Elżbieta Kuźniar- graduated painting diploma with distinction from the Institute of Art in Kraków (2004). Doctoral degree - PhD in Fine Arts (2017), engaged in biology, geology, art. Participated in about 150 art exhibitions – Italy, USA, GB, Holland, Germany, Portugal,Poland, Ukrain, France, Hungary, Belgium, Slovakia. Works were exhibited e.g Deutches Textilmuseum, Krefeld / Tuch+Technik Textilmuseum, Neumuenster, Germany; MIAT, Gent-Belgium; White Fabric Museum-Łódź , Poland; Musee des Beaux –Arts, Tournai, Belgium. Works in museums institutiones as well as in private collections. Musee des Beaux – Arts de Tournai, Tournai, Belgium/ Association Histoires de Boites a Couture, France;/S.A.C.S., Quiliano, Italy;/ Craft Museum, Krosno, Poland;Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland;/ IFC, Department of Art & Art History, Alabama, USA;/ Fiber Art Jersey Girl, New Jersey, USA,/ The textile-collection of the Szombathelyi Képtár mini-textiles, Hungary/ Museum of Gdynia City, Poland / Architects of Air, GB
Got several prizes - last in 2018 Contextile 2018 – Artistic residence with Ann Hamilton - 4th International Biennial Art Contemporanea, Portugal
Main exhibitions
-2004 International exhibition ,, We & they ‘’, Palace of Art, Kraków, Poland
-2005 International wicker exhibition , Łódź, Poland
-2005 Libro d’artista, book art exhibition, Quiliano (Savona), Italy
-2006 International wicker exhibition Arboretum, Bolestraszyce, Poland
-2006 IV International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial, Krosno, Poland
-2006 Textileforum Magazines, Nr 2/2007, publication, Germany
-2007 4th International textile exhibition in Slovenske Narodne Museum w Svidniku, Slovakia
-2007 International textile exhibition in Gocsej Muzeum, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
-2007 International textile exhibition in Sarisska Galeria v Presove, Slovakia
-2008 6th Textile Triennial- Dia-logue, Tournai , Belgium
-2008 Futurenergie, international mail & digital art project, Quiliano, Italy
-2009 3rd Triennial of Textile Art, Szombathely, Hungary
-2009 Ocres Couleurs et Lumiere, Provence, France
-2009 Tree art project, textile, Department of Art & Art History, Huntsville Park, Alabama, USA
-2009 New Jersey Girls, textile project, New Jersey, USA
-2010 The Faces of Africa, mail art, Quiliano, Italy
-2010 9th Minitextile Exhibition, Central Textile Museum- White Fabric- Łódź, Poland
-2010 6th International Biennial Linen Textile, Krosno, Poland
-2012 4th Internationa Triennial of Textile Art, Szombathely, Hungary
-2012 7th International Art Quilt, Holand, England, Germany, Belgium (only Polish representation)
-2012 Immagine- international mail & digital art project, Quiliano, Italy - work became a logo of exhibition
-2012 18th International Textile Exhibition- Nadel und Faden- Infinity blue- Osnabrueck, Germany
-2012 7th Biennial Linen Textile, Krosno, Poland
-2012 7th European Art Quilts Biennial/ European Art Quilt Foundation , NEC, Birmingham, UK
-2012 14th International Mini Textile- Banality & Grace- Bratislavia, Gallery SVU, Slovakia
-2012 7th European Art Quilts- Deutches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany (only Polish representation)
-2013 7th European Art Quilts- Breda’s Museum, Breda, Nederlands
-2013 12th Polish Textile Exhibition- Central Textile Museum- White Fabric , Łódź, Poland
-2013 9th International Baltic Triennial, Gdynia, Poland
- 2013 Sods and other ods-solo exhibition- co exhibition 14th International Textile Triennial in Łódź, Poland
-2014 8th European Art Quilts- Tuch +Technik Textilmuseum, Neumuenster, Germany (only Polish representation)
-2014 Contextile 2014 -2 th Contemporary Textile Art Biennial- Portugal
- 2015 Book art- International mail art, Savona, Italy
-2015 8th European Art Quilts- MIAT Gent, Belgium
-2015 The Festival of Quilts Birmingham, UK/ Museum Twentse Welle Enschede, Netherlands
-2015 8th Euroean Art Quilts/- Tuch + Technik Textilmuseum Krefeld, Germany (only Polish representation)
-2016 VIII European Art Quilts, Gloucester City Museum, UK (only Polish representation)
-2016 18th Minitextile exhibition ,, Face to face” Bratislava, Slovakia
-2016 BLUE PLANET- Internatiol mail-art project, Savona, Italy
-2016 VII MBTL- Z krosna do Krosna, Muzeum Rzemiosła, BWA, Krosno, Poland
-2016 Why don’t you Deal with politics? - , Messier 42, Kraków, Poland
- 2017 4 th Texpoart- International Triennial Minitextil, Romania
- 2017 International Textile Exhibition – National Muzeum Andrei Scheptycki, Lwiv, Ukraine
-2017 International Symposium - 100 anniversary Avant garde. Between natural form and land art, POS, Łódź., Poland
- 2017 European Art Quilts The Grand Final – European Textile Exhibition (biennial IX)- Historisch Museum
de Bevelanden – Goes, Holandia (only Polish representation)
- 2018 Arms & legs, International exhibition, Shetland Museum, GB
2018 4th Contextile - Int. Biennial - (In)Organic - solo exhibition - Mimesis, Museum Dos Capuchos, Portugal
