Agnieszka Sosnowska

Agnieszka Sosnowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA from Boston University. She is currently an elementary school teacher. She lives on farm in East Iceland.
She is recognised for her self portraits that span 30 years. Currently she is working on series that embodies her life as an immigrant in Iceland. She uses the camera to take inspiration from her daily life.
Sosnowska has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship to Poland and an American Scandinavian Fellowship to Iceland. She was awarded the Hjálmar R. Bárðarson Photography Grant by the National Museum of Iceland.
Her series was awarded the Director’s Choice by the Center awards in 2017 and she has been in the Top 50 of Critical Mass on 3 occasions.
Awarded by Lensculture, “In my Backyard” won first place in the Visual Storytelling Awards in 2015 and “A Year Book” won first place in the Exposure Awards in 2020.
Her work has been exhibited in the National Museum of Iceland and The Reykjavik Museum of Photography.
In 2021 she was awarded a listamannalaun by the Icelandic government. The topic of the grant is erosion. She will collaborate with writer Ingunn Snædal on this series to combine poetry with image.
She is represented exclusively by Vision Neil Folberg Gallery in Jerusalem. Her work has been shown at numerous fairs such as AIPAD and Photo London.

Submitted by Vision Neil Folberg Gallery