Agnieszka Łakoma

A graduate of the Art High School in Katowice. In the years 2000-2006 she studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts and at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2005 she defended her master's thesis entitled "Modern formula of peintre-graveur in the Kraków artistic environment of the second half of the 20th century" under the supervision of prof. Tomasz Gryglewicz in the history of art, and in 2006 she defended her diploma entitled "Curtains" in the studio of dr hab./prof. ASP Marcin Surzycki at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2012 she obtained a doctorate in fine arts at the same faculty for her doctoral dissertation entitled "Wniebowzięci", whose supervisor was also dr hab./prof. ASP Marcin Surzycki.

Since 2013 she has been the City Art Director in Kraków.
She is also a member of the International Graphic Triennial Association in Kraków and the Association of Polish Visual Artists.

In the years 2016-2020 she held the position of a member of the Museum Council of the Museum of Photography in Krakow.
She lives and works in Krakow.
In her work, the artist consistently explores the field of artistic graphics, using its classic formal elements: lines and color gradations. At the same time, she experiments with new techniques. The interest in optical effects leads the artist to create graphic works that go out of the plane into space. Rhythmic, shaded elements build op-art illusions of solids that move and change arrangement thanks to lenticular printing, serigraphy and illuminated lightboxes.
She created graphic and painting series: Zasłony, Consumo, Wniebowzięci, Selfmade City, Moving City, Fleur mystique and Via Lucis.

The author has participated in over fifty exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including Don't Look Back, Wrocław Drawing Triennial 2022, MWW Museum of Contemporary Art Wrocław (2022), Hanseatic New Gold, Riga Art Space, Riga (2021), International Graphic Biennial R.O.C. 2020 at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan (2020), the 16th and 17th International Biennial of Small Graphic Forms in Łódź at the Municipal Art Gallery (2017, 2020), the 7th International Graphic Biennial in Guanlan at the China Printmaking Museum (2019), the exhibition Reality and Its Variations at the Reykjanes Art Museum, Keflavík, Iceland (2019), the 10th Triennial of Polish Graphics at the Silesian Museum in Katowice (2018), the exhibition Multiplicity in Unity. Offset, Serigraphy, Digital Techniques and Intermedia Activities in Polish Graphics at the L. Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz (2018), the International Electrographic Art Exhibitions of Small Forms at the B32 Gallery in Budapest (2017), Mind mapping at the Nuremberg House in Krakow (2018), Grand Prix of Young Polish Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2015), Selfmade City at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow (2015), International Graphic Arts Triennial at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey (2013), 8th Polish Graphic Arts Triennial at BWA in Katowice (2012), Grand Prix of Young Polish Graphic Arts at Szczepański Square in Krakow (2012), Printmaking from Krakow at Kiehle Art Gallery in Minnesota, USA (2010), Grand Prix of Young Polish Graphic Arts at Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow (2009), Biennial of Young Art “Fish Eye 5” at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk (2008), International Graphic Arts Triennial Krakow-Oldenburg Vienna (2007).

Her works are in the collections of: China Printmaking Museum, Reykjanes Art Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum in Warsaw, Magyar Elektrográfiai Társaság MET, Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź, Jagiellonian Library, Association of Polish Artists in Kraków, Association of International Graphic Triennial in Kraków, Art Library of the University of Zielona Góra, as well as in private collections in Poland and abroad.

Awards and distinctions:
2021 – Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2008, 2013, 2016 – Grand Prix of the Best Graphic of the Month, ZPAP Kraków
2013 – Award in the category Hommage a Nicolas Schőffer, 6th Matrices 2012 International Exhibition of Small Form Electrographic Art Budapest
2005-2006 – Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage