Aleksandra Szewczuk BIO
Aleksandra Szewczuk is a Polish artist working in the current of abstract expressionist color field painting. Born in 1982, based in Poland. Szewczuk participates in national and foreign exhibitions among others solo show at the National State Art Gallery in Sopot (PL), group exhibition with Andre Fournelle and Artbeats Artists Collective at Centre national d’exposition (CNE) in Quebec (CA) also Center of Contemporary Art at the El Gallery in Elblag (PL). Her works belong to private collections in Warsaw, Cracow, Sopot, Poznan, New York, Sydney, Montreal, Dusseldorf, Stockholm, Rome, Lisboa, London and also in the collections of the National Sate Gallery in Sopot.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022 “Battements” group exhibition with Andre Fournelle and Artbeats Artists Collective, CNE Quebec, Canada
2020 Final Exhibition of The Nationwide Competition named by Leon Wyczółkowski, BWA Bydgoszcz (catalog)
2019 Final XIII Triennial of Small Painting Forms in Toruń (catalog)
2019 Final III Pomeranian Art Triennial, State Gallery in Sopot (catalog)
2008 “Diplomas”, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych, Gdańsk (catalog)
2008 “3 ARTS” Park Technologiczny, Gdynia
2006 “Art Picnic”, Oliwa, Gdańsk
2005 “Scenography and Spatial Forms”, Pałac Opatów, Gdańsk (catalog)
2022 “Battements” group exhibition with Andre Fournelle, Baku, Karine Demers, MAJ Fortier, Malgosia Bajkowska, Mathieu Laca, Miville et Sebastian Gaudette, art curator Antoine Veilleux
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2022 I am, I feel, I see, Duo Exhibition with Maria Krupa at El Gallery, Elbląg
2022 “Borders”, State Gallery (PGS), Sopot (catalog)
2021 COSMA Gallery, Sopot
2020 “Nice Destruction”, ŻAK Gallery, Gdańsk
2019 “I am, I feel, I see” – Hair Bazaar Studio, Poznań
2019 Circle of Everything, Sopot, Dwie Zmiany
2018 “Infiltration”, Pracownia Galeria KIT, Sopot
2017 “Objects and Paintings” Sztuka Wyboru, Gdańsk
2010 “Mamalowanie”, Gdańsk
Scholarships, Prizes and other Projects
2022 Art Scholarship of Mayor of Sopot Jacek Karnowski
2022 Art Scholarship ZAIKS
2020 Gdynia Falochron Kultury for the project “Prints from Art”
2019 Illustrations for animated films for the Polish Ecological Club
2017 Illustrations for 3 animated films for the Plastic Free Baltic project
2013 Art Scholarship of the Mayor of Sopot Jacek Karnowski
2012 Honorable mentions at the National Art Contest by Jeremy Przybora
2011 Drawings to interactive installation How to educate a ruler by Piotr Wyrzykowski based on the “The 48 Laws of Power” by Robert Greene
2010 Stage design & Costumes for the performance SOLARIS for Malta Festival
2008 Illustrations for an animated film titled “Walk to the Library” for WiMBP in Gdansk made together with Łukasz Kaczmarek
2008 Diploma in painting “Ekrany Pustki” defense in the studio of professor Jerzy Ostrogórski – Master Degree
2009 Costumes design collaboration for the film “Polonia Sopot”
2006 Costumes design with Katarzyna Zawistowska to performance “Piaskownica”, Teatr Wybrzeże
2006 Participation in the Master Workshops of Zofia de Ines as part of the Festival “Events”, Tczew
Workshops
2021-2022 Illustrator and cartoon workshops for children in the city library Koc I book WiMBP in Sopot
2022 Author’s painting workshops under the title I create carried out with the Museum of the City of Sopot and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage with young people from the Special School No. 5 in Sopot
2021 Workshops of the State Art Gallery in Sopot
2020 Assistant to Józef Wilkoń during his workshops for children at the Fathers and Children Festival
2016-2020 Repeated participation in the Literary Standby, a nationwide action promoting reading among children organised throughout Poland by the Czas Dzieci foundation
Workshops of the State Art Gallery in Sopot
In addition:
Author’s illustrator workshop at the Sopot Literary Festival
Author’s workshop at the Progesteron Festival
Christmas workshops for the City of Sopot
Illustrator workshops for the popular bookshop Ambelucja in Sopot
Workshops for Zakamarki publishing house
Workshops for the Museum of the City of Sopot
Workshops for the State Art Gallery in Sopot