Anna Kurtycz  Anna Kurtycz (1970-2019) was a Mexican-Polish graphic artist specializing in woodcut engraving. Kurtycz was born in Mexico in 1970, as the eldest daughter of the Polish-Mexican avant-garde performance artist Marcos Kurtycz, and lived in Guadalajara, Mexico for most of her youth. She obtained a PhD in Communication from Paris University XIII, worked as a correspondent for the Mexican journal El Occidental, while pursuing a career as a graphic artist. Her work has been exhibited in Benin, Ghana, Canada, France, Mexico, The Netherlands, the United States and in Spain. She has often collaborated with the Dutch artist RUDEK on various projects. Kurtycz died in 2019 in the Hague, Netherlands. Kurtycz lived and worked in Africa, in Ghana and Benin, from 2008 to 2015. There she created exhibitions, art projects and printing workshops for adults and children. Her work using printing and graphic arts was sponsored by NGOs and local organisations. In 2016, she presented the monograph "Marcos Kurtycz. Vida y muerte de un impresor" on the work of Marcos Kurtycz at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico. Kurtycz's work is catalogued in the French Association for Contemporary Engraving ‘Graver maintenant’, the Contemporary Artists Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Printers Association “Graver Maintenant” (France).