Joanna Krakowian is a Polish visual artist born in 1990, now living and working as a painter and art conservator in Rome, Italy. Her fascination with history, anthropology and old masters drives her to deeply understand the different languages of art in every aspect - both material and contextual. 

Joanna graduated in 2015 from the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, specializing in Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art. She continued her post graduate education attending Course of Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art at ISCR (Istituto Superiore per Conservazione ed il Restauro, Rome). She also holds her BA in archaeology from the University of Warsaw.

Her current projects aim for dialogue between the past and present; both in painting and conservation. In a practice of figurative art making Joanna is deeply influenced by Roman, Christian and multi-cultural aspects of her surroundings. She identifies herself as neoromana; with a conscious and intellectual belonging to both eastern and western European traditions. Most of Joanna’s creative attempts come from tensions between these two. She also explores the world of a new iconographic narrations, spoken and shared from the female perspective.

The artist’s paintings can be found in private collections in Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan and United States.