ARCH welcomes artist Joanna Piotrowska in residence this January–February.

Born in 1985, Joanna Piotrowska lives and works between London and Warsaw. She studied Photography at the Royal College of Art in London and Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Her photographic practice focuses on familial structures and their relationship to the wider systems - including politics, economics, social, and cultural life. She explores the past and the present, showing all the inequalities of power and psychological drama, and translating the gestures and everyday intimate behaviours into new scenarios - giving them an almost caricature-like quality. The artist uses her surroundings to show the anxiety and psychological tension of the domestic space - rather as a document of a performance than a documentary image.
Her work has been exhibited at renowned institutions including Tate Britain (2019), Kunsthalle Basel (2019), 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and MoMA, New York (2018), amongst many others. In 2020, she held a solo exhibition at Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland. Her third monograph, "Stable Vices", will be published this February by MACK Books, London.

Education:
2011 – 2013 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004 – 2009 BA Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland

Selected Exhibitions:
2021
60 Years. Tate Britain, London, UK
Are we home yet? Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany / solo show
Siza Pavilion, Raketenstation Hombroich, Insel Hombroich Foundation / solo show
British Art Show IX
2020
Frowst, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland / solo show
Our Red Sky, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
Panic TV, Steirischer Herbst Biennale, Graz, Austria
2019
Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland / solo show
All our false devices, Tate Britain, London, UK / solo show
Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds Gallery, Leeds, UK / solo show
Jen Liu, Joanna Piotrowska, Jesse Wine, Simone Subal, New York
2018
Antarctica. An Exhibition On Alienation. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
SUPERSTITION, Museum Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands
Structures of meaning | Architectures of perception, Gateway, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
SCULPTURES, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, Poland
Frieze, solo presentation with Southard Reid, London, UK
We don’t need another hero, 10th BERLIN BIENNALE
Being: New Photography 2018, MoMA, New York
Material Environments, The Tetley, Leeds, UK
Condo Mexico City, Arredondo\Arozarena hosting Madragoa and Dawid Radziszewski Gallery / solo show
Condo London, Southard Reid
2017  
Big towers, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
GAUDIOPOLIS, Off-Biennale, Budapest, Hungary
Untitled, Southard Reid, London, UK / solo show
Art Basel/Statements, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Basel, Switzerland / solo show
SEVER, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal
ROOM, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK
ROOM, Sadie Coles, London, UK
Give Me Yesterday, Prada Foundation, Milan, IT
2016
Frantic, Madragoa Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal / solo show
LISTE 2016, Basel, Switzerland / solo show with Dawid Radziszewski Gallery
Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, PL / solo show
2015
Jerwood and Photoworks Awards 2015, Jerwood Space, London, UK
Frowst, Ethnographic Museum, Photomonth, Kraków, PL / solo show
True Players, W139, Amsterdam, NL
Hester, Southard Reid, London, UK / solo show
How Are You?, Księgarnia | Wystawa, Kraków, PL / solo show
Art Lending Library project by Walker & Bromwich, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
Krasna-Krausz Book Awards and First Book Award 2015, Media Space, Science Museum, London, UK
Kombucha, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, PL
2014
s.w.a.l.k Project Space, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK / solo show
What love has to do with it, Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2013
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Family Politics, Jerwood Space, London, UK
Fly me through the night, Pilot. Private house at Primrose Hill, London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
21st Century Art and Design – RCA 2013, Christie’s, London, UK
MA Graduation Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2012
The Suspension of History, Basement Project Space, Cork, Ireland
2010
5128 Zpafiska Gallery, Cracow, Poland

Nominations, Awards and Residencies:
2018 Lewis Baltz Research Fund
2017 Inclusartiz Institute Residency, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 Reda Prize, Artissima, Turin, IT
2016 Nomination for Paul Hamlyn Foundation Prize
2015 Plat(t)form, Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland
2015 Photoworks & Jerwood Award
2014 First Book Award, MACK Books
2011 Genesis Foundation Scholarship
2010 Hidden Places artist in residence, Görlitz, Germany

Bibliography:
2014 Frowst by Mack
2017 Frantic by Humboldt Books
2021 Stable Vices by MACK 

Selected Public Collections:
Tate Britain, London, UK
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
British National Photography Collection, Bradford, UK

Artist:
Joanna Piotrowska

Residency Period:
15.01.2021–26.02.2020

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