Joanna Piech is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, the Graphics Department in Katowice. Master thesis in 1978. Creates graphics, linocut, painting, illustrations. Since 2000 she has been a pedagogue (a doctoral degree) at the Institute of Art in Cieszyn, Department of the Silesian University in Katowice. In 1998 awarded with a grant of the Ministry of Culture and Art. Author and painter of monumental polychrome in the Crypt of Jesus Christ, Katowice Cathedral, and in the Order of the Resurrection in Krakow, paintings in the churches of Blessed Karolina Kózka in Tychy and Mother of Church in Katowice.
Important exhibitions
1998 Gallery Soviart and Majsternia in Kiev, Ukraine
2003 Gallery Girardet House in Essen, Germany
2009 Polish Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Contemporary Art Museum of Belarus in Minsk - 2009
1987-1997 International Triennial of Woodcuts ‘’XYLON’’-Fribourg, Winterthur, Switzerland
2006 Masters of Graphic Arts in Gyor, Hungary
2008 Eurografik - Krakow- Sankt Petersburg
2008 IMPRINT - International Graphic Arts Triennial in Warsaw, Poland
2008 International Graphic Arts Biennial – Taichung, Taiwan
2009 International Print Triennial in Krakow , Poland
2010 International Print Triennial in Oldenburg, Germany and in Vienna, Austria
2010 International Graphic Arts Biennial, Taichung, Taiwan
Awards / Honors
2003 Grand Prix Nomination, XI J. Gielniak International Graphic Arts Competition, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2009 Grand Prix, International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland
2010 Silver Medal, the 14th International Biennial Print Exhibition R.O.C. Taichung, Taiwan
