Szuba Agata
In 2009 she graduated from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, majoring in Artistic Education in the field of Visual Arts, and in 2013 from the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, majoring in Media Art (specialisation: Photography), thesis supervisor Prof. Andrzej P. Bator. In 2017, she received her PhD, and in 2020 she was conferred the degree of habilitated doctor in film arts, at the Faculty of Cinematography and Television Production of the L. Schiller State Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź.
For me, practicing art, both in my private and professional life, is a form of a sophisticated realisation of the cognitive-critical process which requires constant creation - exploration of adequate formal solutions serving an effective articulation of an artistic message. In this sense, I understand and perceive art as the highest degree of self-identification and a way of recognising my presence in the world (the recipients of my artistic messages are left with unlimited room for their concretisation and interpretation).
Awards and scholarships
Second award, Playground, This is my era, The Donut Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Artistic scholarship of the President of Olsztyn
Exhibitions
2019 – Femine Flash Collection vol 3, individual exhibition, Museum of Photography, Görlitz, Germany
2019 – NIE!/NO!/NEIN!/NON!, individual exhibition, FASS Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 – Catalogue of Ceremonial Activities, individual exhibition, FF Gallery, Łódź
2018 – Snap to Grid, group exhibition, Los Angeles Centre of Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2018 – Polemical Gestures, individual exhibition, Foto-Gen Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
Conferences
Batumi Photo-Days, Contemporary Art Space Batumi, Georgia
Conferences of the Scientific Society of Photography, University of Arts in Poznań
Broncolor Seminar, Studio NM / Dicam lighting seminars
Publications
2017 – Art as a spectacle. Reflections on media communication [in:] Scientific and Artistic Journal Discourse no. 23, Academy of Art and Design Wrocław
2017 – #tropy#feminizm [in:] Scientific and Artistic Journal Discourse no. 25, Academy of Art and Design Wrocław
2017 – Performative alter ego [in:] Scientific and Artistic Journal Discourse no. 26, Academy of Art and Design Wrocław
2017 – Fe-Male performance [in:] Scientific and Artistic Journal Discourse no. 27, Academy of Art and Design Wrocław
2017 – Eleven Parts of Photozona in 2017, a curator's text in the catalogue for the PhotoZona Gallery, Centre for Culture and Art, Wrocław
2017 – Never-ending story… Agata Szuba's Photoinstallations [in:] Format Art Magazine, 76-77, Wrocław