Emilia GąSienica-Setlak

Polish paintress & graphic artist. In the year 2011 she graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the Painting Studios of Professor Teresa Kotkowska-Rzepecka and Professor Leszek Misiak. She has also a university degree in graphic art in the Woodcut Studio of Professor Bogdan Miga. The most important issues of her artistic interests are dynamic colour, brief composition and their synthetic relations to the surroundings. Her works have been used as cover motives for books: „Evil Spirit” („Scriptum” Publishing House, 2005) by the Bulgarian absurdist fiction writer Svetoslav Minkov, „Aquatic names of the Vistula basin” (Polish Academy of Science, 2013) by Doctor Urszula Bijak and has appeared on the cover of the „Women In Art 278 Magazine”, 2014. Her paintings participated also in the filming of Spanish-American movie „Embers”, directed by Claire Carre, 2015. She exhibits in Poland, Spain, Italy, United States, Japan, Great Britain, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria and Hungary. An author of twenty solo exhibitions and participant of over sixty group exhibitions and art fairs. Her works are located in Polish and Hungarian art museums and private collections in Europe and United States.

- Faculty of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (2011)
- Furniture Design at the Complex of Art High Schools in Zakopane (2005).

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2015
„Donkey Art Prize III”, MOSTRAMI FOLLI50 SPACE-Milan,
VIOPHILIA Gallery-Miami, 3331 CHIYODA ART CENTRE-Tokyo,
Gallery 76 at DUBAI INTERNATIONAL ART CENTER
„Small Wonders”, ATOMIC CAFE Gallery, Detroit
„Soma Space”, ETHER Gallery, Warszawa
„Some Like It Hot”, CITY OF ART Gallery, Krakow
„Painting”, CASTLE Gallery, Sucha Beskidzka
„6x6x2015”, ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, Rochester

2014
„Museo de la imaginación”, ARTÁGORA Gallery, Sevilla
„April International Art Show”, KAZI30 Gallery, Budapest
„3rd International Mail Art Exhibition”, MALOM Gallery, Nyíracsád
„Woo”, 33 GALLERY, Ostrow Wielkopolski
„S-Expression”, CULTURE MAGAZINE Foundation, Krakow
5th International Painting Competition, LESSEDRA Gallery, Sofia

2013
„Master and Disciples”, CENTRUM Gallery, Krakow
„Hunger of the Colors”, ENIGMA Gallery, Przemysl
„The Next Thing”, DWOR KARWACJANOW Gallery, Gorlice

2012
„I will do it my way”, CSW SOLVAY, Krakow
„Interim Form”, LAMELLI Gallery, Krakow
WPA4 Art Festival, Duszniki-Zdroj
„Wayfaring”, PANORAMA Gallery, Tomaszowice
„Artifacts”, AGH Professor Club, Krakow
„City of Stars” Art Festival, Zyrardow

2011
„Abstract”, ZADRA Gallery, Warsaw
„Art of Women”, CZAJKA...