Ewa Kuryluk (b. 1946), Untitled (Masks), 1968

oil, canvas, 60 x 108 cm, signed on rafter: "EWA KURYLUK"



Painter, art historian, illustrator, author of art installations, essayist, writer. She was born in 1946 in Cracow as the daughter of the diplomat Karol Kuryluk. After her father took up a Polish diplomatic post in Austria, she studied at a secondary school in Vienna.
From 1964 to 1970 she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She was among the initiators of the "For Improvement" movement, bringing together her peers, graduates of the academy, which first came to prominence with an exhibition at Warsaw's Studio Gallery in 1974.
also a co-founder of the Smietanka group, whose first appearance was in 1977. At that time she exhibited together with Andrzej Bielawski and Lukasz Korolkiewicz. In 1981 she moved to New York. In 1982 she co-founded the quarterly magazine "Zeszyty Literackie" in the US, which found its headquarters in Paris a year later. She is also a graduate of art history at Jagiellonian University. Ewa Kuryluk has had more than fifty solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. She has created outdoor installations in various parts of the world. Her works are in national museums in: Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan, as well as in institutional and private collections in Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan.