Joanna Stożek, "Curtain," 2013

Acrylic on panel, 90x60 cm; framed: 100x70 cm

Joanna Stożek (b. 1948). Graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Krakow University of Technology. In 1999, she received her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Since 2015, she has been an associate professor at the Cracow University of Technology. She has created stage designs for the Grand Theater in Warsaw, Lodz, Musical Theater in Gdynia, Pandora Stage Theater in Helsinki. She is the author of monumental church paintings in Krakow, Radom and Detroit. The artist's works are in the collections of the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow, the Museum of Sopot, Wyane State University in Detroit, the Antonio Peres Foundation Museum in Cuenca, Spain, the Pintura Taurina Museum in Madrid and in private collections at home and abroad.