Ewelina Skowronska

STATEMENT

“My work is on the edge of figuration and abstraction. I use printmaking, drawings, ceramics, and recently video animation as ways to express my subject matters. By exploring the fundamentals of color, form, lines, and negative space, I focus on ephemeral and unspoken aspects, using a combination of different mediums to produce a unique and powerful contrast. When I explore the interplay between nudity and carnality, I create images on the edge of the figurative and abstract. As a woman who has lived in many different countries, I always keep in mind that on the one side, the body is deeply engrained with meanings and constraints, but on the other hand, as human beings, we have our own experiences of living within; we see the world from the inside and the outside at the same time.” - Ewelina Skowronska

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021, Voices from the inside, THE KNOT TOKYO Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

2020, Time will tell, Tetoka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2020, Fragments of Beauty, MINA-TO Gallery, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan

2019, Shapes of Being, Sztuka Wyboru, Gdańsk, Poland

2018, Inner Moments, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017, The Latest Edition, Lindel Hall Studio, UK

2017, Lasting Impressions, Scarborough Art Gallery, UK

2017, flower, non flower, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016, Pushing Boundaries, Farmleigh Gallery and Dunamaise Arts Center, Ireland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023, Apeiron, Tappan, Los Angeles, CA

2021, Skin in the game, Gallery HZ, Hong Kong

2021, Inner Strength. The women of Poland and Japan, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland

2019, Bend, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo

2019, Acts of Sensations, ZeroBase, Tokyo, Japan

2018, BEND, Parallel Space, Edmonton, Canada

2018, POLKI – Hidden Power, Museum of Texas Tech University

2018, 157th Annual Exhibition Society of Women Artist, Mall Gallery, London

2018, Inner Strength. Women in Poland and Japan, Spiral, Tokyo

2018, POLKI – Hidden Power, San Francisco Design Week

AWARDS/GRANTS

Banff Centre Fellowship Grant

Shortlisted for Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018

Women’s Studio Workshop Fellowship

Print Prize by ST Bridge Foundation

Shortlisted for RA Summer Show

Shortlisted for World Illustration, Award 2017, AOI London

RESIDENCIES

Art Village Shirakino, Nagasaki, Japan

Banff Center; Canada

Kala Art Institute, US; WSW NY, USA

COLLECTIONS

Spiral Wacoal Art Foundation, Japan

Guanlan Printmaking Museum, China

V&A Museum, London, UK

Kala Art Institute, California, USA

EDUCATION

2015, MA Visual Arts, Camberwell College of Arts London, Master’s Degree with Distinction

2004, MA Social Science, University of Wrocław, Poland, Master’s Degree with Distinction