Teresa Gierzyńska
Born in 1947 in Rypin, Poland. In 1964–65 she went for an educational art trip to Canada. In 1965–1971, she studied at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in prof. Tadeusz Łodziana’ssculpture studio and prof. Oskar Hansen’s Solids and Planes design studio. Since thelate1960s, photograph and its duplication techniques such as thermocopy or photocopy have become the main tool for the artist's exploration of the representation of women and their role marked by society. Her most known cycle About Herproposes an investigation or introspection within the female identity, the mystical version of feminism, where the photographs are accompanied by adjectives –meaningful titles given to thepictures: Dangerous, Independent, Unapproachable, Mature, Cold, Worried, Thirty Years Old, Useless, Left-handed, Velvety, Caresses, Full of Hope. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Exhibitions
2024
Here and Now, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021
Women Live for Love, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Pause, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2019
FOAF 2019: Teresa Gierzyńska & Isabelle Fein, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
2018
Left-handed, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
2017
Moods, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2014
Touch, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
2009
About Her. Photographs from 1967–2008, Arton Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2008
The Essence of Things, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2004
Four Pictures, Mala Galeria ZPAF, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1993
T.G., Galeria ZPAF, Cracow, Poland
1991
Shadows and covered the body ..., Mała Galeria ZPAF, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1990
About Her. Black, White and Green, Galeria FF, Łódź, Poland
SHE IT ME, Galeria Ściana Wschodnia, Warsaw, Poland
1981
She it me, Ściana Wschodnia Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1976
Graphics (Memories), Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw, Poland