Katarzyna Krej (1979)

She lives and works in Wrocław.

From 1999-2004, she studied Glass Design at the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, graduating under the supervision of Professor Małgorzata Dajewska. In 2003, she spent a year on an Erasmus scholarship at the Faculty of Painting and Glass Design of the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart under the direction of Prof. Johannes Hewel.

Distinguished in New Glass Review 24 and New Glass Review 26, The Corning Museum, New York, a competition in which the 100 most interesting glass objects from around the world are selected.

Between 2002 and 2004, she received an Artistic Scholarship awarded by the Mayor of Wrocław.

In 2022, her work was exhibited at Glass Art 2022 in Nice, at an exhibition accompanying the glass festival and fashion show in Biot, France, at an exhibition in Shanghai, China and at four exhibitions in Poland.

In January 2023, one of her works was shortlisted for the second stage of the Horbowy International Glass Competition.

In 2024, she was awarded a Scholarship by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Her works have taken part in group and individual exhibitions and can be found in museums and private collections at home and abroad.