Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

About artist

Born
16.04.1978

Born in 1978 in Zakopane. Degree in sculpture under Professor Józef Sękowski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 2004. Grant from  the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2018) and the American Government program – International Visitor Leadership Program (USA, 2015); honourable mention at the 42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015; a finalist at the same competition in 2017,  as well as an honorary mention in the 44th edition of Bielska Jesień 2019 (2019).

The organizer and curator of the Romani Art project and the annual Jaw Dikh! International Event of Roma Art in Czarna Góra,  international Romani plein-air competitions within the Jaw Dikh! (Come and see!)  program; participant of the International Sculpture Symposia in Brno, the Czech Republic (2017 and 2012). She is involved in projects which concern the Romani community, counteract social exclusion, racial discrimination, xenophobia. Selected exhibitions: Side Thawenca / Sewn with Threads, Galeria Antoniego Rząsy, Zakopane (2019); Mówiąc własnym głosem (Speaking with One's Own Voice), Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw (2019); 3rd Biennale of Art, Timișoara, Romania (2019); Prawo spojrzenia / The right to look, Galeria Szara Kamienica, Kraków (2018).

Works

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Poker

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