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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Katarzyna Kozyra
- Katarzyna Kozyra (born 1963) is a Polish video artist.
- She studied German studies at the University of Warsaw (1985–1988).
- In 1993, she also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she studied sculpture and Hochshule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.
- Kozryra received a Paszport Polityki award in 1997 as the most promising artist in Poland.
- She has exhibited internationally since 1997, at venues including Brown University and Carnegie International in the U.S. Her art was involved in a 1999 censorship incident in Poland.
- Her photo portrait of Slawomir Belina in a Warsaw exhibition in 2000 was also controversial for its alleged eroticism, as his anus was in the centre of the composition.Since 2003 Kozyra has received a DAAD grant, and has developed a new form of performance involving operatic singing.In 1999, she represented Poland in the 48th Venice Biennale where she won an honorable mention and commendation for video installation "Men’s Bathhouse".
- In September 2011 she received the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage grant.
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