Artist Biography / Artist Statement
Author of artistic installations and drawings, graphic artist, scenographer. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Interested in the theme of passing time and the space of memory. Abstraction is her favourite language of artistic expression. She is inspired by nature, micro-worlds, and elements of the universe. Creates collages of old photographs, paintings, and digital graphics.

She has prepared over a dozen solo exhibitions and participated in over 140 exhibitions. Her works are held in collections in Canada, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Spain, and Poland.

Awards:

• Lorenzo il Magnifico – IV Award, XIV Florence Biennale, Italy, 2023

• Golden Osten Award, Osten Biennial of Drawing, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2022

• Special Award, Osten Biennial of Drawing, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2020

• Grand Prix Graphic of the Year, Krakow, Poland, 2021

List of previous exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

1. Mile Stones. Memory Stones. Drawings, Strefa Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, 2023

2. Monika Wanyura-Kurosad. Memory Stones, Osten Gallery, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2022

3. Drawings: Mile Stones. Memory Stones, Pixel Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland, 2021

4. Blade of Time, Museum of Ancient Masovian Metallurgy in Pruszków, Poland, 2019

5. Mile Stones. Memory Stones, Gallery EL, Elbląg, Poland, 2019

6. Paul Celan. Fragments of a Dream, BWA Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland, 2018

7. Verges. Graphic Art, Installation, 4 Ściany Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, 2017

8. Transparency. Drawings Inspired by Miłosz, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków, Poland, 2017

9. Paul Celan. Fragments of a Dream, Municipal Gallery in Częstochowa, Poland, 2017

10. Seamus Heaney. Gravel Paths, Drawing and Art of Book, Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, Poland, 2015

11. Overheard Horizon of Tomas Tranströmer, Main Library, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, 2013

12. Verges, Solvay Center of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland, 2012

Group Exhibitions:

1. Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2024, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Skopje, 2025

2. 11th International Print Triennial: Colour in Graphic Art – Traces, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland, 2024

3. Open Call, Common Space – LAB, 8th International Biennial of Interior Design, Kraków, Poland, 2024

4. Pathfinders, Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, 2024

5. XIV Florence Biennale, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Design, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy, 2023

6. Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2022, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Skopje, 2023

7. 3rd Krakow Art Meeting – TERRITORY: Paper Emotions, Palace of Art, Kraków, Poland, 2022

8. Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2020, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Skopje, 2020

9. 4th International Printmaking Triennial, Virtual Online Exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia, 2020

10. International Print Award Carmen Arozena, Spain, 2018

11. Multiplicity in Unity: Offset, Digital Techniques and Intermedia Activities in Polish Graphics, L. Wyczółkowski District Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2018

12. BIMPE VIII, Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2014