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Ewa Juszkiewicz

Ewa Juszkiewicz (b. 1984, Gdańsk, Poland) engages with the tradition of European painting, reinterpreting eighteenth- and nineteenth-century female portraiture and reframing the visual tropes of classical European painting. Her work critically examines canonical representations of feminine beauty. 

Employing a refined technique and a visual language that echoes the aesthetics of her source material, she combines a traditional painterly approach with subversive gestures. 

Her compositions disrupt the conventions of portraiture: the sitters’ faces are obscured by elaborate arrangements of fabrics, hairstyles, fruit or vegetation, drawing on a Surrealist sensibility while reconfiguring the genre.

By deconstructing and reimagining women portrayed in historical painting, Juszkiewicz repositions these images within a contemporary context. Her work examines how femininity has been formed in European painting, where women have often been defined through ideals of beauty and decorum. In her paintings, the figures elude fixed interpretations, opening the image to multiple readings.

Ewa Juszkiewicz has exhibited at leading international institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, US; Centre Pompidou-Metz, France; the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France; Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain; and the National Museum of China, Beijing, among others.

Her work is held in major museum collections, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France; the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, US; the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; the Long Museum, Shanghai, China; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, US; and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland.

 Her work has also been featured in publications including Ewa Juszkiewicz: Recent Paintings (Gagosian & Rizzoli, 2025), as well as New Surrealism (Monacelli Studio, 2023); Great Women Painters (Phaidon Press, 2022); Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (Phaidon Press, 2016); and 100 Painters of Tomorrow (Thames & Hudson, 2014).

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Selected artworks

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    130 x 100 cm
    51 1/8 x 39 3/8 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Joseph Wright), 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Joseph Wright), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    160 x 125 cm
    63 x 49 1/4 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Adélaïde Labille-Guiard), 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Adélaïde Labille-Guiard), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    100 x 80 cm
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Joseph van Lerius), 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Joseph van Lerius), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    70 x 55 cm
    27 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    160 x 120 cm
    63 x 47 1/4 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled, 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    90 x 70 cm
    35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches

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