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.


Bio:
Education
2024-2026     MA Film, Television and Photographic Art and New Media,  ITF Opava, Czech Republic
2023-2024     Postgrad. Data Science, WSB NLU, Poland
2021-2022      MSc Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
2019-2020      Photography Mentorship Program, Sputnik Photos, Warsaw, Poland

2018-2023    BA Film, Television and Photographic Art and New Media, ITF Opava, Czech Republic
2014-2017     BA Journalism and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Relevant Experience

2023-2024           Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Teaching Assistant, Team Educate, Bristol
2024                   Theatre of the Oppressed workshop series guest co-facilitator, Bristol
2023                   Guest lecturer, Academy of Photography, Krakow

Exhibitions

2023                Der Greif, Guest Room: Marina Paulenka
2022                Solo exhibition, The Best Possible, Lokstallen, Rødberg, Norway
2021                 Group exhibition 30 years of ITF Opava, Annual Month of Photography in  Opole, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole, Poland 
2021                 Group exhibition Opava school of photography, 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 ITF 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
2024                  How do you remember anything? Kiezschätze, Berlin
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
2020                  NO.9 Sputnik Photos Mentoring Program book