Natalia CIAK (b. 1987), Untitled, 2023

mixed technique (oil pastels, acrylic paints), gray paper, 130 x 100 cm, signed l.d.: NCIAK 2023

Born in 1987 in Warsaw, Poland. Graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She completed her Master of Fine Arts degree with rector's distinction in 2020 in the printmaking and design studio of Prof. Piotr Smolnicki, in the book and illustration studio under Prof. Blazej Ostoi-Lniski and in the drawing studio of Prof. Jacek Staszewski.
With her master's thesis entitled. "Non-place", she won the competition for the Prof. Karol Stryjeński Award for the best diploma in 2020 in the field of artistic graphics and received the Special Award of the Rector of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow at the XII Student Graphics Biennale in Poznan. In 2022, she won the opportunity to have her work published in the Human Body is Art Album and received an honorable mention for best portrait in the Prize Summer competition organized by the Bruxelles Art Vue Foundation. In the same year, her exhibition of drawings was held at the Chapel Gallery in Warsaw, titled. "Working Nudes Alone," and in 2023 she took part in the exhibition "Faces of Drawing" on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the same 2023, her drawing works, together with the works of two female artists, were included in the "Permeations" exhibition at the Hermitage in the Royal Baths Park in Warsaw.