JULIA CURYLO was born in Warsaw.She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and got her MFA in 2009 (class of Leon Tarasewicz). She is an author of paintings and installations presented in public city space. In January of 2010 she won the competition organized by the Gallery A19 operating at the Marymont metro station in Warsaw. Her big-format mural Lambs of God that was presented there brought her publicity.

In November of the same year Curyło received a Grand Prix from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as well as the award of bwa Municipal Gallery in Bydgoszcz during the PROMOTIONS 2010 in the Gallery of Art in Legnica. In May of 2011 she was nominated for a prestigious award of the 10th edition of Geppert Competition. The same year three individual exhibitions of her works took place: “Church Fairs and Miraculous Visions” in the Art Gallery in Toruń, “Magical Reality” in Gallery of Art in Legnica and “Church Fairs and Miraculous Visions” in Strefa A Gallery and Szara Gallery in Cracow. Subsequent years brought many others exhibitions and presentations of Curyło’s art, including her objects displayed in city space, including Warsaw, Poznań (festival No Women No Art) and Bydgoszcz. In 2012 Julia Curyło was listed amongst the first fifteen in a ranking of the most important young artists — the Compass of Young Art. The same year she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage designated for a production of series of pneumatic sculptures”Chicks”. Subsequent years brought more shows, as well as public projects in Warsaw and Poznan (Poland), and in 2014 her works were first presented in the US by ART 3 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Julia Curylo creates paintings, sculptures, and installations, many designed as public space projects, with intertwined references to religion (Church Fairs and Miraculous Visions series), conspicuous consumption, sex, women’s art history (Chicks series), science and technology (Large Hadron Collider series), and kitsch. 

The paintings by Julia Curyło, brimming with symbolism, hyper-realistic and surreal at the same time, addresses the issues of broadly understood contemporaneity and modernity. Curyło is interested in the ambiguity of the world — devotion juxtaposed next to perversity, childishness to maturity, morality to licentiousness, truth to falsity, or beauty next to kitsch. The origins of her work can be found mainly in surrealism and neo-pop. Julia Curyło’s art is oriented toward intellectual reception — symbolism used by the artist is difficult to decipher during the initial encounter, it encourages contemplation and decipherment of riddles and hidden meanings, which are often full of irony and eventually prompt a smile. Her paintings can be found in private collections and galleries across the whole Poland and world.

EDUCATION
2009 MFA in painting with an annex in art in public space, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 2015 Miraculous stories, Zamek Gallery, Reszel, Poland2014Euroaraba/Matrioshkas(Curylo/Sherzai), Fass Gallery , Istambul, Turkey

2013 Hello, Modernity!, BWA Municipal Gallery Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PolandGod Particle, 8-14 TeV, BWA Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz, PolandTemptations, Marvels and Delights, Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland

2012 H0 Particle, aTAK Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2011 Church Fairs and Miraculous Visions, Szara Gallery, Krakow, PolandChurch Fairs and Miraculous Visions, Strefa A Gallery, Krakow, PolandMagical Reality, Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland Church Fairs and Miraculous Visions, Wozownia Gallery, Torun, Poland

2010 Chicks, an outdoor installation, Leszek Bialy Square, Bydgoszcz, Poland Tulips, an outdoor installation, Hoover Square and the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland Tulips, an outdoor installation, No Women No Art festival, Poznan, Poland Chicks, Center subway station, Warsaw, Poland Lambs of God, Pociag do Sztuki Gallery at the Marymont subway station, Warsaw, Poland

2009 Julia Curylo, individual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 „Apollo 11”, Galeria Działań”, Warsaw , Poland, “Zapisy Przemian”, Płocka Gallery, Płock, Poland

2014 Ostrale 2014, Dresden, Germany ,Www.biala.art,Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland ,Inaugural Exhibition, Art 3 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ,Bushwick Open Studios, ART 3 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ,Strange Stories, Stalowa Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2013 Derealism, Miejska Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland ,Animal Symbol, Inspiration or Pretext, Museum of Hunting and Horsemanship, Warsaw, Poland

2012 Compass of Art, 1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland ,Art Versus Sacrum, Gardzienice Gallery, Lublin, Poland ,The Inherency of Painting, Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland ,Art in Public Space Studio Review, Dzia a Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2011 10th Geppert Competition Exhibition, BWA Wroclaw Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

2010 PROMOTIONS 2010 - the 20th National Young Painting Competition, Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland

2009 Christmas Palm, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany 1500 m do wynajecia Gallery, Warsaw, Poland ,Salon Akademii Gallery (at the Academy of Fine Arts), Warsaw, Poland ,Hoover Square Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2008 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2012 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage grant for a production of series of works Chicks, Warsaw, Poland
2011 Nomination for the 10th Geppert Competition, Wrocław, Poland
2010 Grand Prix at the Promotions 2010 painting competition organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (and also a special award of the BWA Municipal Gallery in Bydgoszcz), Promotions 2010, Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland 2010, First Prize in 6th 19A Gallery Competition for a mural at the Marymont subway station – station no. 19A - in
Warsaw, organized by Pociąg do Sztuki Gallery, Warsaw, Poland