Biography
Agata Dworzak-Subocz is a Polish artist working at the intersection of computer graphics, printmaking, and photography, based in Toruń, Poland. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where she trained in graphics and serigraphy (screenprinting), and went on to earn a doctorate from the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. She teaches in the graphics department at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Her artistic practice centers on screenprinting, where she employs silk screen printing techniques to create mesmerizing works characterized by detailed, clear patterns that play with concepts of space and dimensions. Despite the many superposed layers of intricate patterning, her prints communicate an overall minimalistic impression through their monochromatic color schemes. The visual effect often evokes pixelated digital imagery -- a deliberate tension between the handmade nature of the screenprint process and the aesthetic language of computational graphics.
Dworzak-Subocz's Space series exemplifies her approach, using geometric forms and optical illusions to explore spatial perception and dimensional ambiguity. The works challenge the viewer to distinguish between surface and depth, between the flat plane of the printed paper and the implied three-dimensional spaces that her patterns generate. This investigation of the boundary between physical and virtual space reflects her dual engagement with analog printmaking techniques and digital visual culture.
Her work has received significant international recognition within the miniprint and experimental printmaking circuit. She won First Prize in digital and experimental graphics at the International Contemporary Miniprint Kazanlak in Bulgaria in 2021, and First Prize at the International Digital Miniprint Exhibition in Ottawa, Canada, in 2022. In 2023 she received an Awagami Factory Prize at the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition in Tokushima, Japan, for a work from her Space series. Her prints are carried by Galleri Heike Arndt DK in Berlin, where they are available through the gallery and its online shop.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇵🇱Poland
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Agata Dworzak-Subocz is a Polish artist working at the intersection of computer graphics, printmaking, and photography, based in Toruń, Poland. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where she trained in graphics and serigraphy (screenprinting), and went on to earn a doctorate from the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. She teaches in the graphics department at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Agata Dworzak-Subocz's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Agata Dworzak-Subocz's prints frequently feature abstract, geometric.
