Bakula, HannaGraduated with honors from the Warsaw Academy of Arts, where she studied under such Polish masters as: J. Tarasin, F. Fibisch, A. Kobzdej. There have been fifty exhibitions of her paintings, drawings and ceramic sculpture. Her works were shown at the Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw, at art fairs in Basel, Wiesbaden, Stockholm, New York City, Moscow. In 1981 she left for New York City where she settled in Manhattan where she drew, painted, designed stenography and costumes for the avant-garde theater "The Kitchen". These designs were praised by The New York Times as the best of the Off-Broadway projects and won Bakula first prize in 1982. By recommendation from the Guggenheim Museum she was awarded one year grant. She also is a columnist and illustrator for "Playboy" and "Dziennik Lodzki" magazines. She has written and illustrated 8 books: How to Lose Friends (1991), How to Gain Friends (1992), Owners Manual (1993), Bandana (1994), a collection of essays written for the "Playboy" magazine entitled Sex on Credit, as well as Evidence of Love (1991-92), The Last Ball, Letters to Agnieszka Osiecka (2001), She-Idiot (2003).
In 1995 she designed costumes and poster for Carmen at the Warsaw National Opera. In 1997 she has established the Hanna Bakula Foundation with the aim at propagating Polish culture abroad and foreign culture in Poland. Special attention and care the Foundation devotes to a number of orphanages in Poland. Since 1996 Hanna Bakula organizes a unique private festival of Franz Schubert music in which the most outstanding Polish and foreign soloists participate. In 1999 under the auspices of the Hanna Bakula Foundation Women's Club opened at the Mercure Hotel in Warsaw. It groups over the hundred celebrities from the political, cultural and academic life in Poland. The chief aim of the Club is to foster cooperation between women, to propagate democracy and culture created by women.
Hanna Bakula Portraying Firm made among others portraits of:
Agnieszka Osiecka, Jolanta Kwasniewska, Kora, Daniel Olbrychski, Daniel Passent, Agata Passent, Janusz Glowacki, Nina Terentiew, Monika Richardson, Agata Mlynarska, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Ewa Czeszejko-Sochacka, Jolanta Fajkowska, Grazyna Torbicka, Malgorzata Pieczynska, Piotr Sarzynski, Jerzy Bralczyk, Barbara Czajkowska, Katarzyna Nazarewicz, Katarzyna Napiorkowska, Alicja Jaskiernia, Liv Ullman, Grace Jones, Yehudi Menuhin, Ewa Salacka, and Izabela Jaruga.From: Resume (2004)