Born in Parczew in the east of Poland, Małgorzata Dawidek attended Secondary School of Art in Lublin where she studied design and art craft (1991–1996). She then moved to Poznań, where she studied painting at University of Fine Arts in Poznań, and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in art history from the Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2009).
Dawidek came onto the Polish art scene in the early 2000s. Dawidek combines a wide range of media in the creation of her projects – textual objects and installations, painting, animation, photographs, written drawings and hypertexts, which are then displayed in galleries, public spaces and as published works of art and record. Malgorzata Dawidek is also a researcher of visual literature and the author of numerous articles, studies and books on visual texts, including A Piece of Poetry (Krakow 2012) and History of the visual text.
During this period, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań.
Since 2015, Dawidek has been working on her second Doctor of Philosophy research at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. 2015 – Conversio Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
2015 – Conversio Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 2014 – Ponglish, Muzalewska Gallery, Poznań, PL. 2014 – The Topography of Intimacy. An Introduction, The Art House, Wakefield, United Kingdom. 2014 – Circle, Bratislava, Saskatchewan. 2015 – Artistic Residency, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom 2014 – Artistic Residency, The Art House, Wakefield, United Kingdom 2012 – Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for young artists "Young Poland" 2010 – Award of the National Centre of Culture for the best doctoral thesis 2010 – Artistic Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 2006–2008 – Research Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education 2005 – The President of Poznan Artistic Scholarship 2004–2005 – The Ministry of Art and National Heritage Scholarship 2001–2002 – The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship 2000 – The Rector of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan Scholarship 2000 – Scholarship of intercollegiate exchanges in Vysoka Škola Vytvarnych Umeni, Bratislava/Slovakia.
