Beata Bajno, an artist and architect based in Warsaw, Poland, is actively engaged in scientific research on art perception. She explores the dynamics of creating personal models of the world and develops immersive light installations, delving into the processes of emergence, transformation and disruption of internal visual imagery.
Solo exhibitions & events ( selected )
2023 Perceiving Art: Physics Principles & Research Challenges:
Co-organizer of a workshop funded by NSF
16-18 October, 2023, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
2018 INSTABILIUM Beata Bajno & Joanna Leszczyńska, "Lufcik" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2014 IN STATU NASCENDI V ART FRESH FESTIVAL 2014, Warsaw, Poland
2012 GLANCES "Fort" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2012 INDEFINITENESS "-1" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2010 UNRAVELING THE SILENCE "022" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2009 EVENT HORIZON "Schody" Gallery, V WARSAW FESTIVAL OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY
2008 BETWEEN CONTINUANCE AND TRANSIENCE "U" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Group exhibitions & events ( selected )
2022 GRAFITEKA 2022 DAP1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2022 Art and Science as Ways of Knowing and Experiencing the World:
Creativity, Abstraction and Learning - keynote speaker
11th Peripatetic Conference, Zakopane, October 27-30, 2022
2016 BERLIN FOTO BIENNALE Palazzo Italia, Berlin, Germany
2016 40 FACES OF BERSZ Leica 6x7 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 WARSAW GRAPHIC PRINT COMPETITION 2014 and works chosen
from 20 years of The Competition Galeria Test, Warsaw, Poland
2015 TRACES DAP2 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2014 INTERFERENCJE / INTERFERENZEN Polish-German Project, Second Home Gallery,
Berlin, Germany
2013 GLIMMER II ART FESTIWAL | YOUNG AT ART, Warsaw, Poland
2012 18th EDITION OF WARSAW GRAPHIC PRINT COMPETITION
Galeria Test, Warsaw, Poland
2011 2nd KULISIEWICZ INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC ARTS TRIENNAL IN WARSAW IMPRINT'2011
2010 16th EDITION OF WARSAW GRAPHIC PRINT COMPETITION
Galeria Test, Warsaw, Poland
2009 CINNAMON SHOPS MANNEQUINS Gallery Jabłkowscy, Warsaw, Poland
2009 INSPIRED BY BRUNO SCHULZ VI INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL,
Rybnik, Poland
2008 IPA BEST OF SHOW Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, USA
2008 IN MINOR FotoArt Gallery, Szczecin, Poland
2007 Santa Maria Della Pieta, Venice, Italy
Awards
2nd Prize The 7th Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women
Photographers, "Fine art"
1st Prize Portraiture Best New Talent - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2014
1st Prize Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2014, "Portraiture - Children"
1st Prize Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2014, "Portraiture - Other"
3rd Prize Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2014, "Portraiture - Family"
3rd Prize International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2012, “Fine Art-Portrait"
2nd Prize Warsaw Graphic print Competition FEBRUARY 2011
2nd Prize Warsaw Graphic print Competition JANUARY 2009
2nd Prize International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2008, “Nature-Flowers"
3rd Prize International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2008, “Fine Art-Collage"
Honorable Mentions
Honorable Mention, Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2014
7 Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2013
6 Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2012
Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2011
2 Honorable Mentions, Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2011
7 Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2010
Honorable Mention, Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2010
8 Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2009
17 Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards ( IPA ) 2008
3 Honorable Mentions, Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2008
Honorable Mention, ‘Foto Walki’ 2008
Honorable Mention, Venice International Photo Contest VIPC 2007
Honorable Mention, 'SPOTKANIA Z FOTOGRAFIĄ' 2007
Honorable Mention, 'Kobieta wolna, kobieta niezależna' 2007
Publications
Jacek Rogala, Beata Bajno, Andrzej Wróbel
A hidden message: Decoding artistic intent
PsyCh Journal Institute of Psychology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences | First published: 13 July 2020
Marek Kuś, Jacek Rogala, Joanna Dreszer, Beata Bajno
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2023 | No 4 (80) Authenticity
Education
Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology - Master's degree
Anna Jelonek Socha Graphic Arts Studio - individual studies
Collegium Civitas University “Art in Practice” Postgraduate Studies