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Monika Lukowska is a printmaking artist from Poland currently based in Perth, Western Australia. She obtained her MA from the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw, Poland in 2011 and MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, USA in 2014. Lukowska’s artworks are widely exhibited internationally. She is a recipient of a Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award for the Best Graduate Diploma in Poland 2011, Fulbright Graduate Student Awards, 2012 and Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards for the Best Graduate Students in the Bay Area, 2013. Lukowska is currently pursuing her PhD in Fine Arts at Curtin University in Perth where she works as a sessional academic. She is also Print Council of Australia Representative for Western Australia and a co-founder of Print Lab Australia (www.printlabaustralia.com).
Educational background:
2015 - current Curtin University, PhD in Fine Arts, Perth, Australia (under examination)
2012 - 2014 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Printmaking, San Francisco, CA
2006 - 2011 Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw, MA, Printmaking Major, Wroclaw, Poland
Awards and Honours:
2016 Second Prize, 5th International Printmaking Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Curtin Strategic International Research Scholarship, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
2013 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco,CA, USA
2012 Fulbright Graduate Student Awards, Polish - American Fulbright Commission, Warsaw, Poland
2012 Young Artists Award, City Katowice Government, Katowice, Poland
2011 Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award for the Best Art Diplomas Academies of Fine Arts, Minister of Culture, Gdansk,
Poland
2010 Scholarship for printmaking workshops at University of Tennessee, Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation, Knoxville, TN, USA
2010 Scholarship of Town Council City of Wroclaw for one - time project, City Council, Wroclaw, Poland
2009 President of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design Award for Beginning Artists, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland
Selected exhibitions:
2018
Convergence, (collaborative exhibition Monika Lukowska, Melanie McKee), La Central Gallery, Santander, Spain
Talking place (collaborative exhibition Monika Lukowska, Sarah Robinson, Jane Whelan, Annette Nykiel), Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain
Six printmakers and a wordsmith, (collaborative book project, Curtin University Print Research Studio), Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain
Higher Degrees 2018, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
Encountering place, (solo show), Gallery Central, Perth, Australia
2017
On the Map, Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, Australia
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia
1st International Print Biennale Yerevan, Armenia
Locale, Heathcote Museum and Gallery, Perth, Australia
2016
Terminus, in search of (im)possible conclusion, Paper Mountain Gallery, Perth, Australia
1st TKO International Miniprint Exhibition 2016, Tokyo- Kyoto-Osaka, Japan
XVI Biennial of Mini Print and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
Passion for Printmaking, Zig Zag Gallery, Kallamunda, Australia
4th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Romania
5th International Printmaking Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
Szczecin in Close –Up. Points of view. Philharmonic Hall, Szczecin, Poland
2015
Post-digital printmaking. Redefinition of the concept of matrix, Neon Gallery, Wroclaw Poland
Gippsland Print Award 2015, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC, Australia
GMT+8, exhibition during IMPACT 9 conference, Museum of Modern Art, Hangzhou, China
7th Lithographic Symposium, Tidaholm, Sweden
2014
If....Google Headquarter, Mountain View, CA, USA
IV International Biennial of Digital Printmaking, Gdynia, Poland
XV Biennial of Mini Print and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
Principal, The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA, USA
Icon Data 2014, Virtual Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art
A Vibrant Fusion of Art and Life: When Printmaking Revisits the Murals of the Mission Lands, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
In Search of New Printmaking:Polish Case, ArtZone Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Imagining Cityscapes, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
ArtExchange, College Art Association Conference, Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA
2013
Art Scope Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Review of Contemporary Polish Lithography, BWA Gallery, Kielce, Poland
Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Awards, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Continuing MFA Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Icon Data,Virtual Contemporary Museum of Printmaking
Untenable Dynamism, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2012
Art_by_telephone...recalled, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Nomands, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Transient in Freies Museum, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
Graf/o/mania, Gallery Awangarda, Wroclaw, Poland
2011
A Prospective Get Together, Salon Kuiperdomingosprojects, Berlin, Germany
True Love Stories, SURVIVAL Festival, Wrocław, Poland
The Best Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland 2011, Gdansk, Poland
Imprint 2011, Second Kulisiewicz International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Chaos and Order (solo show), Gallery Miejska, Wroclaw, Poland
Face the Place, Place the Face, Gallery Entropia, Wrocław, Poland
XIV Biennial of Mini Print and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
31 Mini Print International of Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
VII Biennial of Student’s Printmaking, Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
2010
Polished, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN, USA
Face the Place, Place the Face, project in collaboration with Malgorzata Sprawka, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
4th Ludwig Meidner's Graphic Competition, Olesnica, Poland
The 6th International Lithographic Symposium, Tidaholm, Sweden
30th Mini Print International Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
2009
4th International Drawing Competition, Ratusz Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland
XIII Biennial of Mini Print and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
International Print Triennial Cracow Poland - Grand Prix of Young Polish Print, Krakow, Poland
VI Biennial of Student’s Printmaking, Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
29th Mini Print International of Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
Artists Residency:
December 2014 February 2015 Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia
May 2012 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
Conferences and lectures:
2018 Printing places: encountering the world via printmaking practice. IMPACT10, International Printmaking Conference,
Santander, Spain
2017 Absorptive mapping: a means of understanding place through art practice. AAANZ conference, University of Western
Australia, Perth.
2016 Text and textures: methods of evoking an artistic experience in the work of art, AAANZ conference, Australian National
University, Canberra.
2016 Walking the work of art: the potential of walking practice as an artistic tool of inquiry, HDR Research Symposium School of
Design and Art, Curtin University.
2016 Printmaking as an Expanding Field: traditional techniques in conjunction with digital technologies, Printmakers Association
of Western Australia, Perth.
2011 Rediscovering Lithography; Stone Print and its Digital Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice, Mica Moca, Berlin, Germany.