Since 2013 New York based artist Aneta Bartos has been traveling back to her hometown Tomaszów Mazowiecki, where she was raised by her father as a single parent from the age of eight until sixteen. Then sixty eight years old, and having spent a lifetime as a competitive body builder, Bartos’ father asked her to take a few shots documenting his physique before it degenerated and inevitably ran its course. The original request of her father inspired Bartos to transform his idea into a long-term project called "Dad". A few summers later Dad developed into a new series of portraits, titled "Family Portrait", exploring the complex dynamics between father and daughter. At the same time, she has been developing the popular series "Spider Monkeys" and "Monotropa Terrain." Currently she is preparing shootings in Egypt and Peru for her upcoming series "That Which is Hidden".
Aneta Bartos was born in Poland and moved to New York City where she attended The School of Visual Arts. In early 2013 she exhibited her project titled Boys with a solo exhibition at the Carlton Arms Hotel, New York curated by Jon Feinstein. During 2012 she was a part of 31 Women in Art Photography at Hasted Kraeutler, New York curated by Natalia Sacasa and Jon Feinstein. Earlier that year she showed in a two-person exhibition titled Jack & Jill curated by Anne Huntington. In 2010 her collaboration 4Sale was shown in New York, Moscow and Poznan.
In 2017 Family Portrait was the subject of a solo exhibition at Postmasters, NY; and in the same year her work was also featured in Family Values, curated by Kate Bush at Calvert 22 in London, and in the exhibition Marginal: Women in Contemporary Art, curated by Sam Trioli and Christin Graham at The New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester.