Kaja Renkas is an artist, designer and poster artist who in her art makes of the high-tech digital media. She is a graduate of the printmaking department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Since 2011 she has been working as a pedagogue at the Institute of Art of the Silesian University, at the Video Games and Virtual Space Design department. She is a laureate of numerous awards and distinctions for her posters; her works can be found, among others, in the Poster Museum in Wilanów, National Museum in Poznań, Poster Museum in Osaka. She has participated in many individual exhibitions all over the world at, among others, Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco (USA); Gallery 215, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (USA); 2600 Cherokee Street, St. Louis (USA); Gallery of the Belorussian Academy of Fine Arts, Minsk; Gallery Zed, Leuven (Belgium); Polish Poster Gallery, Berlin (Germany). She has run graphic design workshops in Great Britain, USA, Turkey and Romania. She has taken part in the world’s most important poster events held in, among others, Warsaw, Bolivia, Teheran, Lahti, Toyama and Moscow. Kaja Renkas is the author of this year’s poster of the IFF Etiuda&Anima 2018 as well as the poster of the promotional event called Polish School of Animation – Next Generations IV; Stuttgart, Turku, Viborg, Volda, Riga organized by Etiuda&Anima Foundation.
