Born in Warsaw, Poland (7/May/1987). Lives and works in London, UK.
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Painter, image maker, story-teller. Mixing traditional painting media with stationary, pushing biro pen into canvas. 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 but not converned with factuality.
Suspended between homecoming and escaping, perpetually on a cigarette and confronting the viewer’s eye alongside a recurring cast of doppelgangers, felines and sentient conifers. Through re-remembering half-forgotten life in a peripheral town, somewhere between the Uncanny and Mundane 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 have to 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. And it’s about cats.
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
Museo del Prado Richard Ford Residency, September 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 Max Weber Drawing Prize
Shortlisted for the Chadwell Award
Shortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Studio Prize
Shortlisted for the Richard Ford/ Prado Prize
Shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize
Longlisted for the East London Art Prize
2025 Shortlisted for the Ingram Prize
2024 The Winsor & Newton Scholarship at UCL Slade
2023 Longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize
Longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize
2022 Jack Goldhill Studio Practice Prize
2021 The James Nicol McBroom Memorial Prize
2020 Longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize
2018-2021 The George and Cordelia Oliver Undergraduate Drawing Scholarship
Publications:
2026 Compost Magazine
2024 Ashtrays Magazine VOL 1
2023 Metal Magazine
Talks and Panel Discussions:
2026
Vice, Ritual & The New Nicotine, My Lady Nicotine Panel Discussion
2023
Midnight Sun Talk with Marta Marsicka
Solo Shows and Presentations
2025
A Patience In Looking, Canalboat Contemporary, London UK
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
My Lady Nicotine, Woodward Henry/ Bompass and Parr, London UK
Immemorial, Hypha Studios Euston, London UK
Dreaming It Forward, Safe House, London UK
Woman’s Day Open Call, Outhouse Gallery/Small Works, 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
Bump In The Night (with Jesus Crespo), 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
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
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
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
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
Links
Artsy Profile
Ocula Profile
Mutual Art Profile
Painter, image maker, story-teller. Mixing traditional painting media with stationary, pushing biro pen into canvas. 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 but not converned with factuality.
Suspended between homecoming and escaping, perpetually on a cigarette and confronting the viewer’s eye alongside a recurring cast of doppelgangers, felines and sentient conifers. Through re-remembering half-forgotten life in a peripheral town, somewhere between the Uncanny and Mundane 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 have to 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. And it’s about cats.
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
Museo del Prado Richard Ford Residency, September 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 Max Weber Drawing Prize
Shortlisted for the Chadwell Award
Shortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Studio Prize
Shortlisted for the Richard Ford/ Prado Prize
Shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize
Longlisted for the East London Art Prize
2025 Shortlisted for the Ingram Prize
2024 The Winsor & Newton Scholarship at UCL Slade
2023 Longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize
Longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize
2022 Jack Goldhill Studio Practice Prize
2021 The James Nicol McBroom Memorial Prize
2020 Longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize
2018-2021 The George and Cordelia Oliver Undergraduate Drawing Scholarship
Publications:
2026 Compost Magazine
2024 Ashtrays Magazine VOL 1
2023 Metal Magazine
Talks and Panel Discussions:
2026
Vice, Ritual & The New Nicotine, My Lady Nicotine Panel Discussion
2023
Midnight Sun Talk with Marta Marsicka
Solo Shows and Presentations
2025
A Patience In Looking, Canalboat Contemporary, London UK
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
My Lady Nicotine, Woodward Henry/ Bompass and Parr, London UK
Immemorial, Hypha Studios Euston, London UK
Dreaming It Forward, Safe House, London UK
Woman’s Day Open Call, Outhouse Gallery/Small Works, 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
Bump In The Night (with Jesus Crespo), 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
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
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
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
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
Links
Artsy Profile
Ocula Profile
Mutual Art Profile