“The most significant in art for me is to meet a viewer in the front
of an artwork and discuss important experiences and social issues
of our time”.
~ Karolina Maria Siwiak
ABOUT:
I am a “twin–working-visual artist”, who exhibited almost 40 – solo and group, prestigious, international and national shows, inter alia in: PARIS, LONDON, NEW YORK CITY, POZNAŃ, TAMPA, CHICAGO. For me, a mix of fine arts and music brings to a totally new experiences.
I worked and collaborated including: The Polish Museum of America in Chicago, Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa Florida, Galeria U JEZUITÓW Poznań, University of Fine Arts in Poznań, The I.S.E. Broadway New York City, The University of Colorado,
The RoCA Rochester Center of Art New York, An École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, London Annual Art Festival.
I was, among other achievements, a MoMA PS1 Finalist for a project with Marina Abramović in New York City, and I am a winner of an artistic award from Poznań City Hall ”for remarkable achievements in painting and drawing(…)”.
I received a help of The MKiDN in Poland – The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland for chosen artists, considered for their extraordinary achievements, during pandemic of COVID-19.
My paintings are among others in art collections of Omenaa Mensah and Rafał Brzoska, and Zofia and Paweł Stanisławscy and at the museum.
EDUCATION:
I gained two Master Fine Arts’ degrees.
I studied and completed degrees with distinctions from the University of Fine Arts in Poznan, University of Technology in Poznań, and PCEUIP Poznań.
I also studied abroad at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, where I gained a full one year study grant, Michael Changnon Scholarship, Senior Art Project and Space, Bachelor’s Final Exhibition at The Associated Artists of Butler County, and Dean’s List. 2011-2012
I completed “Art & Ideas – Teaching with Themes” at MoMA in 2020.
GALLERY AFFILIATION:
,,Galeria Obrazów-KR”, Katowice, Poland, 2025-now
,,FANFARY”, Poznań, Poland, 2023-now
“Groshek Art Gallery”, Chicago, The U.S.A., 2016-2018
“Gallery ArtINSIDE”, Poznań, Poland, 2010-2018
BEING IN MEDIA
“These Paintings Are On View To Whole World”- this title had been given by the WTK TV Station.
Below, a live Interview with Karolina Maria Siwiak. It was a program titled: “Special Guest In The Morning” in WTK TV Station, Poland, 2016.
Topics, which were held during the program i.a.: Invitation & Participation in the show of the Polish Museum of America in Chicago – The U.S.A., Meeting Mr.Demarco at the University of Arts in Poznań.
Jimmy Fallon, a famous late night TV host of The Tonight Show on NBC, and Jonah Hill a famous American alter drew the same, beautiful model in New York City, as me. To see more check out a slide-show, below or watch a show via Youtube, called “Jimmy Fallon and Jonah Hill draw a nude model” or scroll up my webpage and go to ARTWORKS to see my artwork, titled: “Christopher…Almost Like Christ”.
Below: a picture from an interview with Karolina Maria Siwiak for the biggest TV station in the Greater Poland Voivodeship with WTK TV, titled “A Painter From Poznań in Chicago”.
http://wtkplay.pl/video-id-29798-poznanska_malarka_w_chicago
It presents among others: “Groshek Art Gallery” in Chicago, where Siwiak’s artworks were on display, during: 2016-2018. LIVE Interview with Karolina Maria Siwiak. Being a Special Guest in WTK TV Station, Poland, 2016. On the right: a view at the Groshek Art Gallery Chicago – Karolina Maria Siwiak talks with an owner of the Gallery, at the top- back.
Karolina Maria Siwiak is standing on the right side, after one of interviews with her in Chicago, with a reporter of Radio WPNA in The U.S.A., in the below picture.
In both television’s channels – TVP & TV POLONIA (showed to audience worldwide): “Magazyn z Ameryki” – Live Interview with the only one artist from 13 artists, who exhibited at The Polish Museum of America in Chicago, The U.S.A.- with Karolina Maria Siwiak, 2018
http://magazynzameryki.tvp.pl/39141633/magazyn-z-ameryki-wydanie-z-21092108
RADIO DEON CHICAGO -The U.S.A., LIVE Interview with Karolina Maria Siwiak, 2018
Above, a picture presents Miss Siwiak, a holder a.o.of two Master’s degrees, with the Polish Consul at The Polish Museum of America in Chicago.
https://www.monitorlocalnews.com/wystawa-sztuka-dla-serca-w-muzeum-polskim
LIVE Interview with Karolina Maria Siwiak, by “Radio Polski FM” in Chicago, The United States of America, by Jacek Zieliński,
International “Winter Blues” Show in Chicago. 2015
In the newspaper “Głos Wielkopolski” mentioned my name as one of the few artists featured in the article titled:
“Over 100 Works and the Most Prominent Names in Art.”
You can find more details in the picture above and in the link below:
https://gloswielkopolski.pl/10-aukcja-dla-domu-w-poznaniu-te-obrazy-sa-warte-krocie-licytuja-prace-sasnala-kuryluk-i-berdyszaka/ar/c1p2-28221961
Chosen Links:
Exhibition curated by the lecturer of Univeristy of Fine Arts in Poznan and organized among others by “Galeria NOVA 2022” & International Jazz Festival.
Click a below image to see the link to website of the university.
NA JAZZOWO | wystawa zbiorowa w ramach międzynarodowego XIV Poznań Old Jazz Festival
https://dziennikzwiazkowy.com/polonia/sztuka-dla-serca-juz-po-raz-dziewiaty/
Poznan City Award: “Artistic Scholarship” for the “Outstanding Achievements in Painting and Drawing, between 2009 and 2015”, Poznan City Hall, POLAND, 2015
http://naszglospoznanski.pl/nagrody-oraz-stypendia-artystyczne-i-naukowe-miasta-poznania/
Poznańscy naukowcy i artyści nagrodzeni
http://www.galeriaujezuitow.pl/2017/06/tozsamosc-blizniacza-malarstwo-karoliny.html
https://www.lepszypoznan.pl/poznan-wyroznil-artystow-14-06-2015.html
Karolina Maria Siwiak participated in 45 group and solo exhibitions. For more information click on: “CV” placed on the top of this webpage.
In the below pictures, Miss Siwiak’s artworks were presented, in the main space of an art gallery and during another group exhibition!
Karolina Maria Siwiak’s artworks at invitation of the famous The Art Gallery ROZRUCH in Poznań, presented by a curator on the main panel of the art gallery. Karolina Maria Siwiak stands left next to the curator and all her artworks are hanging on the wall in a below picture, presenting elderly people in Poznań.
Siwiak participated also in “Auction-Action” at The Gallery Kolektyw 1a and showing her artworks at The Gallery Aula of University of Fine Arts in Poznań.
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For more information and all inquiries, including CV in English and documentation, please contact via email k.m.siwiak@gmail.com
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