Agnieszka Nienartowicz
b. 1991 in Jelenia Góra, Poland
Lives and works in Kraków, Poland
Represented by Nicodim Gallery
EDUCATION:
2013 – 2016 – Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland, MA Degree in Painting
2011 – 2013 – Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 – Echoes, Nicodim Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023 – Sweet Burden, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 – Longing for Another World, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 – The Hardest is to Feel Free, BWA Gallery, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2020 – Delight and Terror, Gallery EL, Elbląg, Poland
2015 – painting exhibition, BCK Contemporary Art Gallery, Brzeg, Poland
2015 – painting, drawing and printmaking exhibition, Katarzyna Napiórkowska Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 – Half-asleep, Pies i Róża, Gdańsk, Poland
2015 – Existence of things, Mini Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
2024 – Felix Art Fair with Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2024 – DISEMBODIED curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023 – The Landscape of Polish Painting, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2023 – The Armory Show with Nicodim Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023 – MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, presented by Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, USA
2023 – Secret Longings, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023 – Dream State, Stolen Space Gallery, London, Great Britain
2022 – Winter Salon, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 – Spätsommer, Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany
2022 – Tattoo. Symbol, Stigma, Beauty, Muzeum Etnograficzne im. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej, Toruń, Poland
2022 – Artists for Amnesty, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
2022 – The New Romantics, Arcadia Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
2021 – Winter Salon, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 – LA Art Show with Arcadia Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 – ENLIVENING VOL II, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 – ENLIVENING, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 – Women Painting, European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
2021 – 5rd Painting Triennial ANIMALIS, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Włocławek, Poland
2020 – 5rd Painting Triennial ANIMALIS, Centrum Kultury Śląskiej, Nakło Śląskie, Poland
2020 – 5rd Painting Triennial ANIMALIS – exhibition of works of the finalists, City Art Gallery MM, Chorzów, Poland
2020 – Les Interprétations du passé, Galerie Manualis, Évian-les-Bains, France
2019 – Art Salon with Manualis Galerie, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2019 – Art Salon Art International Zurich with Manualis Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2019 – Strokes of Brilliance, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2019 – Painting Today, European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
2019 – 11th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Art Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
2019 – Artful Companions, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2018 – BIG ART. small canvas, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2018 – Women Painting Women | Men Painting Men, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2018 – International Figurative Biennale, John Natsoulas Art Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
2018 – Secrets of The Twisted and Entwined, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2018 – 9th annual juried art show to benefit The Retreat Fresh StART Collective, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2018 – 3rd International Painting Competition of the Three Bridges Foundation, Promocyjna Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2018 – Realism. Two Looks – painting exhibition, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2018 – 3rd International Painting Competition of the Three Bridges Foundation, Przy Kozach Gallery, Służewski Dom Kultury, Warsaw, Poland
2018 – 10th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st century, John Natsoulas Art Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
2018 – Winter Collective, Sirona Fine Art, Hallandale Beach, FL, USA
2018 – WTF, Art Palm Beach with Sirona Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2018 – 4rd Painting Triennial ANIMALIS, Centrum Kultury Śląskiej, Nakło Śląskie, Poland
2017 – Artists for Peace, Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Art Gallery, CA, USA
2017 – 9th Triennial of Polish Contemporary Drawing, Test Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2017 – Visions of Space and Form, John Natsoulas Art Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
2017 – painting exhibition, John Natsoulas Art Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
2017 – 9th Triennial of Polish Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Kresy, Lubaczów, Poland
2017 – 4rd Painting Triennial ANIMALIS, City Art Gallery MM, Chorzów, Poland
2017 – New Painting/New Look, BWA Gallery, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
2017 – New Painting/New Look, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
2017 – Young painting in Gdańsk. Diplomas of 2016. – Great Armory’s Assembly Hall, Gdańsk, Poland
2016 – CHECKING!, BWA Gallery, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2016 – Deep water, Gdańsk City Gallery 1, Gdańsk, Poland
2016 – Art as a game, Gdańsk City Gallery 2, Gdańsk, Poland
2016 – 13th Józef Gielniak’s Graphics Competition, Karkonoskie Museum, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2015 – The Grand Prix of Franciszka’s Eibisch Foundation, Napiorkowska Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 – 5th International Drawing Competition the name of M. E. Andriolli – exhibition, Nałęczów, Poland
2015 – Ale Sztuka! – Young Polish Art, Contemporary Art Center SOLVAY, Cracow, Poland
2015 – Tu i tam, in collaboration with Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, USA, Arturs Manor House, Gdańsk, Poland
2015 – Wszystko/na/nic, exhibition during the European Night of Museums, Great Armory’s Assembly Hall, Gdańsk, Poland
2015 – Mercedes, Mercedes-Benz salon, Gdańsk, Poland
2015 – exhibition of paintings by students of the Faculty of Painting of Academy of Fine Arts, Debiut Gallery, Gdynia, Poland
2015 – Wszystko za 16, 16deko, Sopot, Poland
2014 – Small forms in graphics and sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
2014 – Prolog, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
2014 – Experiment, Martha Gault Art Gallery, Maltby Center, Slippery Rock University Campus, Pennsylvania USA
2014 – Contrasts, in collaboration with Slippery Rock University – Pennsylvania, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
2014 – Experiment, Refektarz Gallery, Kartuzy, Poland
2014 – 6th All-Poland Student Drawing Exhibition RYSOWAĆ, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, 2014
2014 – Night – exhibition during the Night of Museums, Great Armory’s Assembly Hall, Poland
2014 – exhibition of the 1st International Higher Education Institution for Art Studies Student Drawing Triennal, Katowice, Poland
2014 – 3rd International Review of Art Alternatywy 33, Galeria 33, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Gdańsk
The Bennett Collection
Hilton group
Various private collections worldwide
SCHOLARSHIPS:
2015/2016 – Culture & National Inheritance Minister
2015/2016 – Rector of Fine Arts Academy
2014/2015 – Rector of Fine Arts Academy
2011 – Culture & National Inheritance Minister
2010 – President of Jelenia Góra
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:
2020 – 3rd place in the 5rd Painting Triennial ANIMALIS, Chorzów, Poland
2019 – finalist of the 14th International ARC Salon Competition, Port Reading, New Jersey, USA
2018 – Best of The Guide Artists 2018 – selected as 1 of the 27 best artists of the 2018, The Guide Artists
2018 – Collector’s Choice Award – award for the painting of the month (February), PoetsArtists
2018 – finalist of the 3rd International Painting Competition of the Three Bridges Foundation, Warsaw
2018 – finalist of London Contemporary Art Prize 2018, London, UK
2017 – distinction in the 4rd Painting Triennial ’ANIMALIS’, Chorzów, Poland
2017 – finalist of a painting competition New Painting/New Look, Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2015 – Certificate of Exellence, Palm Art Award 2015, Germany
2015 – finalist of a painting competition The Grand Prix of Franciszka’s Eibisch Foundation, Napiorkowska Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 – finalist of a painting competition Ale Sztuka! – Young Polish Art, SOLVAY Contemporary Art Center, Cracow, Poland
2014 – 3rd place in the 1st International Higher Education Institution for Art Studies Student Drawing Triennal, Katowice, Poland
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
2017 – preselection to the second stage of 9th Figurativas 2017 Competition, Barcelona, Spain
2015 – execution the large-format mural on the main wall of Gdynia Film Center, Gdynia, Poland
2014 – participation in the project Re-Akcje 2 combined with the exhibition, organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
2013 – execution of the mural design, interior of Center of Applied Arts and Innovation in Wrocław, Poland