Agata Grendowicz

Agata Grendowicz

Agata Grendowicz was born in Gdynia, Poland. During her studies at the Faculty of Architecture she mastered techniques of painting and drawing and received highest marks available in those disciplines. She completed Master course in Architecture in 2000. 

In the years 2001-2003 she worked as a set designer and curator of exhibitions in the Baltic Sea Culture Centre, Gdańsk, Poland.

Since 2004 she has been working in the field of art and interior designing and continued her biggest passion – painting. 

Her paintings are in private collections in Poland, Germany, Spain, Croatia, USA and Japan. She took part in various art exhibitions both in Poland and abroad (Italy, Kosovo, Hungary, Armenia), mainly in form of individual presentation of her art. 

Among her biggest successes is being a finalist of the contest for the IV national Triennale of Painting „Animalis” (Poland, 2017), finalist of the national art contest „Art Now” (2016) and taking part in post contest collective exhibition of modern Polish art in the National Museum in Krakow, Poland (December 2016). She also takes part in international plein-airs and art symposiums (e.g. Croatia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania).

In March 2025 she was a resident artist at VivaQi gallery in Tenerife.

 Artist statement:

Although I completed Master course in Architecture, I have never been interested in depicting cities or buildings in my art. I focus on a woman – as a central point of all my compositions, as the main theme of most of my paintings. Figures of women are sometimes unnaturally slim, unbelievebly perfect, almost unnatural. I often create very „graphic”, poster-like paintings, nearly not using any chiaroscuro. The colors are very vivid, pure, mainly from the palette of red, blue and black. 

My paintings are inspired by works of Klimt, Modigliani and Lempicka, as well as by the fashion photography, icons of world design and black & white cinema. I’m fascinated with the Mediterranean climat and culture, the light and tones of the sea and eternal beauty of human figure.

Another series of my paintings are the minimalistic landscapes  - parts of buildings in a close-up;  horizontal, very simple landscapes and rocks, which I find especially fascinating.