Ewa Kuryluk
Drawing and installation artist, author, art history educator
Born May 5, 1946, Cracow, Poland; came to U.S., 1981; daughter of Karol and Maria (Grabowska).
Education: Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (Poland), 1970; Ph.D. candidate, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 1970-73.
Career: lecturer, State Higher School of Film, TV and Theater, Lodz (Poland), 1979, Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), 1980; adjunct prof., New School of Social Research, New York City, 1987; visiting prof., Justus - Liebig University, Giessen (Germany), 1986, University of California, San Diego, 1992.
Author: The Fabric of Memory. Ewa Kuryluk: Cloth Works (monograph), 1987; Salome and Judas in the Cave of Sex (art history), 1987; Veronica and Her Cloth (art history), 1991; Century 21 (novel), 1992; arts in permanent public collections in: National Museums in Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan and Wroclaw (Poland), Alebrtina, Vienna (Austria), Biblioteque Nationale, Paris (France).
Member of: Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art; American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists International Association Club (PEN-Club).
Honors: European Exchange Program fellowship, New York University, 1982; Hodder fellowship, Princeton University, 1984-85; award for young writers, General Electric Company, 1986; Rockefeller fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1988; fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, 1991.
Languages: Polish, English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Czech, Latin.
Hobbies: cross-country skiing, hiking, chess.
Home: 504 W. 110 St., #3A, New York, NY 10025.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996