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