Urszula Wilk (b. 1959, Dzierżoniów), "XXX", 2024

Biography
In 1986 she received a diploma with distinction from the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Wroclaw, in the studio of Professor Zbigniew Karpinski. In 1987 and 1988 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Art. In 1989 she won the main prize at the first Eugeniusz Geppert Post-Competition Exhibition of Painting. In 1995 she received a scholarship from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. In the 1990s, she participated in art actions in the urban space of Wroclaw - Tower and Parachutes. In 2012, her exhibition "Lines" was held at the Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing, crowning her residency in China carried out under the scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and thanks to the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute under the "Polish Culture in the World" program. During this period, Ursula Wilk also completed a series of works on Chinese paper - Unsent Letters from Beijing, which were exhibited at the Shanguyan Art Museum in 2012, at Wrocław's Entropia Gallery in 2015, and later purchased for the DTZSP collection. In 2015, she received an award at the Shenzen International Watercolor Biennale for her work titled Comets and was purchased for the collection of the Luohu Art Museum in Shenzen.