Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (born 1976) is a Polish visual artist, writer and

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. She lives in the UK. Dawidek came onto the Polish art scene in the early 2000s. Dawidek combines a wide range of media in her projects – textual objects and installations, painting, animation, photographs, written drawings and

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s. She is a researcher of visual literature and the author of articles, studies and books on visual texts, including ''A Piece of Poetry'' and ''History of the visual text. Poland after 1967'', which was awarded the National Centre of Culture in Poland Prize for the best PhD dissertation in the field of culture studies (2010).

Early life

Dawidek was born in 1976 in

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. She attended the

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, and earned a PhD in

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from the Institute of Art History at

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Career

Dawidek has received multiple grants including the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2002 and 2010, and the

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in 2004. In 2014 Dawidek held an Artistic Residency at The Art House, Wakefield, UK Since 2015, Dawidek has been conducting research at

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. In 2011 Dawidek exhibited ''Fold-ups'' at the Wrocław Contemporary Museum. In 2015 she exhibited her work at the Centrala Space in Birmingham. The show was called ''Conversio'', and focused on the migrant community.

Books

* ''Historia tekstu wizualnego. Polska po 1967 roku/History of Visual Text. Poland after 1967'', Ha!art, CMW, Kraków-Wrocław 2012. / 978-83-63350-04-8 * ''Odprysk poezji. Stanisław Dróżdż mówi/A Piece of Poetry. Conversations with Stanisław Dróżdż'', Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków 2012. * ''TEKST-TURA. Wokół nowych form tekstu wizualnego i tekstu jako dzieła sztuki'', ed. Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka Korporacja Ha!art,

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2005.

References

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Małgorzata Dawidek-Gryglicka
- biography and graphics of the artist: Galeria Muzalewska {{DEFAULTSORT:Gryglicka Dawidek, Malgorzata 1976 births Living people 21st-century Polish women artists 21st-century Polish artists Polish contemporary artists Polish painters Polish installation artists Academic staff of the University of Fine Arts in Poznań