Artist: EDYTA KASPERKIEWICZ
Country: POLAND
Title: Written in Braille
Size: 60 x 60 cm
Technique: artist`s own technique
Year: 2014
Biography:

Edyta Kasperkiewicz was born in Mońki, Poland in 1982 and graduated from the State High School of Visual Arts in Supraśl, Poland, in Artistic Weaving, specializing in Functional Forms in 2002. She studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland, in the Faculty of Artistic Education from 2002-2003. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń with the speciality in Mixmedia in 2010 and wrote her PhD in the Department of Fine Arts of the Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń in 2014. The exhibitions in which Edyta has participated include: the 7^th “Z krosna do Krosna” International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial held by the Museum of Crafts in Krosno; the Opening Exhibition in the Bureau for Artistic Exhibitions in Krosno in 2012. Her work has been included in several travelling exhibitions: Šarišská galéria, Prešov, Slovakia in 2013; Slovenské národné múzeum – Múzeum ukrajinskej kultúry, Svidník, Slovakia in 2013; Göcseji Múzeum, Zalaegerszeg in Hungary in 2013. Other festival exhibitions include: the “Koło czasu” Festival Performance in “Znaki Czasu” Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, Poland in 2012; 3^rd “Out of Control Production” Festival in Białystok, Poland and Węglowa, Poland in 2012; 2^nd “Nowe Ciepło” Festival of Contemporary Art in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie in 2012; the “Rysować” Polish Nationwide Exhibition of the Students’ Drawings in “Wozownia” Gallery in Toruń in 2009 and 2012; and the “Dyplomy 2010” exhibition in the “Znaki Czasu” Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, Poland in 2011 and “Galeria nad Wisłą” in Toruń in 2010.