About

Daria Izworska, a visual artist and researcher based between Bristol and Kraków, working on the intersection of art and psychology. Using the means of mixed visual media, she explores topics related to mental health, disability and belief systems. Currently, her work is mainly focussed around the experience of belonging to an isolated religious group, and its psychological effect on the individual and communal level.


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Education

2021-2022 Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

2019-2020 Photography Mentorship Program, Sputnik Photos, Warsaw, Poland

2018-2023 Creative Photography, The Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic

2016-2017 Photography, Academy of Photography, Kraków, Poland

2014-2017 Journalism and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Exhibitions

2023  Der Greif, Guest Room: Marina Paulenka
2022 Solo exhibition, The Best Possible, Lokstallen, Rødberg, Norway

2021 Group exhibition Opava school of photography. 30 years of Institut of Creative Photography in Opava, Annual Month of Photography in Opole, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole, Poland

2021 Group exhibition Opava school of photography. 3 Decades. Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej BWA, Katowice, Poland
2021 Group Exhibition, Opava Girls / Opava Women, 31st Annual Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia

2021 Group exhibition, 30 years of the Institute of Creative Photography FPF Silesian University in Opava, Dům umění, st. Václav Church and KUPE Gallery in Opava, Czech Republic

2020 Group exhibition, Sputnik Photos Mentoring Program Graduates 2019-2020, Social Center of Photography, Warsaw, Poland

2017 Group exhibition, Academy of Photography Graduates 2016-2017, Kraków, Poland

Publications

2023 The Image of Mental Illness in Contemporary Photography, FPF Silesian University in Opava 
2021 30 Years of the Institute of Creative Photography, FPF Silesian University in Opava catalogue

2021 Wonderland photobook

2020 NO.9 Sputnik Photos Mentoring Program book

2017 Changing shape photobook