Julia Curyło was born in Warsaw in 1986. She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Prof. Leon Tarasewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is the author of paintings and installations presented in public space.
In January 2010, she won a competition organized by Galeria A19. The large-format mural “Lambs od God” shown in the Warsaw subway brought the artist fame. In the same year, Curyło won the National Young Painting Review PROMOTIONS. In 2011, she was nominated for the prestigious award of the 10th Geppert, and in 2012 for the award of the Arteon magazine. In 2012 and 2016 she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. She is the author of over 60 exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works are in the state art collections of ex. The National Museum in Gdańsk, the Warsaw Uprising Museum, the Museum of Art in Legnica and the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. It regularly ranks highly in the annual Young Art Compass. In 2021, the British publishing house Unicorn published a book entitled “Co(s)mic image of reality in the painting of Julia Curyło”. In July 2021, she defended her doctoral thesis with honors and obtained the degree of Doctor of Arts.

Ewa Sułek: “Julia Curyło’s painting is full of symbolism, hyper-realistic and surreal at the same time, touching upon the issues of broadly understood contemporaneity and modernity. Curyło is interested in the ambiguity of the world – piety juxtaposed with perversion, childishness with maturity, morality with promiscuity, truth with falsehood, or beauty with kitsch. The roots of her work can be found mainly in surrealism and neo-pop”1