Joanna Rzezak Biography

Joanna Rzezak is an artist and illustrator living in Paris.

   She was born in 1988 in Warsaw. In 2013 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a diploma in Children book design and Editorial design. She is also an architect, a graduate from Warsaw University of Technology in 2015.
   Today, she considers herself a multidisciplinary artist working on painting, illustration, design and children book projects. In her work she likes to juggle between various techniques as aquarelle, gouache, pencil, ink and digital.
   Since 2013 she collaborated with designers, architects and editors (French and foreign). She worked for design studios, set design offices, architects offices prior to launching her fully freelance artist activity in 2016.
   She writes and illustrates children books. 
   Her books were published internationally: in France, USA, UK, China, Corea, Poland, Italy, Denmark, Turkey and Spain. In her books she puts a special interest in a relation between nature and human realities.
   She won numerous awards and scholarships: a Bologna ragazzi Opera Prima (in 2014), 
   Poland’s Ministry of Culture scholarship prize for artistic achievements (2016), a 2nd place at the Adobe 2013 Poster Competition. In 2019 and in 2023 she obtained a French Ministry of Culture Scholarship for creating her book projects. She was selected among finalists in the CCBF China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair Young Illustrators Competition in 2021.
   She is a happy mum of two children. In her free time she loves to read, read and read. She also enjoys making things (lampshades, concrete tiles), paint, play the piano and swim.

Selected Clients: 

Thames&Hudson, Rizzoli, Actes Sud Junior, Radio France Inter, Wydawnictwo Agora, Gazeta Wyborcza, Livre Paris, Post Netherlands, Studio Tord Boontje

Exhibitions:
2021 – CCBF China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair Young Illustrators Competition Finalists Exhibition
2014 – Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima exhibition
2014 – International Poster Biennial in Warsaw
2013 – Paris Metro: „Nous voici, les voila”, exhibition at Paris Madeleine metro station
2011 – International Poster Biennial in Mexico
2011 – Ljubljana Poster Festival, group exhibition, poster design
2010 – International Poster Biennial in Warsaw