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Jolanta Owidzka

Jolanta Owidzka (born in 1927 in Radom, died in 2020 in Warsaw) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and the Department of Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1945 to 1950. She graduated in 1952 in the textile studio under Professor Eleonora Plutyńska. From 1952 to 1957, she worked at the Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw.

Owidzka was one of the most distinguished Polish artists specializing in artistic textiles. In 1962, she participated in a Polish artists' exhibition at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, which contributed to the global popularization of Polish textile art. The artist also conducted pedagogical work in her studio in Warsaw and at educational centers and universities in the United States, the Netherlands, Israel, and Japan. She participated in prestigious international exhibitions and created fifty monumental textiles for public buildings. Her works are held in museums in Poland and Europe, as well as in the United States, Cuba, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Canada, Lebanon, and in private collections.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2024 Jolanta Owidzka. Nie ważyłabym się chodzić po dziele sztuki, Arton Foundation, Warsaw

2019 Jolanta Owidzka. Textiles old and new, DAP 1 Gallery, Warsaw

2016  Retrospective, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
2013 Tkanina, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
2007  Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź
Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw
2002  Jolanta Owidzka - Small Textile Forms, Vacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
1998  Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
1998  Przerwana Przestrzeń. Tkanina, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw
1977  Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź
1971  Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź
1962  Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź
1960  Zachęta, Warsaw

Selected group exhibitions:
2024/25 Collection Focus: Polish Fiber, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA

2023  Grantha, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw

2023 Tak pracuje, tkanina, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź

2017/18 Bunt materii, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź
2004  XI International Triennale of Textile Art, Łódź
1998  IX International Triennale of Textile Art, Łódź
Ciecierski, Gierowski, Jachtoma, Kamoji, Ługowski, Owidzka, Sienicki, Starczewski, Ruch Początkowy, Stefan Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
1988  VI International Triennale of Textile Art, Łódź
1981  IV International Triennale of Textile Art, Łódź
1978  III International Triennale of Textile Art, Łódź
1975  II International Triennale of Textile Art, Łódź
1972  I International Triennale of Textile Art, Łódź
1971  Biennale of Textile Art, Lausanne
1968-1969  Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965  Biennale of Textile Art, Lausanne
8th São Paulo International Biennale, São Paulo
1962  Biennale of Textile Art, Lausanne
1960  XII Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

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