My name is Zosia Dzierżawska and I am an illustrator and comic author currently based in Warsaw, Poland.
I am a proud member of the Milan-based creative workspace Studio Armad’illo with eight fellow illustrators.
I studied comparative literature at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and illustration at MiMaster, a postgraduate illustration course in Milan, Italy.
Contact:
contact@zozozosia.com
Selected clients
Nobrow Press (UK), Bayard (FR), Milan (FR), HarperCollins (IT / PL), Candlewick Press (US), Architectural Review (UK), Rizzoli (IT), New York Times (US), Oxford University Press (UK), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (CH), Bajka (PL), Bombiani (IT), Timbuktu Labs (US), Corraini Edizioni (IT), ELI Readers (IT), Giunti (IT), Egmont (PL), Dwie Siostry (PL), Gazeta Wyborcza (PL), Topipittori (IT)
Selected Awards and Exhibitions
2021:
Le 1er dans le 9eme (Arts) – Bastia, FR (collective exhibition at the BD a Bastia; festival guest)
Fables for Robots – Tallin, EST (collective exhibition)
2020:
Illustrators 63 – Society of Illustrators, New York, USA (official selection with the images from the book Una bambina e basta; collective exhibition of finalists)
Retour sur soi(e) at Gallerie Papiers-Gras, Geneve, CH (collective exhibition)
Sydney Taylor Book Award for Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope
Living Archive: the fascinating world of documentary comics – Berlin, DE (lecture)
Polish Graphic Design Small Talks Online – PL (lecture)
Book of the Year nomination for Wielka Księga Klary in the Przecinek i Kropka contest by Empik (PL)
2019:
Polish Graphic Design Talks #01 – Warsaw, PL (lecture)
2018:
Paw Chew Go – BASE, Milano, IT (festival guest)
2017:
Inchiostro – Alessandria, IT (festival guest)
2016:
54th Bologna Illustrators Exhibition – Bologna Children’s Book Fair, IT (official selection, collective exhibition of finalists)
“A testa in giù” e altre storie – Libroteca Libellula, Milan, IT (personal exhibition)
Once Upon a Time in Russia – Borey Art Centre, St Petersburg, RU (collective exhibition)
Wallflowers – Fratelli Bovini Milano, IT (collective exhibition)
Il guardiano dei porci – Andersen Festival, Sestri Levante, IT (collective exhibition)
Book of the Year Award for Sto nóg stonogi Fruzi (ed. Dwie Siostry), 2016 Children’s Literature Festival, PL
2015:
Redrawing Stories From the Past – Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, DE (collective exhibition)
Sexy Rock – Parione 29 Gallery, Rome, IT (collective exhibition)
Bricks: drawing urban history of war-time Warsaw – ETH Zurich, CH (lecture)
A testa in su! – “1, 2, 3… Storie!” literary festival in Cles, IT (personal exhibition, workshop, festival guest)
Comics aus Polen – Munich Comics Festival, DE (collective exhibition, festival guest)
Hold the Line, Please – Halle.Li Gallery, Zurich, CH (collective exhibition)
2014:
A testa in giù – BilBolBul Comics Festival, Bologna, IT (workshop, festival guest)
Colonial Soldiers of the First World War – Hamburg Comics Festival, DE (collective exhibition, festival guest, panel discussion)
Colonial Soldiers of the First World War – Palais am Festungraben, Berlin, DE (collective exhibition, festival guest)
Bologna Illustrators Exhibition – National Chiang-Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan (collective exhibition)
Bologna Illustrators Exhibition – Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, JP (collective exhibition)
2013:
Equilibrio Instabile – Spazio B**K, Milan, IT (collective exhibition)
51st Bologna Illustrators Exhibition – Bologna Children’s Book Fair, IT (official selection, collective exhibition of finalists)
Illustrators 56 – Society of Illustrators, New York, USA (official selection, collective exhibition of finalists)