Dominika Kowynia

About artist

Born
23.05.1978
Country
Poland

Born in 1978 in Sosnowiec. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Diploma in the Painting Studio of Professor Jacek Rykała (2003). In 2010 she received her PhD degree at her home university. Scholarship holder of the Marshal of the Silesian Province (2012).

She deals with figurative oil painting. She is interested in the contact of personal experience with current events, the latest history and literature.

The author of several individual exhibitions, among others: 'Attempted Reversal', Galeria Bielska BWA (2020); 'Flour oil paint', Municipal Art Centre, Gorzów Wielkopolski. (2019); 'Eyes of Drought', Grey Gallery, Katowice (2018); 'Double Binding' – an exhibition in the KARROT space as part of the Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2018; 'People of Sand', Widna Gallery, Cracow (2017).

She has presented her works at numerous group exhibitions, among others: 'Paint means blood', Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2019), 'Communication with everything that is', Stefan Gierowski Foundation in Warsaw (2018), 42nd and 43rd Biennial of Painting 'Bielska Jesień' (2015 and 2017 – an award from NN6T).

Works

Dominika Kowynia

Beautiful Beast

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