Jadwiga Sawicka
Jadwiga Sawicka was born in 1959. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She creates paintings, photographs, objects and text installations, also in the public space. She is also a curator. She works at the Faculty of Art of the University of Rzeszów. Jan Cybis Award in 2013 and Katarzyna Kobro Award in 2017. Since the end of the 1990s, her paintings have been characterized by a particular and subversive use of language, featuring single words or familiar linguistic clichés. Jadwiga Sawicka’s text paintings have come to be among the most recognizable signs in modern Polish art.
Exhibitions
Collections:
Museum of Art, Łódź
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
MOCAK, Cracow
Contemporary Art Foundation, National Museum, Warsaw
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
20th Art Gallery, National Museum, Cracow
Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Collection, Cracow
Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom
Arsenał City Gallery Collection, Białystok
Dolnośląskie Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych, Wrocław
Łódzkie Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych, Łódź
Małopolska Fundacja Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej, Cracow
Lubuskie Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych, Zielona Góra
Egit Foundation, Warsaw
ING Foundation, Warsaw
Private collections
