Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, signed pdr MZ Maćkowiak, 2021
She was born in 1958. She lives in Cracow. She studied in the studio of prof. Jan. Szancenbach at the Faculty of Painting of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. Graduated with honorable mention. she is a two-time scholarship holder of the MKIDN also in 2020. Works in monumental painting as well as painting, sculpture and film animation. She is the author of illustrations for best-selling books of poetry by Ewa Stadtmuller.
As a painter and illustrator, she has participated in more than 100 group exhibitions in Poland, Japan, Switzerland, Germany , Austria, France , Slovenia, Ukraine, USA and UK and Hungary.
She participated in exhibitions organized by ZPAP,. as well as in dozens of post-exhibitions throughout Greece, Poland , Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and Hungary. She has implemented more than a dozen art projects in park spaces in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as in Kyiv Ukraine .
Artist in residence in 2008 - international art project Meeting In Zdonov. In 2012 she represented Poland in the international project Artcamp 2012 in Toyama, Japan and 2015 Artist-in-Residence Japan Takaoka and Artist-in-Residence in Egon Schelle Center.
She has prepared more than a dozen individual exhibitions in Poland and Ukraine; including in Krakow, Warsaw, several times in Kyiv Ukraine , Kazimierz on the Vistula River, Kielce, Katowice, Nowa Sol, Zakopane, Rybnik and London (UK).
She presented her sculptures -puppets and artistic sculptures at group exhibitions in Lodz in 2005 , 2015 in Warsaw, BWA Skierniewice and BWA in Kielce. In the City Museum in Czestochowa and in 2020 in the Gallery of the City Library in Gliwice and in 2016 during the International Festival of Puppet Theaters at BWA in Bielsko Biala.
Works in private collections at home and abroad.
