Agnieszka LECH-BIÑCZYCKA (b. 1984), Body of Matter VIII, 2018

corundum chip, aquatint, Hahnemuhle 300g paper, 21/30, 100 x 70 cm, signed p.d.: ALBińczycka, 2018. + dry-erase

Born in 1984. Graduated from the Faculty of Art at the University of Rzeszow, majoring in Art Education in Fine Arts, specializing in printmaking (intaglio). Diploma with distinction in 2008 in the studio of Prof. Włodzimierz Kotkowski. Scholarship holder of the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation (2008). In 2011 she completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (studio of Prof. Henryk Ożog). Since 2012, she has been employed as an assistant professor in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Faculty of Art of the University of Rzeszow, and since 2020 as a professor at the UR Institute of Fine Arts, where she lectures on the history of graphic arts and teaches in the intaglio print studio. She has participated in more than 150 national and international exhibitions at home and abroad.

Awards, honors:

2022 - Distinction in the 5th International Guadalupe Posada Print Contest, Museo José Guadalupe Posada/Mexico; Award in the International Graphic and Artistic Book Competition - GraficaRi, Croatia, 2020 - Third Prize in the 5th International Ex Libris Exhibition Skopje 2020, Macedonia; Award of the Mayor of the City of Rzeszow, Image, Graphic, Sculpture, Drawing of the Year 2019-2020, BWA Rzeszow; 2019 - Distinction in the 2nd National Graphic Art Competition Grafiteka 2019, Warsaw; 2018 - Third Prize in the 2018 Picture, Graphic, Sculpture, Drawing of the Year competition, BWA Rzeszów; 2010 - Distinction in the competition Towards the Old Masters, Cabinet of Engravings of the University of Warsaw Library; 2010 - Third Prize in the Young Art Review, Podkarpackie Art Festival, Rzeszów; 2009 - Distinction of the Chairman of the Jury in the 2nd All-Polish Borders of Drawing Triennial, Rzeszów.


Participation in group exhibitions (selection):
2022 - 7th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Romania; Ja-Ona, Ja-On, Miejska Galeria Sztuki MM, Chorzowskie Centrum Kultury, Chorzów/Poland; 5th International "Guadalupe Posada" Print Contest, Museo José Guadalupe Posada/Mexico; 1st International GCB-MiniPrint 2022, Graphik-Collegium Berlin/Germany; 13th International Exlibris Competition, Gliwice-Cieszyn/Poland; IPC International Mini Print/Taiwan; 8th Bienal Internacional de Grabado Aguafuerte, Valladolid/Spain; International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 R.O.C, Taichung/Taiwan; The Fifth International Biennial of Printmaking, Čačak /Serbia; International exhibition of prints and artist's books in Rijeka - GraficaRi, Rijeka/ Croatia
2021 - 10th International Graphic Triennial - Bitola 2021, North Macedonia; 21st International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria; Aerowalk, exhibition within the framework of the 11th Polish Print Triennial, Art-React Foundation, Krakow Technology Park, Krakow; Second International mini print Triennial "Intaglio", Kyiv/Ukraine; Third International Print Biennial, Yerevan 2021, Armenia; International Print Triennial in Cieszyn, Poland
2020 - 5th International Ex Libris Exhibition Skopje 2020, Macedonia; Maxi Print Berlin 2020, Berlin/Germany; The International Biennial of Miniature Art - Timisoara 2020, Romania; VI Edition Biennale di Grafica Contemporanea Premio Diego Donati, Perugia/Italy; 17th International Triennial of Small Forms of Prints, Poland-Lodz; 6th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Romania; VII Bienal Internacional de Grabado Aguafuerte 2020, Spain;
2019 - Bucharest International Print Biennale 2019, Romania; Maxi Print Berlin 2019, Berlin, Germany; 2nd National Graphic Art Competition Grafiteka 2019, Warsaw, Poland; Second International Print Biennale Yerevan 2019, Armenia; 20th International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria; 7th Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China.
2018 - 10th Polish Print Triennial, Katowice 2018; 4th International Biennial of Nude Marko Gregović, Montenegro, Montenegro; Ex libris Competition Varna 2018, Bulgaria; International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2014 - 10 years have passed... Best Diploma 2004-2014, International Center for Graphic Arts in Krakow; Graphics is a Woman. Polish graphics of the 20th and 21st centuries, MCSG in Krakow; XV International Biennale of Small Graphic Forms and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski
2013 - International Print Triennial Krakow - Istanbul, Turkey; The 17th International Print Biennial - Varna 2013, "Boris Georgiev", Bulgaria;
2012 - 8th Polish Print Triennial, Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA, Katowice, Poland; 7th International Print Triennial - Bitola 2012, Republic of Macedonia
2011 - Agnieszka Lech-Bińczycka. Graphics, Lamelli Gallery, Cracow; Touch, Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw.
2010 - Towards the Old Masters..., Gabinet of Prints of the Warsaw University Library, Warsaw; International Triennial of Graphics, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg; Druckfrisch. Graphics of young Polish and Austrian artists, Vienna;
2009 - 6th National Student Graphics Biennial, Arsenal City Gallery, Poznan; 7th Polish Graphics Triennial, Katowice; Grand Prix of Young Polish Graphics - Krakow 2009, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow.
2008 - Kulisiewicz and His Scholars, Galeria Przy Van Gogha, Warsaw, Poland.