Iwona Bugajska-Bigos was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland, where she lives and works. She graduated from the Faculty of Art at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn and from the Department of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the field of painting and artistic textile. She received a PhD degree in Plastic Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She works with artistic textiles, painting and enamels. She is an academic teacher at the State Higher Vocational School in Nowy Sącz.