Viola TYCZ (b. 1973), Display 3, 2016

acrylic, HDF board; 60.5 x 37 cm;
On the back author's certificate of authenticity

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Lecturer at the Higher School of Photography - in the multimedia and video studio. First Polish scholarship holder of the Joan Miro Foundation/Spain, where she had a solo exhibition "Puzzle4you" in 2003. Laureate of the fourth edition of the Young Poland scholarship program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, where she created a painting series "Child/Adult."
She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions during the most important presentations of contemporary graphics/Seoul Korea; Cairo Egypt; Taiwan; Moscow; Germany, New York/. Selected for the prestigious collection of Eastern European Contemporary Graphic Artists published at the University of China. Recognized in the field of painting and printmaking in many competitions -Biennale of Polish Painting in Szczecin, Grand Prize in Cairo, Gold Medal in Italy, etc. She is a multimedia artist - she does printmaking, painting, video, installation /participation in WRO Biennale/. Her works are in the collections of, among others, the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Cracow, the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Triennale of Graphics in Cracow, and private collections. In 2013, she opened Viola Tycz's Studio/Gallery, which was modernized and renovated under the European Union Funds. In 2014, the artist's paintings were auctioned at Christie's Auction House in London. Sotheby's Auction House funded a scholarship for the artist for her unconventional graphic techniques.