Agata Słowak
Agata Słowak, Crushes, 2022, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, photo: Marek Gardulski
Agata Słowak was born in 1994. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where in 2019 she defended her diploma titled I Am Beautiful, I Am a Great Artist!. Her graduation project received the top prize in the academy’s annual best diploma competition, Coming Out (now renamed OutComing). As part of her diploma work, Słowak created a series of paintings along with a complementary installation titled Feminist – the Contemporary Witch, the centerpiece of which was a group of dolls sewn from fabric using a sewing machine.
She is considered one of the most acclaimed Polish painters of the young generation. Her work consistently addresses feminist themes, filled with enigmatic symbolism and references to both tradition and contemporary social issues, particularly those concerning women.
The artist lives and works in Warsaw.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2024
SZTUKĄ DIABŁA TŁUKĄ, BLUM, Los Angeles A Marriage of Heaven and Hell, BLUM, Tokyo
2023
Time Is Love, Fortnight Institute, NYC
2022
Only Our States, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
2019
HWDPięknu, Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw (Diploma Exhibition)
Group Exhibitions
2024
Mary With(out) Child, Gnyp Gallery, Antwerp Visionsof the World, Museum Kamp, Prague TEFAF Maastricht, New York, BLUM, New York Pępek Snu, Galeria Miejska, Wrocław
2023
Warsaw
Borders of Art. 30 Years of Polityka Passport, PGS Sopot
2022
Association of Associations, Dzielna Foundation, Warsaw
Seven Stages in the Life of a Woman, The City Art Gallery in Lodz RAW, Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai
The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw Mouthed Echoes, Lyles & King Gallery, NY
Bad Relations, Gallery Academy Salon, Warsaw
2021
WHAT DO YOU SEE, YOU PEOPLE, GAZING AT ME, Sadie Coles HQ, London Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, NY
Mainly for Women, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Who Will Write the History of Tears, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2020
Wages for Housework, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
2019
Paint, also Known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Pedagogical Body, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
2018
Nobody is Born a Woman, BSCK, Busko Zdrój
Wihajster Freiheit Swallow, Gallery Academy Salon, Warsaw
2017
Agatki, Gallery Kaplica, Warsaw
