EDUCATION:
2011-2017 University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland. BFA/MFA Time and Space.
2016 Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK. Exchange studies. Media Arts.
2009-2014 Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. MFA Painting.
2008-2010 Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Slovak language.
2016 Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK. Exchange studies. Media Arts.
2009-2014 Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. MFA Painting.
2008-2010 Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Slovak language.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS:
2023 Film series on Trinh T. Minh-ha. The Ocean In A Drop, Monika Czyzyk, Bamboocene (I want to build a rocket), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, curated by Iris Dressler
2022-2023 Frogs & Toads, duo show with dylan arnold, Titanik gallery, Turku, Finland
2022 Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating
2022 A recall of one’s own, Bilsar, Istanbul, Turkey. Curated by Sinan Eren Erk.
2020 Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity and Geographies of a Lonely Pole , Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Kathryn Zazenski
2020 Monstersweet Menagerientity, Muu gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2020 Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity, Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2019 I want to build a rocket, C5 project space, Beijing, China .
2017 New Media Screening & Talk Series #49 | Monika Czyzyk, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran.
2016 BOdyssey, Exhibition laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.
2016 Gregoire Rousseau & Monika Czyzyk: Public Space, Forum Box - Mediabox, Helsinki, Finland.
2022-2023 Frogs & Toads, duo show with dylan arnold, Titanik gallery, Turku, Finland
2022 Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating
2022 A recall of one’s own, Bilsar, Istanbul, Turkey. Curated by Sinan Eren Erk.
2020 Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity and Geographies of a Lonely Pole , Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Kathryn Zazenski
2020 Monstersweet Menagerientity, Muu gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2020 Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity, Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2019 I want to build a rocket, C5 project space, Beijing, China .
2017 New Media Screening & Talk Series #49 | Monika Czyzyk, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran.
2016 BOdyssey, Exhibition laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.
2016 Gregoire Rousseau & Monika Czyzyk: Public Space, Forum Box - Mediabox, Helsinki, Finland.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 No_Mad / Rooted in becoming, Konzepthaus Laboratorium, Thun, Switzerland. Curated by Allesandro Rolandi, collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns
2021-2022Boomerang:The Ninth OCAT Biennale, OCAT, Shenzhen, China. Curated by Song Yi. (selected for
festival, droped at censorship)
2021 Cellar, Institute For Provocation, curated by Song Yi, Beijing, China.
2021 Current Situation, Center For Contemporary Art Laznia. Curated by Jolanta Woszczenko.
2020 THE CURRENT THING, online exhibition. Curated by Caspar Stracke and Keith Sanborn.
2020 The Memory Differential, ORTVI, online exhibition. Curated by Amanda Schmitt.
2020 What is left after artists?, Galeria Bronowice, Krakow, Poland. Curated by Agata Pankiewicz.
2020 I Think Therefore I? Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China. Curated by Douglas Lewis
2019 Festival Bajo Techo - Maczul Museum of Contemporary Art in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Curated by Nodo CCS.
2018 Plat(t)form 2018, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Wintherthur, Switzerland.
2018 Urban Nomadism, Hangzhou Moving Image Exhibition, Liangzhu Center of Arts, Hangzhou, China.
2018 WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS RÉSUMÉ, Wro Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 BIENNALE WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 Animal and the Logic of Others, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.
2017 Rethinking Digitalization, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki. Curated by Andrey Bogush.
2021-2022Boomerang:The Ninth OCAT Biennale, OCAT, Shenzhen, China. Curated by Song Yi. (selected for
festival, droped at censorship)
2021 Cellar, Institute For Provocation, curated by Song Yi, Beijing, China.
2021 Current Situation, Center For Contemporary Art Laznia. Curated by Jolanta Woszczenko.
2020 THE CURRENT THING, online exhibition. Curated by Caspar Stracke and Keith Sanborn.
2020 The Memory Differential, ORTVI, online exhibition. Curated by Amanda Schmitt.
2020 What is left after artists?, Galeria Bronowice, Krakow, Poland. Curated by Agata Pankiewicz.
2020 I Think Therefore I? Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China. Curated by Douglas Lewis
2019 Festival Bajo Techo - Maczul Museum of Contemporary Art in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Curated by Nodo CCS.
2018 Plat(t)form 2018, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Wintherthur, Switzerland.
2018 Urban Nomadism, Hangzhou Moving Image Exhibition, Liangzhu Center of Arts, Hangzhou, China.
2018 WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS RÉSUMÉ, Wro Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 BIENNALE WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 Animal and the Logic of Others, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.
2017 Rethinking Digitalization, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki. Curated by Andrey Bogush.
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS:
2021 PHI-CREATURES, Venice Art Projects, Venice, Italy. Curated by Kasia Sobucka, Arts Territory.
2021 Miami New Media Festival, Miami, USA. Curated by Nodo CCS.
2021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival In The Screen, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2020 Videokeidas, Turku, Finland. Curated by Vaft Festival.
