Agata Derda

Agata Derda was born in Poland in the 80s as a second of four siblings in a working class family. She started her art education as a child in a local youth centre and continued up to 19 years of age in High School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. A Few years after finishing high school, Derda immigrated to Ireland where she undertook BFA in Printmaking in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Derda moved to Edmonton, Canada in 2011 to start MFA at the University of Alberta. She has shown her work in several solo shows in Canada and national and international group shows (China, the United States and Europe). Currently lives and works exclusively on her art practice in Toronto.
In 2018 Derda was awarded Special Award of the Rector of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin at the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland and Nick Novak Fellowship from Open Studio Artists Run Center for Printmakers in Toronto.
Derda’s artistic interest in the dark side of human condition relates to her experience growing in a country damaged by a difficult history, especially the World War II and Communism.

Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking
University of Alberta,
Canada / September 2011 - November 2013

Solo / Duo Exhibitions
2020
Post Fellowship Solo Show, Details TBD, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

2019
Fractured Beings: An Internal and Collective
Look at Humankind with Grace Sippy, Cedar Ridge Creative Centre Gallery, Toronto, ON,
Canada

DARK ROADS
Show + Visiting Artist Lecture, One on One Gallery,
Medicine Hat College, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada

DARK ROADS
Byward Campus Gallery Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2017
NOW WE LOSE
Show + Visiting Artist Lecture, School of the Arts, McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON, Canada

2013
CREATURE OF CLIMAX
Exhibition for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking, FAB
Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

2011
HOMO APPARATUS
Solo Show sponsored by Lorg Printmakers as part of Bursary Award,
Lorg Printmakers, Galway, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibition Participation

2019
5th Bangkok International Print Triennale - Silparkorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand

Megalo International Print Prize - Megalo Print Gallery,
Canberra - Kingston, Australia

2018
Pushing The Pull, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA

Intersecting Boundaries at the Festival dell”Arte
The Valley of Palaces and Gardens, Jelenia Góra, Poland

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