Iwa Kruczkowska

She got her university diploma with first-class honours from the painting studio of Professor Jacek Waltoś, with the annexe from artistic tapestry under the supervision of Professor Lilla Kulka. She earned her speciality stage design diploma in 2004 under the supervision of Professor Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda. 2011- 2012 postgraduate studies at the Faculty of interior design and design of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. PhD - 2017 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Since the same year, he has been an employee of the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

From 2004 to 2020, she participated as a production designer and costume designer in the production of theatre, feature films, shorts films, music videos, commercials, educational films and video art.

She participated in many personal (over 30) and collective (over 270) exhibitions (many times as a curator of the exhibitions also) in Poland, USA, Ireland, England Germany, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Italy, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, India, Switzerland, Albania, South Korea, Georgia, Jordan, Turkey. Including Mail-Art projects in Spain, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Austria, Argentina, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Finland, Chile, Argentina, Brasil and online projects in Australia, Nepal, China, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Bolivia, Egipt, Nigeria.

Awarded many times in painting competitions and honoured with creative scholarships from the City of Cracow and the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship. 

She deals in painting, scenography, unique fabric and artistic education.

Works in many state and private collections in the country and abroad.

Collection of the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow, Poland;
Collection of the Bielsko Art Gallery BWA, Bielsko -Biała, Poland;
Collection of the Historical Museum, Bielsko-Biała, Poland;
Collection of the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland;
Collection of the Craft Museum in Krosno, Poland;
Collection of The Hindiyeh Museum, Aman, Jordan
The Soleil de l'Est collection in Orléans, France
Collection MiM Museum in Motion - Castello di San Pietro - Locanda del Re Guerriero, Italy.            Collection The Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South Korea 
Mikołów Art Collection, Mikołów, Poland.