Gosia Wlodarczak was born in Poland (1959) and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with Distinction from Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, Poland (1984). She arrived in Australia in 1996, lives in Melbourne and works in Australia and internationally.

Drawing is the basis of her practice, extending towards performance, interactive situations, installation, sound, photo and moving-collage; she refers to it as trans-disciplinary drawing.

Since her arrival in Australia she has been awarded numerous prizes and grants including: Australia Council New Work Grant for Established Artists (2020, 2013 and 2006); Australia Council Skills and Development Grant (2008); Edith Cowan University Public Art Project (2007); Ministry for Culture & the Arts Western Australia, New Project Grant (2004).

Wlodarczak has held over 71 solo exhibitions and 63 performances in Australia and internationally including: FROST & SHADOW DRAWING FOR AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney (2019); GRASS, FROST DRAWING FOR OMI, Omi International Arts Center Ghent, US; A THROUGH-GREY ROOM, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2017); THE ICE CUBE, FROST DRAWING FOR MSK GENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent: FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Interpretation Drawing #2, 3, 4, Deakin University, Melbourne (2015); FOUND IN TRANSLATION: THE DRUNKEN BUDDHA, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne (2014); FROST DRAWING FOR THE MUSEUM, National Museum, Szczecin (2013); A ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2013); BETWEEN WANDER & SETTLEMENT, Western Washington University, Bellingham (2012), and WALL DRAWING, Shepparton Art Museum (2012).

Recent group exhibitions include: COMPASS, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art; Performing Drawing National Gallery of Australia (2018); Artists’ Books For Everything, Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen I Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen (2017); Tangents Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (2015); Drawing Out, the Dobell Drawing Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Trace, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2014); The 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: More Light, Russian Federation (2013); Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Drawing Now Paris, Carrousel de Louvre, France (2012); Singapore Biennale 2011: Open House, Old Kallang Airport, Singapore (2011; Pathway: Drawing In, On, and Through the Landscape, The Drawing Center/Big Screen Plaza, New York (2011); Freehand: recent Australian drawing, at Heide Museum of Modern Art (2010); and I walk the line, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2009).

Her work is represented in collections including: National Gallery of Australia; National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern Art; Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art; Artbank; Deakin University; Edith Cowan University; Murdoch University; Poznan Academy of Fine Arts; Western Washington University.

Wlodarczak’s selected bibliography includes: Anne Marsh Doing Feminism, Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia, The Miegunyam Press Melbourne University Press (2021); Gosia Wlodarczak Frost Drawing, Presence Artist Books (2016); Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon (2013); Russell Marshall & Phil Sawdon, Hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of Contemporary Art Loughborough University (2012); Contemporary Australian Drawing #1 Macmillan Art Publishing (2012).