202 Foreign Bodies, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA.
2019 Foreign Bodies, Zacheta gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Kathryn Zazenski.
2018 Making Worlds‘ Diffrakt, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Isabel de Sena.
2017 Dance Film; Deconstructed//International Artists Program, NYC, USA. Curated by Lucy Kerr.
2017 Biennale Wro 2017 Draft Systems, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 III Festival Videoarte nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
2016 November film festival, London, UK.
2016 Media Art Festival S.O.S. Save Our Souls - Art for a time of urgencies, Ewha Womans University Campus,
Seoul, South Korea.
2016 SPECULATION(ELATION 10): THE ENCOUNTERING, New York Institute of Technology (Beijing Campus)
@ Communications University of China, Beijing, China. Curated by Torsten Zenas Burns.
2016 Farbenladen, Munich, Germany.
2016 Inescapable reality: we need to talk screenings, Limbo, London, UK.
2015 Mlode Wilki, Szczecin, Poland.
2015MADE AT KUVA – Moving Image from Helsinki, UnionDocs, NYC, USA.
2015 9 In Out festival, Laznia Nowa, Gdansk, Poland.
2014 Eurovideo festival Videographies Liege, Donostia San Sebastian, Sarajevo, Mons, Skopje and Kaliningrad.
2014 13 Mountain festival, Krakow, Poland.
2021 Miami New Media Festival, Miami, USA. Curated by Nodo CCS.
2021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival In The Screen, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2020 Videokeidas, Turku, Finland. Curated by Vaft Festival.
202 Foreign Bodies, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA.
2019 Foreign Bodies, Zacheta gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Kathryn Zazenski.
2018 Making Worlds‘ Diffrakt, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Isabel de Sena.
2017 Dance Film; Deconstructed//International Artists Program, NYC, USA. Curated by Lucy Kerr.
2017 Biennale Wro 2017 Draft Systems, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 III Festival Videoarte nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
2016 November film festival, London, UK.
2016 Media Art Festival S.O.S. Save Our Souls - Art for a time of urgencies, Ewha Womans University Campus,
Seoul, South Korea.
2016 SPECULATION(ELATION 10): THE ENCOUNTERING, New York Institute of Technology (Beijing Campus)
@ Communications University of China, Beijing, China. Curated by Torsten Zenas Burns.
2016 Farbenladen, Munich, Germany.
2016 Inescapable reality: we need to talk screenings, Limbo, London, UK.
2015 Mlode Wilki, Szczecin, Poland.
2015MADE AT KUVA – Moving Image from Helsinki, UnionDocs, NYC, USA.
2015 9 In Out festival, Laznia Nowa, Gdansk, Poland.
2014 Eurovideo festival Videographies Liege, Donostia San Sebastian, Sarajevo, Mons, Skopje and Kaliningrad.
2014 13 Mountain festival, Krakow, Poland.
SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS:
2022 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Mobility grant.
2021 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Project grant.
2020 Frame Finland. Travel grant.
2020 Kone Foundation. Working and project grant.
2019 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Display grant.
2019 Visek, Kuvasto, Helsinki, Finland. Project grant.
2018 Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse. Project grant.
2018 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Regional grant, working grant.
2017 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Mobility grant.
2016 Finnish Cultural Foundation. Working grant.
2021 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Project grant.
2020 Frame Finland. Travel grant.
2020 Kone Foundation. Working and project grant.
2019 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Display grant.
2019 Visek, Kuvasto, Helsinki, Finland. Project grant.
2018 Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse. Project grant.
2018 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Regional grant, working grant.
2017 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Mobility grant.
2016 Finnish Cultural Foundation. Working grant.
RESIDENCES:
2022 - 2023 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2021 The Amant Siena Residency, Chiusure, Italy, supported by Amant Foundation.
2019 Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China, supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2018 African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2016 Limbo Residency, London, United Kingdom.
2016 Signal Culture Residency, Owego, New York, USA, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2021 The Amant Siena Residency, Chiusure, Italy, supported by Amant Foundation.
2019 Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China, supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2018 African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2016 Limbo Residency, London, United Kingdom.
2016 Signal Culture Residency, Owego, New York, USA, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
PERFORMANCES:
2018 Ságo ń búgò in collaboration with Footrpints of David, African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria.
2013 Seven Deadly Sins by B. Brecht and K. Weil, produced by Silja Rantanen, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 Passages in collaboration with Company Kivitasku, Paris, France.
2013 Seven Deadly Sins by B. Brecht and K. Weil, produced by Silja Rantanen, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 Passages in collaboration with Company Kivitasku, Paris, France.