Hanna Bakuła

Hanna Bakuła was born in 1950 - painter, set designer, costume designer, writer. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1981 she lived in Manhattan. While staying in the United States, she won many awards there, including an IREX scholarship recommended by the Guggenheim Foundation, and was also a laureate of the Festival of Slavic Painters in New York. In 1990, she returned to Warsaw, where she started collaborating with many fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazines. 

On September 10, 2022, the Hanna Bakuła Art Gallery "No Ba!" was opened in a tenement house on the Market Square in Prudnik. The Prudnik Land Museum has the largest collection of the artist's works.