Alexandra Zuba-Benn, From afar, 2019

Work signed on the back
Dimensions: 120 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas, 2019

Aleksandra Zuba-Benn
Graduate of the State Higher School of Fine Arts (now the University of Arts) in Poznan, graduating in the tapestry studio of Prof. Magdalena Abakanowicz (1986). She received a doctorate from the Faculty of Art at the Pedagogical University in Cracow (2010) and a postdoctoral degree from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw ( 2024). Professor at the Faculty of Art at the Tarnów Academy of Art. She is a member of ZPAP and the Association of Tarnów Artists. She has presented her works in 45 individual exhibitions in, among others: Poznan, Tarnow, Krakow, Bytom, Lublin, Warsaw, Kielce, Kaysersberg (France), Goedereede (Holland), and more than 150 group exhibitions in: Poland, France, Ireland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, Belgium, Sweden, Holland, Italy. Winner of awards: Agnieszka Sienkiewicz Award. Agnieszka Sienkiewicz at the XXIV International Post-Plenary Exhibition- Kowary 97 (1998), President of the City of Tarnów (2001, 2004, 2010), Director of the Department of Culture of the City of Tarnów (2005), Special Award of the President of the City of Tarnów at the International Triennial of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Quadrilateral" - BWA Przemyśl (2006), Director of BWA inTarnów, Board of Directors of ZPAP OT (2013), 2nd Prize of the Winter Salon of ZPAP Tarnów District (2015), Special Prize of BWA Rzeszów at the International Triennial of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Quadrilateral"- BWA Przemyśl (2018). He works in painting, unique textiles, paper art and artistic wicker. She lives and works in Tarnow.