BIOGRAPHY

Beata Bajno

Visual artist and architect – currently working at the intersection of both disciplines through experiments with light and space. Her practice encompasses multimedia installations, photography, graphic works, and interdisciplinary research. She explores the processes of perception and the formation of personal models of reality.

Light is the medium she most frequently engages with, as its ambiguous and fluid nature resonates with the processes that unfold within the human mind. She also sees it as a conduit of Presence. Years of experimentation with light have led her to create interactive, immersive installations in which the viewer becomes an active agent of transformation. Her works often reflect the coexistence of opposites: positive–negative, material–immaterial, presence–absence.

Education

MSc in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

Postgraduate Studies in "Art in Practice", Collegium Civitas University

Individual Studies, Anna Jelonek Socha Studio

(selected)

Solo exhibitions

2024 ON THE EXISTENCE OF SELF-IDENTIY, co-authors: Julia Chylak,
Mateusz Błajda, Eryk Imos, Paulina Wachnicka, The Mazovian
Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, Poland
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, V WARSAW FESTIVAL OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY,
  "Schody" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2008 BETWEEN PERSISTENCE AND TRANSIENCE, "U" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

(selected)

Group exhibitions

2025 / 2026 LATENT SPACE, video, GRAFITEKA, DAP1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2024 REFLECTIONS, light installation, The International Print Triennial
2024 in Krakow, Biała Gallery NCK, Krakow, Poland

2019 PROGRESYWNE NARASTANIE ODRĘBNOŚCI, digital print, GRAFITEKA,
DAP1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2017 EMERGENCE, light installation, GRAFITEKA, DAP1 Gallery, Warsaw,
Poland

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, 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, Warsaw, Poland

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

Art & Science

2026 "Beauty and the Beast" co-organizer of Lecture Series
starting 26.02.2026 at Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland

2025 Conference 2025 „Image Neuroscience and the Arts”, Shanghai,
China
2024 "Movement and Time in Art", co-organizer of a workshop funded

by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 18-20 November, 2024,

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in Santa Fe, NM, USA

2024 "The Future of AI in Art" - debate, co-organizer of a debate,

14 September, 2024, The Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art

Elektrownia in Radom, Poland

2024 International symposium “Time: Different Perspectives” - speaker,

Centre for Research on Culture, Language, and Mind, Warsaw

2024 "The Human Factor: The Economics of Art in the Age of AI",

panelist, debate | Transgrafia 3.0 exhibition, Krakow, Poland

2024 Center for Advanced Studies, Warsaw University of Technology,

speaker at workshop, Checiny, Poland
2023 Perceiving Art: Physics Principles & Research Challenges:
co-organizer of a workshop funded by the National Science

Foundation (NSF), 16-18 October, 2023, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France

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

2022 Co-organizer of the workshop at the Faculty of Psychology,

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Co-organizerand of the exhibition:
"Mysterious things happen here and no one knows about it but me",
WOZOWNIA art gallery, Toruń, Poland

Research

Co-initiator of a research project dedicated to the impact of art,

Centre for Systemic Risk Research, University of Warsaw | 2020

(ongoing)

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

"Art’s Hidden Topology"

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2023 | No 4 (80) Authenticity

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