Born in Warsaw, Poland (7/May/1987). Lives and works in London, UK. 





Exploring the narrative potential of visual media and stretching the limits of an artist autobiography. This is not a memoir, but everything is personal. Memory is honest and true, but is not concerned with factuality. 
Suspended between homecoming and escaping, perpetually on a cigarette break with some of the coolest cats you have ever met after dark in the woods by the side of the road. Through re-remembering the past now lost of a life in a peripheral town, on the border between the Uncanny and Normal and communing with the real and imaginary, the folkloric and the stuff of post-modern legend. Just girl stuff. A little bit Twin Peaks but in the post-communist way.  It doesn’t always make sense.

Has a thing or two to say about femininity and the pursuits of perfection, post-communism, hauntology, ghosts, nostalgia, all that liminal space stuff, the migrant experience. 


Polka, która mieszka i pracuje w Londynie.  Wychowana na peryferiach Polski Po-niemieckiej, na szynce na plasterki i dymie z papierosów Caro. Wielbicielka Fiata 125 p. Rysuje i maluje na płótnie i na papierze, o sobie i o wszystkich dookoła.

Jestem skupiona na wizualnych próbach oddania nie-realiów dorastania w babińcu, pomiędzy Topieniem Marzanny a Dniem Grzybiarza wciąż powtarzając tajemnicze nocne rytuały w stałym emploi sobowtórów, kotów palaczy i groźnych choinek.
Słowa pachną wodą kwiatową a tytuły zmieniają się zależnie od pory roku.
Piosnki na cześć wypoczętej Panny Matki, komitywy przyjaznych cioć, zdrowych szlugów i wygodnych szpilek.

Socrealizm post-kapitalistyczny. Koty to też ludzie. Nostalgia to pułapka. Migracja a sprawa kobieca. 

Education

2024-2026 MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London UK

2022-2024 Turps Studio Programme, London UK

2021-2022 Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School, London UK

2018-2021  BA Hons. at Glasgow School of Art, Painting and Printmaking (including Erasmus exchange at HGB Leipzig in the studio of Prof. Christoph Ruckhäberle, Leipzig DE), Glasgow UK



Residencies

Dumfries House Printmaking Residency, November 2026
The Sarah Kravitz Artist Residency, London, June- September 2024
Borgo Pignano, Volterra, Italy, May- June 2024
The Fores Project, London, UK, February-March 2023
Borgo Pignano, Volterra, Italy, July 2022


Awards

2026 Shortlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize
           Shortlisted for the Max Weber Drawing Prize
           Shortlisted for the Chadwell Award
           Shortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Studio Prize
           Shortlisted for the Richard Ford/ Prado Prize
2025 Shortlisted for the Ingram Prize
2024 The Winsor & Newton Scholarship at UCL Slade
2022 Jack Goldhill Studio Practice Prize
2021 The James Nicol McBroom Memorial Prize
2018-2021 The George and Cordelia Oliver Undergraduate Drawing Scholarship


Longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2020 and 2023
Longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize 2020 and 2023


Solo Shows and Presentations

2024
Fern Flowers, Traits Libres Gallery, Paris FR
The Rite of Spring,  Christine Park Gallery, Shanghai CN

2023
Midnight Sun, David Kovats Gallery, London UK

2022
Re-Collected Stories- Focus On Noemi Conan, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna AT


Art Fairs:

2025
Drawing Now Paris, Carreau du Temple (Presented by Traits Libres Gallery, Paris) Paris FR

2024
Untitled Art Fair, (Presented by Christine Park Gallery, Shanghai), Miami US
DDessin Paris ( Presented by Traits Libres Gallery, Paris), Petit Palais, Paris FR

2023
Untitled Art Fair (Solo Booth, Presented by Christine Park Gallery, Shanghai and New York), Miami US
Contemporary Istanbul (Presented by PiArtworks, London) Istanbul TR
ZONAMACO (Presented by PiArtworks, London) Mexico City MX
Art SG (Presented by Christine Park Gallery, Shanghai and New York) Singapore SG

2022
Art Basel HK (Presented by PiArtworks, London) VR


Selected Group Shows

2026
The Books of Lilith, APT Gallery and Studios, London UK
Call Incoming..., Hypha Studios Euston, London UK
Immemorial, Hypha Studios Euston, London UK
Blink, Safe House, London UK
Woman’s Day Open Call, Outhouse Gallery, London UK

2025
On Beauty, Pictorem Gallery, London UK
Dziewczyna Ugryzła Się w Język i Została Bez Języka (duo show with Joanna Ambroz), R2OT, Warsaw, PL
Art On A Postcard, Women’s Day Auction, The Bomb Factory Foundation, London UK


2024
Soho Residency Showcase, Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London UK
35,5714286 at Split Gallery, London UK
Voiceover: Sanity, Madness and Methamorphosis curated by Fabienne Bideaud, Traits Libres Gallery, Paris FR
Go Bananas, Turps Gallery, London UK
A Painting Show, Paint Talk and Staffordshire Gallery, London UK
Slip Slap Slop, Safe House II, London UK
Tableaux II: Painting as Stage, Cross Lane / Vestry St, London UK
Turps Takeover 2, Xxijra Hii, London UK
Strangers In The Night, Somers Gallery, London UK


2023
Une Vie Antérieure ( duo show with Alexandra Beteeva), Traits Libres Gallery, Paris FR
The John Moores Painting Prize 2023, Walker Gallery, Liverpool UK
Year One, OHSH Project Peckham, London UK
The Burden of Heavy Flesh (curated by Andia Coral Newton), Bermondsey Project Space, London UK
Expanded Drawing Week (curated by The Paper Stage), Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh UK
Works on Paper Part 5 , Blue Shop Gallery, London UK
Becoming A Body Of Water curated by Marta Masicka), David Kovats Gallery, London UK
Friends and Family 2, Pi Artworks, London UK


2022
Send Nudes, TRIO, London UK
Delphian Gallery Open Call, Unit 1 Gallery, London UK
Carnival of Dreams, The Life Room, Edinburgh UK
Oh My, What A Lovely Basket of Fruit! New Normal Projects, London UK
Talking &... Other Banana Skins, Urban Nation Museum, Berlin DE
Fridge Collective: Brave New World, Anderson Contemporary, London UK
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette), Nadir Project Space, Brighton UK
Friends and Family, Pi Artworks, London UK
The Flesh of Paint, Liliya Art Gallery, London UK

2021
Art on a Postcard, Soho Revue, London UK
Out of the Frying Pan and into the Woods, New Normal Projects, London UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite Colchester and South London Gallery, UK
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London UK
Best of Scottish Degree Shows, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow UK
The Alternative Degree Show, Pipe Factory, Glasgow UK
The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition,  Edinburgh UK
The John Moores Painting Prize 2020, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool UK


2020
Let’s Call It A Day, HandStand und Moral, Leipzig DE
Rundgang, Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig DE
Rabbit Skin Glue, Glue Factory, Glasgow UK






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