Born in Częstochowa, Poland. Lives and works in New York City and Boston. During the 1980’s Harabasz worked as an art restorer in Poland end Italy. After coming to the USA she received her BFA degree from the College for Creative Studies and MFA degree from Wayne State University, both in Detroit, Michigan.
Harabasz has taught at several universities in United States. Between 2005- 2009 she was Visiting Artist/Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. She was a lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Currently she is teaching at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA).
Harabasz’s work has been exhibited widely in both solo and group shows in the United State, Europe and Israel. Most recently the 2010 Group Show Mutter Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria. In 2011 her one person show was touring in Poland; BWA Olsztyn, Gallery WozownaiaTorun, Gallery Le Guern in Warsaw and Gallery Entropia in Wroclaw.
Education
1995 BFA Graphic Communication, College for Creative Studies, in Detroit, Michgan
2000 MFA Drawing and Painting, Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michgan
Grants and Awards
2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2006 Pat Hearn and Colin De Land Grant for Artists
2001 Graduate Study Scholarship, Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan
1995 AutoFact Graphic Design Award and Grant (First Prize), Detroit, Michigan
Collections
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
Scio-Political Contemporary Art Museum Jerusalem, Israel
“The Kulczyk Collection”, Poznań, Poland.
“Signum Fundation”, Collection, Poznań, Poland
“Profile”, Foundation, Warszawa, Poland
and many private collectons
2020
Red and Violet, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań
Red and Violet, Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, Toruń
2019
Red and Violet, Profile Foundation. Warsaw
2015
Peace: An Exhivition about Abolition of War (with Krzysztof Wodiczko), Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa
2011
Pressreligion, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
Pressreligion, Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, Toruń
Pressreligion, BWA Galeria Sztuki, Olsztyn
2010
Icons and Paintings, Brant Gallery, Boston
2008
Ikony Cierpienia/Icons of Suffering, Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, Toruń
2008
Ikony/Icons, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko Biała
2008
Ikony/Icons, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
2008
Ikony/Icons, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań
2007
Icons, Luxe Gallery, New York
2007
Icon Station, John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2003
Ewa Harabasz – Paintings – Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, New York
2003
Ewa Harabasz – Paintings – Synagogue for the Arts New York, New York
2022
DEDICATIONS, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2021
On Paper, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2016
Auction Artists for Haiti, Paddle 8, New York
2010
Brant Gallery – Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Mutter Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz
2009
Place, Luxe Gallery, New York
2008
HartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Kraj: sztuka artystów z polskim rodowodem, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole
Luxe Gallery, New York
2007
Icon Station, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca
APEX Art, New York
Critical Art, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Places, Luxe Gallery, New York
Art Athina , ART EXPO, Athens
Poza, Real Art Ways, Hartford
2006
Polyphony of Images – Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, New York
2004
Second Language, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston
2002-2003
Art Works for Life, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Point
2003
An Imagined Conversation, Brooklyn Jewish Arts Gallery, Brooklyn
2001
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
Community Art Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit
