Alicja Habisiak-Matczak was born in Piotrków Trybunalski in 1978. During her studies at the Department of Graphics and Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź she got a grant to study photography at the University of Wolverhampton in Great Britain. She got a diploma with distinction in the Studio of Intaglio Techniques headed by Professor Krzysztof Wawrzyniak (2002), between 2003 and 2004 she got a grant from the Ministry of Culture and the Italian Government and she took up a postgraduate course in graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, Italy.

At present she is an assistant professor in the Studio of Composition Rudiments headed by Danuta Wieczorek (Ph.D. ) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.

She regularly improves her didactic and workshop skills as an assistant during the Summer International Courses of Graphics KAUS in Urbino. Since 2001 she has been a member of Stowarzyszenie Twórców Koncept (The Association of Creators Concept), where she is active organizing exhibitions, plein airs, workshops.

In 2007 she was the finalist of the Grant Program under the auspices of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage ‘Young Poland’ for outstanding Polish artists of the young generation

Alicja Habisiak-Matczak
e-mail: alihabis@wp.pl
http://www.icondata.triennial.cracow.pl/alicja_habisiak