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ANNA KRZTOŃ portfolio



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ANNA KRZTOŃ krztonia@poczta.onet.pl Anna Krztoń is a freelance comics artist and ilustrator currently based in Warsaw, Poland. In 2013 she earned her MA (with honours) from Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, diploma at Intaglio Studio of prof. Jan Szmatloch. She’s collaborating with different magazines and publishers. She also creates and takes part in various independent and self-published projects. Inspired both by everyday life and by dreams, she prefers to tell her stories through the comic medium. Her works were published in comics anthologies, magazines and zines in Poland, USA, Belgium, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden. She’s currently working on her first graphic novel.


5 Clients Newsweek, Social Art, Wydawnictwo SQN, Animoon, Ha!art, Cwiszn, Krakow Post, PROwincja, Popmoderna, Magazyn Kontakt, Kultura Liberalna, Menażeria, FUSS, Centrala Central Europe Comics Art, Wyspa – kwartalnik literacki, Gwarek, Piu di Me Clothes, BIM Atas; Comics magazines & zines Dirty Diamonds, INK BRICKS, C’est Bon Anthology, Stripburger, Kuti Kuti, SW/ON, Tieten met haar, Koshka zine, Naturegraffix, (ne)maskala zineBrudno, Girls to the front zine, Wczasy, Mydło zine, Shhh!ampo, Comix zine, Zeszyty Komiksowe, Cheap East, Biceps, Tuba, Banda zine, Kofeina Art zine; Awards & Scholarships Konkurs na komiks ekonomiczny, 2015 Komiks wierszem po ukraińsku, 2014 Ogólnopolski konkurs na komiksową torbę z dymkiem, 2014 G.PART Gliwicki Przegląd Artystyczny, 2014 Bitwa Rysunkowa, Kraków, 2014 Ogólnopolski Konkurs na Taszkę komiksową, 2013 The Mayor of Tarnowskie Góry Award for artistic achievements and contribution to the culture, 2011 Scholarship of Dean of Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, 2009-2013 Selected exibitions 2016, Group show CHEAP Street Art Poster Festival, Bologna, Italy 2016, Group show „Blue Beginnings”, Galeri Hybriden, Malmo, Sweden 2016, Group show „Salon Kąpielowy”, Galeria Messier42, Kraków, Poland 2016, Group competition exhibition at Fumetto, Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland 2015, Solo exhibition „Komiks i inne nieszczęścia”, Galeria 011, Klub Od Nowa, Toruń, Poland


6 2014, Solo exhibition „Ludzie i potwory” (with Krzysztof Hain), MDK „Południe”, Katowice, Poland 2014, Group show „42 Premio Internacional de Arte Grafico Carmen Arozena 2014”, Muzeum Casa de la Moneda, Madrit, Spain 2014, Group show „Koshka zine at Publishing Clearing House, at ‘A Proximity of Consciousness: Art and Social Action’”, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA 2014, Group show „Skłonności do ostrości”, Galeria Satyrykonu, Legnica, Poland 2014, Solo exhibition „Monstruarium”, Galeria Lamelli, Kraków, Poland 2014, Group show „CHEAP Street Art Poster Festival”, Bologna, Italy 2014, Group show „Pozdrowienia z Kato”, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej MD_S, Wrocław, Poland 2013, Group show „Space as a tool” Galeria Extravagance, Sosnowiec, Poland 2013, Solo exhibition „Potwory i ludzie”, Galeria Inny Śląsk, Tarnowskie Góry, Poland 2013, Group show „Dyplomy 2013”, BWA, Katowice, Poland 2013, Group show „CHEAP Street Poster Art Festival”, Bologna, Italy 2013, Group show “Salon Ilustratorów”, Poznań, Poland 2013, Solo exhibition „Krztoń rysuje komiks w Nie Zastawiać!”, Galeria Nie Zastawiać!, Katowice, Poland 2013, Solo exhibition „Hologram Jaźni: Potwór”(with Paweł Pilecki), CKK, Katowice, Poland 2012, Group show „Urban Legends”, ZPAF, Katowice, Poland 2012, Solo exhibition „Deus ex anima” (with Patrycja Juszczak), Galeria Aya, Katowice, Poland 2012, Group show „Studium klucza”, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland 2012, Solo exhibition „De Profundis”, Galeria Inny Śląsk, Tarnowskie Góry, Poland 2011, Solo exhibition „De Profundis”, Bekescaba, Hungary


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Series of illustration for DKMS Fundation

2016

I was hired by Social Art company from Warsaw, Poland, to create series of illustration for social networks of DKMS Fundadtion.


