Paulina LITWIN

– born in 1989 in Lublin – the largest city in eastern Poland, where she also grew up and lived until November 2018. Currently living and working in Montreuil next to Paris. 2002 – 2008 six-year elite public art school student – the C. K. Norwid General School of Fine Arts in Lublin – where in 2008 she obtained a diploma with a specialization in Visual Publications Design. 2008 – 2012 a student of the College of Fine Arts in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula river. She defended her first degree diploma in 2012 under the supervision of dr hab. Mariusz Drzewiński, with whom she worked until the end of higher education. 2012 – 2014 a student of the Art Faculty at the Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin. In 2015, she received a master’s degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in «easel painting» with distinction. In January 2016, the artist was nominated for the holder of scholarship of the Mayor of Lublin for her original painting project «Gorzkie Żale», which she carried out under his patronage in the same year. Until 2018, the artist associated mainly with Lublin, contributing to the development and animation of the culture of her hometown, being the initiator, co-organizer or taking part in many cultural events organized as part of cyclical events. Already as a high school student and then an university student, she cooperated with the most important artistic organizations in Lublin, which have a great importance on the map of Poland. Litwin collaborated with many commercial and non–commercial art galleries, as well as auction houses with pan-European coverage. Her works are in private collections in Poland and other countries (France, Belgium, Belarus, Japan). Both during and after her studies, the artist expands in various artistic fields like singing, acting and performance. Her main interest remains painting.