Illustrator Ambassador @BolognaBookPlus

The Illustrator Ambassador is a new initiative for 2025, celebrating one chosen Illustrator each year. 2025’s incumbent is Joanna Karpowicz

Joanna is a painter, comic artist, and illustrator based in Kraków, Poland. She is known for her Anubis series and her work in both fine art and comics, including titles like Szminka and Anubis. Thin Places. Karpowicz's art is featured in notable collections, including POLIN Museum, and she has also exhibited internationally.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Artists from Kraków: Generation 1970 – 1979, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art (2018); Comics Now!, National Museum in Kraków (2018); Blood: Connects and Divides, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2017); My Country So Beautiful, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań (2015); 4 x Karpowicz, Raven Gallery, Kraków (2014); Strange Stories, Stalowa Gallery and Meno Forma Gallery, Kaunas (2014); Comics: Urban Legends, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art (2011).