Hanna Grzonka-Karwacka. In year 1999 she graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Fine Art (Graphic department), Poland.  Since 2005 she has been working  at the Institute of Fine Art (her Alma Mater) where she runs the Drawing Studio. Her artistic work deals with the issues of identity, memory and post-memory. She uses various types of media: experimental printmaking, drawing, painting, object and animation. Participant of artistic residencies (North Wales School of Arts and Design, Wrexham, Great Britain, 2008; Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, China, 2012). Author of workshops and artistic actions. She presented her works at 30 individual and over 200 collective exhibitions, in Poland and abroad. In year 2024 she has been a finalist of Osten Biennial Skopje and Arte Laguna Prize in Venice /Arsenale Nord exhibition 16^th Nov. – 8^th Dec. 2024/

Solo Exhibitions:
1. “Reminiscences”, Gallery of Cistercian Monastery, Rudy, Poland (2023)
2. “Quaderno”, Morcinek Museum, Skoczow, Poland (2022)
3.”In the noise and silence”, Enfilade Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland (2019)

4. “Registers of memory”, Gallery of the City Museum, Zabrze, Poland (2018)

Group Exhibitions

• Osten Biennial of Drawing, Skopje, Macedonia (2018)
• 42-nd  Mini Print International of Cadaques, Spain (2022)
• “Changing world”, Stephen McLaughan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2023)
• “Interspaces”, Hot Bed Press, Salford, Great Britain (2023).
• “Shadow-Rethinking Othello's story", Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey (2023)
• “(In)visible cities”, Alma Mater Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (2024)
• 12-th Lessedra International Painting and Mixed Media Competition, Bulgaria (2021)
• Osten Biennial of Drawing, Skopje, Macedonia (2024)
• Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy (2024)

Awards

1.Awarded with DISTINCTION (short film, animation) at National Independent Film Competition, Konin, Poland (2014)
2. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Poland (2010)
3.Selected for the art residency in Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, China, (2012)

4 Selected for the art residency in NEWI, Wrexham, Great Britain (2008)

5. Received her Ph. D in fine art (2009)

6. been granted with the title of associate professor (University of Silesia, Institute of Fine Arts), 2019