Aleksandra Toborowicz

Dr hab. Aleksandra Toborowicz is a visual artist working in the media of painting, drawing, installation, murals, typography and graphic design.

Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland. Professor and Head of the Lettering and Typography Studio.

Aleksandra's art is abstract, expressionistic, surreal and spontaneous. She paints usually using papers, acrylic and pastel. Her works are a combination of painting and drawing.

Winner of national and international awards in competitions: the European Design Awards, Communication Arts, A' Design Award and Competition, Hiii Typography, 50 Books | 50 Covers – Design Observer and AIGA, The Most Beautiful Books of the Year – PTWK, the Trnava Triennial, Transvizualia, the 2+3D Magazine Review of Best Graduation Works for her website Virtual Museum of Erotic Art in 2009.

Scholarships received from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2015, 2020), Young Poland Scholarship (2010) founded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2002 and from the Mayor of the City of Czestochowa in 2002.

Winner of the National Education Committee Medal, Poland (2015) and...

2024 – dr hab. Post-doctoral degree in Fine Arts awarded by the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow / Poland
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2015 – Doctor of Arts, PhD degree in Fine Arts awarded by the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow / Poland
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2003–2008: Master of Arts / Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Cracow / Poland
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2006, Lahti University of Applied Sciences, scholarship, Lahti / Finland
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1998–2003 Jacek Malczewski Secondary Art School in Czestochowa/Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:

October 2022 – Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, United Arab Emirates

January 2017 – "Sentimental Exhibition", Bal, Cracow, POLAND

September 2016 – January 2017, Ren Art Gallery, Istanbul, TURKEY
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April – June 2016, "Manifestation of Dot" – lettering, multidimensional and interactive installation "Typo Noise", 7 th Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, SHARJAH / UAE
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November 2015, Red Gallery, Centrum Sztuki Mościce, TARNOW, POLAND
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February 2015, Exhibit Online, Communication Arts, USA
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May 2014, Centrum Gallery, Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury in Cracow, CRACOW / POLAND
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July 2013, Galeria Elektor, Mazowieckie Centrum Kultury i Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
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January 2013 – Gallery Palace Vauxhall, Krzeszowice, Poland
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2011, typograhic installation „Typo Noise”, Onamato Gallery, CRACOW / POLAND


MIXED EXHIBITIONS:

October 2022 – Tashkent, Uzbekistan

October 2018 – "Młoda Akademia", Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury, Kraków, Poland

January – April 2017, "Motion", Gruning Gallery, Kraków, POLAND
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September – October 2016, Beijing Design Week 2016, Beijing, CHINA
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2015, "The Physical Exhibition of Design at the Museum of Outstanding Design", COMO / ITALY
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2015, "Opened. Sketches of the A...