Hanna Haska
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Hanna Haska, "The Wall", 2005, printmaking, giclee, 17 x 15 cm
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Hanna Haska - graphic artist and painter

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Hanna Haska - graphic artist and painter

From 1968 to 1971 she attended the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1976, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She obtained her diploma in the poster studio of Professor Henryk Tomaszewski. From 1985 to 1988, she stayed in the United States, where she continued her education at the Kansas City Art Institute - graphic design using a computer. Since 1988, she has been living in Toronto, and since 2002 she has been dividing her time between Canada and Poland. Between 1995 and 1996, she studied multimedia design at the Digital Media Studio at the University of Toronto.

Between 1970 and 1980, the artist practised printmaking: lithography and serigraphy. Between 1980 and 1990 she gained experience with emerging digital media: desktop publishing, multimedia, computerised printing technologies. The artist designs applied advertising graphics for American and Canadian advertising agencies, experimenting by combining her experience of artistic, academic printmaking with applied digital graphics. Hanna Haska has created her own style based on the use of the unique possibilities of new tools with an emphasis on the digital processing of photographs. The artist has won awards and distinctions worldwide for her artistic and artistic invention.

After 2002 Hanna Haska realises herself exclusively in artistic graphics using drawing and digital techniques. The themes of her works include: cultural identity, mysticism and architecture. According to the artist, architecture is a metaphor, "the most enduring art form, where for hundreds of years the thought of the builders is still available to the attentive observer". The artist has created portfolios of prints entitled: 'Archive of Places', 'Mystical Journeys', dedicated to the cultural foundations of Europe. Her main inspiration is her hometown Warsaw and its dramatic history. She has dedicated a series of prints to the capital : "Resurrected City Creates Immortal People", "City of Remembrance", "Singing of the Walls", "Archive of Places", "Deposit", "Unbroken - Great Absentees", "Warsaw Cemetery", "2 August 1944", "Engrams of the City", "Independence", "Unbroken - Centennial".

The artist formulated her authorial motto: "I am building my 'archive of places' by searching among places with a distinct identity and a unique aura of the so-called genius loci, among places important for European culture. These places exist independently, in reality (I authenticate them with my photographic references), although they are created by my imagination and on the basis of my individual experiences". The artist has presented her works in 23 solo exhibitions and more than 100 group exhibitions in Poland, England, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Japan, China, the USA and Canada.

The artist has won many prizes and awards including.: Canadian Association of Photographers & Illustrators in Communications gold medal, Toronto, 1999; Shimbum media award - Kyoto 99 international competition; Higashi Ura president's award at Flora Art competition, Japan, 2000; "Winner" in "Seiko-Ten" competition Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2001; title "Winner" in Macworld Conference & Expo digital art competition, New York, 2001; Fine Arts Foundation Award, Kurashiki 2001, Prefectural Culture Museum, Kyoto, 2001; ZPAP Honorary Award, Warsaw Graphics, Mazovia Centre for Culture and the Arts, 2004; third place in Renaissance Art Copetition Kobe City Museum, 2005; honorable mention and title "Best Artist" at the 1st Digital Miniature Biennial, Miejska Galeria Płock, 2007; title "Winner" in Art of the Olympic Games, London, 2012; Honorable Mention, Illumination of the Bible Page, Warsaw Printing Museum Competition, Historical Museum of m.City of Warsaw, 2012; third prize, National Warsaw Landscape Competition, Art Gersonika Polish Art Foundation, 2014.

The artist is a member of creative associations: Association of Polish Artists, Society of Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Association of International Triennial of Graphics in Krakow, The Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications CAPIC, Canada, World Critics of Art Association, Kobe/Japan, "At the Edge" - International Creative Group. Her works are in museum and private collections in Canada, Japan, Belgium and Poland.

Work in catalogue
Hanna Haska, "The Wall", 2005, printmaking, giclee, 17 x 15 cm. "The Wall" captures the specificity of Hanna Haska's work - a combination of artistic printmaking, drawing and photography with the possibilities of digital techniques. The monumental wall of the title, stretching to the distant horizon, is here a metaphor of overwhelm, confinement, some inhuman power. Menacing in its enormity, the fortress-like windows bring to mind a fortress. The manless landscape depresses with emptiness. Two monuments visible in the distance are the only traces of human civilisation. The wall appears to be an inhuman creation. Grey broken by a red strip of light symbolically suggesting the bloody events that probably resulted in this world of ruins.

First name:

Hanna

Last Name:

Haska

Maiden name or alternative names:

z domu Krulikowska

Date of birth:

1952

Place of birth:

Warszawa

Profession:

graphic designer, painter, artist painter, graphic artist

Bibliography:

  • Katarzyna Szrodt, „Polscy artyści plastycy w Kanadzie 1939-1989”, Warszawa 2020
  • „Exhibitia - Contemporary Art Exposed”, Londyn 2001, s. 70-71
  • P. Wójcicki, „In the Abyss, What’s up in Warsaw”, Warszawa 2004, t. 3, nr 7, s. 22-23
  • Richard Noyce, „The Edge and the Nature of Print Collections”, Toronto 2006
  • „Duch i Sacrum”, katalog wystawy Galeria Domu Artysty Plastyka, Warszawa 2007, s. 130
  • „Grafiteka 2014-2019”, katalog wystawy, ZPAP, Warszawa 2019
  • „Blizna. 75 rocznica wybuchu Powstania Warszawskiego. Wystawa interdyscyplinarna”, katalog wystawy ZPAP, Warszawa 2019

Supplementary bibliography:

"New Faces - Hanna Haska", Forum - Visual Arts/Mid-America, Center for Contemporary Art, Kansas City Artists Coalition, 5-6, 1987, USA;
"Debutants about themselves - Rehearsals", Youth Fight, 2 February 1978, no. 47;
Lilian de Luca, 'Hanna Haska', International Art Info - Intern. Art Council, Kobe, no.3/1999, pp.13-16;
I. Harasimowicz-Zarzecka, "Hanna Haska among the winners of the MacWorld 2001 Computer Art Gallery competition", review for the Polish press, Toronto 2001;
"The Temple by Hanna Haska - Was it Premonition?", Design & Publish. Center Magazine, 2001;
A. Szubert-Olszewska, "Computer Apocalypse", Letter to the Lady, no.2(110), 2003,pp. 26-27;
A. Szubert-Olszewska, "Two visions of the Apocalypse", Powściągliwość i Praca, 2003, no.11(633), p.24;
"Hanna Haska - Divine Deposition", International Triennial of Graphics - Days of Graphics - Catalogue, Krakow 2006, pp.103-105;
"Art now - Art now", Artak - Fine Arts, ZPAP in Brussels, 2011;
Kronos - cultural and philosophical quarterly, 21 (2/2012);
M. Skrobot, 'Landscape gallery-Archive of places', Arche, no. 1 (23) 2013;
A. Szubert-Olszewska, 'The resurrected city gives birth to immortal people', Letter to the Lady, no. 9(247), 2016;
K. Kasjanowicz, "From the inspiration of Poland", Gazeta Polska, 9 May 2019;

Publication:

01.05.2025

Last updated:

01.05.2025

Author:

Katarzyna Szrodt
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