From 1946 till 1956 Lach-Lachowicz lived in Bielsko-Biała where she completed basic and secondary education. From 1957 to 1963 she studied at State High School of Fine Arts in Wrocław under the supervision of Professor S. Dawski, where she completed her MSc. In 1964 she received the Diploma of the Association of Polish Artists Photographers. In 1970 she co-founded the PERMAFO Gallery in Wrocław. Since 1975 she has been engaged in the International Feminist Art movement and has taken part in various symposia and exhibitions.
Since 2004 she has been senior lecturer at the Fine Arts Academy in Poznań.
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Awards and honorary posts
The Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship, New York, 1977
Commissioner of the I and II International Drawing Triennale in Wrocław, 1978–1981
Vice chairman of the IV and VI International Drawing Triennale in Wrocław, 1989–1995
Edinburgh International Festival, Gallery Demarco, 1972
IX Biennale de Paris, Paris, 1975
Frauen Kunst – Neue Tendenze, Innsbruck, Galerie Krinzinger, 1975
Frauen machen Kunst, Galerie Magers, Bonn, 1975
Photographie als Kunst – Kunst als Photographie 1949–1979, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts Vienna and Linz, Graz, Innsbruck, 1979
XV Biennale Internationale Arte São Paulo, 1979
Polish Photography 1939–1979, International Center of Photography, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1979
Feministische Kunst, De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam, 1979
Typische Frau, Kunstverein Bonn und Galerie Magers, 1981
La Photographie Polonaise, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1982
Erotik in der Kunst, Kunstverein München, 1982
150 Years of photography, National Museum Wroclaw, 1989
Kunst-Europa, Kunstverein Bonn, 1991
Polish Women-artists, National Museum, Warszawa, 1991