Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
signed lower right: 'P. Taranek'
signed on the reverse: 'Paulina | Taranek.'
Biography
A graduate of the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she currently lives and works. Erasmus scholarship recipient in Antwerp (2011/2012). Her works have been featured in solo exhibitions in Kraków, Warsaw, Łódź, and Częstochowa, including at the BWA Gallery (“Big City Light,” 2019). She has participated in national and international group exhibitions—in Brussels, Tokyo, and at art fairs in Vancouver and San Diego. The artist has won numerous awards, including in the National Geographic “I Paint What I See” competition for her interpretation of Kraków’s Lajkonik, the nationwide “Zadra” competition (2012), “The Magic of the Four Denominations District” in Wrocław (2013), and received an honorable mention in the International G. J. Steenke Portrait Competition. From 2021 to 2024, her works were featured at the Museum of Kraków in the “Coexistence” exhibitions and at the Krzysztofory Palace, as well as at the Wozownia Gallery in Toruń (2022). She was featured in the American *Artist Portfolio Magazine*, and an article about her work appeared in *Life is Art Magazine*. At the turn of 2020 and 2021, she was named one of the “Faces of Częstochowa’s Future.” Her works have been published in *Women of the Academy* and *Feminatives of the Academy*, published by the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
