EDUCATION
SOON PRESENTED DURING THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE FRENCH SOCIETY FOR MODERNIST STUDIES: MODERNIST SEX
2025 | Postgraduate Certification in Photography
Academy of Photography in Warsaw
Diploma project: “NEGATYWIZJE / NEGATIVISIONS”
2024 | MA in History and Philosophy of Art
University of Kent | Paris School of Arts & Culture
Dissertation: "Picturing the perverse: the surreal, the Bizarre, and issues of censorship in John Willie’s vintage S/M erotica."
2023 | BA in Art History with a minor in Comparative Literature
The American University of Paris
Senior Seminar Project: “ABJECT / OBJECT(s): The fetishism of desire and disgust in Meret Oppenheim’s surrealist objects, c. 1932–39.”
Junior Seminar Project: “MAN/NERISMS & MAN/NEQUINS: Man Ray’s surrealist fashion photography for Harper’s Bazaar (1933-1938).”
2020 | CertHE in Songwriting
BIMM University, Brighton
Specialist in the Digital Collections Department, the Polish National Library, Warsaw
June 2025 - present
https://www.bn.org.pl/projekty/patrimonium/
Art Gallery assistant, Station of Art Gallery, Warsaw
December 2024 – March 2025
Tasks & responsibilities: art gallery management, sales, auction & exhibition organization, social media management, WordPress website editing, artist liaison.
Social Media assistant / content creator for ISSS, part of the Communications Committee
September 2024 – present
Content creation for the International Society for the Studies of Surrealism’s social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, BlueSky), media presence & communication planning.
Internship as assistant archivist at Frank Horvat Studio, Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris)
February - May 2024
https://www.studiofrankhorvat.com
Internship at the 17th edition of the Drawing Now Art Fair, Carreau de Temple, Paris
March 2024
https://www.drawingnowartfair.com
Editor and creative director at Roaches zine (AUP publication), Paris
January 2022 - June 2023
Curatorial assistant during the exhibition "Tamara de Lempicka: a woman on a journey", National Museum in Lublin, Poland
August 2022
Providing visitors with information about the first de Lempicka retrospective in Poland during the last two weeks of the exhibition, distributing leaflets & anecdotes about the artist.
WORK EXPERIENCE
COMING SOON :
Presenter during the 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE FRENCH SOCIETY FOR MODERNIST STUDIES: MODERNIST SEX
Paris, Université Nanterre,
24-26 June 2026
Presenter during the 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE FRENCH SOCIETY FOR MODERNIST STUDIES: MODERNIST SEX
Paris, Université Nanterre,
24-26 June 2026
Presenter/panelist and assistant to the organising group at the international conference ISSS Surrealisms 2024, The American University of Paris, France
28 - 30 October 2024
My role during this three-day conference was to aid in registering approximately 500 participants. Additionally, I presented my project MANIFÆSTO, which combines the history of modernist art with music, to an audience of academics from around the world.
Conference speaker during the LABRC’s conference on "Surrealism and Arts-Based Research: Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide," online
30 September – 1 October 2024
Presenting my MA thesis and sharing my research relating to Surrealism.
Stage manager of the virtual conference ISSS Surrealisms 2022, Ex Ordo platform
November 2022
Help running the annual academic conference of the Society, responsibility for five virtual panels (granting the right to speak and present, answering technical questions).
← conferences
PUBLICATIONS →
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
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History of art & architecture of the 1st half of the 20th century:
Art in the interwar period in France - the history of the avant-garde, especially Dadaism and Surrealism (Ray, Oppenheim, Toyen, Bataille, Miro).
Also, Art Nouveau and Art Déco (Tamara de Lempicka),
the so-called Paris School, artistic manifestos, issues of kitsch and camp in contemporary art and media; history of photography (fashion photography of the 1930s), the dialectics of eroticism and scandal.
COMING SOON :
translation of an article in “Surrealism & Ecology”
Vernon Press
(2026)
"On the Verge of Divergence"
Review of Toyen: l’écart absolu, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 25 March–24 July 2022
International Journal of Surrealism (ISJ) 1.1 “The problem of woman” – online supplement
December 2023
Review: Füssli, Entre Rêve et Fantastique at the Musée Jacquemart-André
Dépaysants
23 November 2022
Roaches Zine
Spring 2022
Review: "Chaïm Soutine / Willem de Kooning, Painting Embodied" at the Musée de l’Orangerie
Dépaysants
22 February 2022