Marta LEŚNIAKOWSKA (b. 1950), Apollo's Head #25 After Yves Klein, 2019 / 2024

collectible color photograph, digital on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315g (semi-flash) archival paper, acid-free, 40 x 40 cm (composition), paper: 50 x 50 cm, 2/5, signed l.d. and on back. Author's certificate of authenticity attached.

Art historian and critic, professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ph.D., university lecturer, specializes in the study of modern architecture and visual culture in a transdisciplinary perspective. Author of 10 books and numerous scholarly and critical studies. Awarded the Gloria Artis Medal of the Minister of Culture and Heritage for her contribution to culture (2014).
Parallel to her academic work, she practices photography-art. She has exhibited since 2010 in more than 50 exhibitions at home and abroad, receiving many awards and prizes, including:
Collector Photography 2011; XV Biennale of Landscape Kielce 2012; XVI International Biennale of Landscape "Definitions of Space" Kielce 2014, 216, 2018, 2020; International Exhibition "Still Life in Photography" Czestochowa 2014; "My small and big journeys" Suszec 2014 (award), 2015 (1st prize), 2017; "Kieleckie Inaczej" Kielce 2014 (award), 2015 (award); NFI Fotomeisterschaft Vienna 2014; "Still Life in Photography", National Museum Wroclaw 2014; X National Photographic Championship Olsztyn 2014 - Grand Prix and 1st Prize "Golden Glass"; 2015 honorable mention, 2016 honorable mention; 2019; "Beskidy in the frame stopped" - 14th edition 2015 (honorable mention); "Foto Pein 9'2015" - International Competition of Industrial and Industrial Photography (award); XXV National Salon of Artistic Photography Żary'2015 (award), 2016 (honorable mention); 2017, 2019 award nomination; "Avalanche" Mountain Photography Competition 2015 (1st award); XXI Photo Contest "Chelmy w obiektywie" 2015 - special award; Center for Contemporary Art 2016, 2017; "International Salon Photoart" Prague 2016; OKF "Polish Landscape", Kętrzyn 2016; XXI OKF "Portrait" Trzcianka 2016 (award nomination); III Wojnicki International Photo Contest 2017; Autumn Cultural Meetings "Autunalia" 2017; Photo Contest "Still Life", Zielona Gora 2017, 1st prize; 4th National Photo Contest "Recorded with Light", 2017; National Photo Contest "Freedom", Ostrołęka 2018 (honorable mention); "Sea Legend in Lens", Gdynia 2018 (1st and 3rd prize, honorable mention); XXXVI National Literary-Photographic-Plastic Contest "Confrontations 2018" Award; "Warsaw and its heritage" - photo contest Golub GetHouse and Mint of Poland S.A. 2018; Photo Contest "Szeroki Kadr" 2020; "Signs of the epidemic time" exhibition, Walbrzych 2020; International Photo Confrontations "Only one photo", 2020; International Street Photography Contest "Fujifilm Moment Street Photo Awards", 2020; OKF "Life is beautiful", 2020; Exhibit at CCA, Center for Contemporary Art Signs of Time Torun'2021 (winner).
Many photographs were reproduced in exhibition catalogs and publications about photography. Works in private and public collections, including the National Museum in Wroclaw, the District Museum in Bydgoszcz.
She lives in Warsaw.