Aleksandra Janik

Aleksandra Janik was born in 1971 in Katowice, Poland.

She received her MFA in printmaking from the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland in 1996.

Since 2010 she has held the position of associate professor at the Studio of Digital and Experimental Printmaking in the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, where she is currently a Vice Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media Art.

She is the winner of several prizes and mentions including the following: the First Prize at the Contrasts Photography Exhibition, SohoPhoto Gallery, New York, USA (2010); the Jury prize at the 15th German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany (2008); the Jury Prize at the 14th Tallinn Print Triennale, Estonia (2007); the Jury prize at the 4th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Japan (1998).

Selected exhibitions:

2013 Homo viator, photo-instalation, The Municipal Public Library in Opole, Poland (solo exhibition)

2012 Artisterium. The Protest that Never Ends, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia

2012 Printmaking and Education. Poland’s Art Universities, Pałac Sztuki Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych, International Print Triennale, Kraków

2012 Contemporary Polish Printmaking Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

2011 Contemporary Polish Printmaking Exhibition, The College of Art and Design, Kyung Hee University, Korea

2011 The Collection of Polish Artists’ Books from the turn of the century, Muzeum Musashino University of Arts Tokyo, Japan

2010 Contemporary Polish Printmaking Exhibition, Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, China

2009 Trans-lokals Proyecto’Ace, Buenos Aires, Agrentina (solo exhibition)

2008 The 7th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan

2006 Grand Prix Young Polish Print, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland

2004 Negative Being, Kipp Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, USA (solo exhibition)