting of worlds, Kamedulski Underground, Warsaw
- individual exhibition, Meeting of worlds, Ochota Culture Center, Warsaw
- individual exhibition (permanent exhibition) titled One hundred years!, University of Economics, Cracow.
- individual exhibition titled Stopped Scenes, Annex Gallery, Chemist's House, Pulawy.
- individual exhibition titled One hundred years!, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zielinski Palace, Kielce.

2018 r.
- individual exhibition titled Inconspicuous, APS Gallery, Warsaw.
- individual exhibition titled Stopped Scenes, Pragaleria, Warsaw.
- individual exhibition titled One hundred years!, White CENTRUM Gallery, Nowa Huta Cultural Center, Krakow

2017 r.
- individual exhibition titled Stopped Scenes, Artistic Square Gallery, Ryki

2016 r.
- post-competition exhibition, 2nd All-Polish Leon Wyczółkowski Competition, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz.