Ewa Juszkiewicz
Ewa Juszkiewicz is a Polish surrealist painter. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. She is considered one of the best-known contemporary Polish artists.
Career and style
Between 2004 and 2009, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She is a member of the AAA Tanie Wizualki collective.Among the distinguishing features of the artist's works are surrealist female portraits inspired by classic 18th and 19th-century paintings. She is notable for masking the faces of the subjects of her portraits with locks of hair, bunches of flowers, shells or fabrics. By reinterpreting Flemish masterpieces Juszkiewicz seeks to redress historical failures in the artistic portrayal of women who were often relegated to being little more than anonymous objects of beauty. According to art critic Lucia Longhi, Juszkiewicz "dismantled these old paradigms that hid a woman's personality and visualized a new role for them" adding that "By deconstructing the original painting, she deconstructs the conventions behind it."
In 2013, she was awarded the Grand Prix at the Bielska Jesień Biennale organized by the Galeria BWA in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, for her two portraits: Girl in Blue and Untitled .
In 2014, she was included in the book 100 Painters of Tomorrow published by Thames & Hudson, discussing the most promising young painters in the world. In 2018, she appeared in the Kompas Młodej Sztuki ranking compiled by Rzeczpospolita in partnership with a number of galleries of contemporary art in Poland.
In 2023, her art was used as the design for a luxury handbag from fashion house Louis Vuitton as part of the artist's collaboration on the fifth edition of the brand's Artycapucines collection.