Agnieszka Sejud is a photographer, visual artist, activist, part of artistic duo KWAS. She is living and working in Poland. Sejud uses different mediums to explore components of human identity, idea of individual freedom and systems of oppressions limiting our independence. Her practice works with photography, digital and analog collage, books and zines, video-works and installations. Her vision of the world is rather colorful, kaleidoscopic and psychedelic. Sejud often uses deformations and image deconstructions to serve her purposes and ideas. Her works were exhibited internationally.
agsejud@gmail.com
instagram https://www.instagram.com/a.sejud/
facebook https://www.facebook.com/a.sejud
education
2017 – present BA Photography, Silesian University in Opava, Czech
2011-2016 ML, University of Wroclaw, Poland
solo shows
2020 HOAX, RDK, Warsaw, PL
2019 Blue Room, Galeria u Agatki, Wrocław, PL
2019 HOAX, TIFF Open, BWA Awangarda Wrocław, PL
2019 Altars, Contemporary Museum Wrocław, PL
group shows
2020 Mimesis, I do not share with anyone, Kraków Photomonth, PL
2020 HOAX, slideshow, Fotofestiwal Łódź, PL
2020 Polish Paradise, various locations, FR, LT
2020 HOAX, To the streets!, Getxophoto, Getxo, ES
2020 Staged Realities, POSTWEST Festival, Berlin, DE
2019 Gość_inność, Galeria MD_S, Wrocław, PL
2019 HOAX at Three Plagues, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL
2019 Mimesis, This is Important, Zalenieki, LV
2019 KWAS issue KWAS at Photobook. Storytelling at Paperlust Photobook Fest, Cracow, PL
2019 HOAX and KWAS issue KWAS at Photobook Exhibition at Athens Photo Festival, Athens, GR
2019 Wolność / Freedom, Warsaw, PL
publications
2020 HOAX, photobook
2019 KWAS issue KWAS, zine
press
- NN6T
- Collector Daily
- Photobook Journal
- It's Nice That
- Postmedium
- Vogue Polska
- British Journal of Photography
- British Journal of Photography, printed in nr 7898
- Polish Photobook Review
- GUP Magazine portfolio photobook review
- Vogue Italia
- Paper Journal
- F-stop magazine
- HANT, printed in nr 12
- Bird in Flight
- FK magazine
- EEP Berlin
- SEEN Magazine
- K mag magazyn, printed in nr 97
awards&prizes
2020 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook award, shortlist
2020 Kassel Dummy Award, shortlist
2019 TIFF Open, winner
2019 Photographic Publication of the Year, shortlist
workshops& programs
2020 Futures
2020 Polish Paradise
2019 ISSP Latvia, The Personal as Political workshop with Natasha Caruana
2019 Failures Workshop with Erik Kessels
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