Joanna Rajkowska, Poland
Born in 1968 in Bydgoszcz,
Poland
EDUCATION
MFA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, 1988 - 1993
MA in Art History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 1987 - 1992
Studio Semester Program, State University of N.Y., New York, 1994
- 1995
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2002 Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue,[public project], Warsaw
Rosa Stern and the Side Effects, Galeria Nowy Wiek, Zielona Gora
2001 Stockholm International Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
The Diary of Dreams, XX1 Gallery, Warsaw
2000 Satisfaction guaranteed, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski
Castle, Warsaw
Satisfaction guaranteed, AMS - Outdoor Gallery
1999 On Saturday I Eat Sweets and I Masturbate, Open Gallery,
Kraków
Things I Do In the Evenings, Manhattan Gallery, Lódz
1998 Menu of Desires, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow
Starmach Gallery, Krakow
The Love of a Man Named Dog, Contemporary Art Gallery Zacheta,
Warsaw
It Was Not Me, Kronika Gallery, Bytom
1997 Midget House, Biala Gallery, Lublin
Lobster Lovers, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
1996 Trio for Skin, Voice and the Madman, Bucklein Theatre, Krakow
Indispositions. Principles of Internal Medicine, Prowincjonalna
Gallery, Slubice, Poland
Water-Tower. Headache, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
1995 No Sign of Dying Soon. The Past - the Physical Presence,
State University of NY, NYC
Irritation, Zderzak Gallery, Krakow
1994 Fluids, Zderzak Gallery, Krakow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Open House, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The Young Are Realists, Really, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Semiotic Landscape, Charim Gallery, Vienna
Ostensiv-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Oder-Sprung, Kunsthalle Essen, Germany
2001 In Freiheit endlich, Polnische Kunst nach 1989, National
Museum, Krolikarnia, Warszawa
Slubice-Krakow, Prowincjonalna Gallery, Slubice
The Last Woman, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan
Ostensiv, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
Irreligia, Muzeum Atelier 340, Brussels, Belgium
Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2000 Scena 2000, Centre for Contemporary Art., Ujazdowski Castle,
Warsaw
In Freiheit endlich, Polnische Kunst nach 1989, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden,
Germany
Postindustrial Sorrow, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
1999 Blue Fire, 3rd Biennial Praque, Young Artists from Central
Europe, Praque, Czech Republic
1998 Fragment of Collection 3, Zacheta, Warszawa
1997 Re-Bates, The L.C.Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME
1996 Art in Poland, New Directions, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Sensitive, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
Solvay, Blok A/D, LAtelier Gallery, Krakow
1995 Unter Einem Dach, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
1994 Let Me Wash Your Hands, Sauce Place, New York
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2001 The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship
1998 The Civitella Ranieri Fellowship
1997 The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship
1996 The ArtsLink Partnership, Buffalo, NY
Presidents Award of the City of Krakow, Krakow
rajkowska@yahoo.com