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Illustration for Polish edition of Newsweek, issue 11/2016 Illustration for weekly magazine „Newsweek”.

2016


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Lineart illustration for coloring book

2016

I’ve created 28 lineart illustrations of some of the most famous places and buildings in Poland. It was done for Publishing House SQN (Krakow, Poland).


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Illustrations about creating comics

2015

Created for UM Katowice and Fundation Virbus Unitis. Illustrations were published in book „Różni, ale równi!”.


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Menażeria illustrations Cover illustrations for 25th and 29th issue of online magazine „Menażeria”.

2015


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Family

2015

Illustration created for all-girl comics anthology „Dirty Diamonds� from USA. It was a chapter page. Book was published in the fall of 2015.


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Illustrations for “Kontakt” Magazine

2015-2016

This illustrations were created for Polish magazine „Kontakt”. Some of them were included in online edition of the magazine, and some were printed in quarterly published paper edition.


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Popmoderna

2014-2016

Illustrations created for online magazine about pop culture “Popmoderna�.


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Cwiszn issue 1-2/2014

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Severla illustrations (including cover art) for quarterly published magazine “Cwiszn”, dedicated to Jewish culture and literature. Theme of the issue: foreignness – unusualness.


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Kultura Liberalna

2014-2016

Illustrations for online weekly magazine “Kultura Liberalna�. It is dedicated to social, political and cultural issues. Since July 2014 I cerated over twenty illustrations for this client.


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Piu di Me

2014-2016

Illustrations and patterns for Piu di Me, small company creating good-quality and well designed clothing for kids.


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London

2014

Illustration of City of London with some of it most important buildings along the river Thames. Created for language camps workbook of travel agency BIM Atas.


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Monsters and gardens

2013

Illustrations for card game „Monsters and gardens”, created with Krzystof Hain during our studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Some of this illustrations were also included in „Zeszyty komiksowe” (2014), Polish magazine about comics, and one was published by Doodlers Anonymous in „A Robot Coloring Book” (2015).


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“Półludzie” poetry collection

2012

Several illustrations (and cover) created for collecion of Andrzej Kanclerz poems “Półludzie” (half-people). Book was published in 2012 by Drukpol and Stowarzyszenie Miłośników Ziemi Tarnowgórskiej.


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“Krakowską do nieba” poetry collection

2011

Cycle of illustration for collecion of poems “Krakowską do nieba” by Jan Drechsler. It was published in 2011 by UM Tarnowskie Góry.


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Comics story „Room of my own”

2016

Comics created for the third issue of independent comics zine „Brudno”. Theme of the issue: silent treatment.


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First weeks

2015-2016

Comics story about feeling of allienation after moving to a big city. It was self-published in January of 2016.


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Graphic novel “Stories of sadness”

2015-2016

My own project – story about friendship and how mental illness can affect it. Currently in progress.


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Jabłka/Apples Comics story created for competition. It had won distinct prize.

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Constant Sorrow

2015

Short comics story created for all-girl comics anthology “Dirty Diamonds #5 Beauty� from USA (2015).


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Gert

2015

Comics created for magazine “INK BRICKS” from USA, wich is dedicated to comics poetry. Poem was written by me in the year 2009.


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The Cracow Period

2015-2016

Cycle of comics strips about living in Cracow, published weekly at PROwincja website from March to December 2015. Self-published as a comics zine in October of 2015 (Polish version) and in June of 2016 (English version).


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Early Mornings

2013

Comics for magazine „C’est Bon Anthology” from Sweden. Published by C’est Bon Kultur. Theme: romance (2014).


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Wiosna/Spring

2014

Comics created with the poem of Polish author Anna Podczaszy. It was made for the comics poetry competition in 2014 and it was published in anthology “Komiks wierszem żeńskim”.


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Koniec świata/End of the world

2013

Comics about dying cites. Published by art group Banda in their zine “The End” (2013) and in the third issue of magazine “Wczasy” (2015).


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Journeys interrupted by life

2012-2014

Cycle of comics strips about traveling, working in travel agency, and student life. Some of them were published in online magazines “Touche” and “Menażeria”. Several of them were as well published in self-published zine “Journeys interrupted by life” (both in English and Polish). Some of them (ones about living in Katowice) were also a part of project “Greetings from KATO!”.


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