Joa Zak (aka Joanna Łuczaj) was born on May 9, 1979 in Kielce, Poland.
- 1994-1999 Study at the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Kielce, Poland.
- 1999-2004 MA studies in pedagogy with art at the Institute of Art Education, Świętokrzyska Academy in Kielce.
- 2012-2014 Doctoral studies at the Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, majoring in Fine Arts.
- 2012-2014 Internship at the Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
- 2014-2017 Agreement for a didactic work, Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
- 2015 Doctorate in the field of Fine Arts, in the discipline of Fine Arts entitled "Imaging the paths of everyday life".
- 2016 Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Faculty of Textile and Clothing, in the field of "Fashion, styling, trends (Designing clothes)"
- 2018-2020 Employment contract, University of Arts in Warsaw
- 2022-2023 Scholarship from the Visegrad Funds for research and artistic work at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Joa Zak is a Polish visual artist, one of the main representatives of the Discursive Geometry movement. She works mainly in the field of painting, but in her artistic achievements also has a digital graphics and video.
Her art is inspired by the creation of invisible paths by people in private and public spaces: in apartments, shopping malls, museums and art galleries. Her immediate theoretical background is visual ethnography, from which Joa Zak took the concept of 'creating invisible paths'. The colors of the works and other formal assumptions are explained by the author in the descriptions of four series of works: JOA'S ACTIVITY, JOA'S ACTIVITY (SEPARATE PATHS), SHOPPING MALLS and the MUSEUMS & ART GALLERIES series.
Another inspiration is the paths that Joa Zak creates while jogging. She uses the GPS record of the route she runs in a city or landscape. This series of images is called CREATING PATHS.
Joa Zak is actively involved in the national and international artistic life. She is the author of numerous exhibitions, both individual and collective, carried out in well-known and respected galleries and museums, not only dealing with geometric art.
