Ewa Słapa is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography.
She was born in Poland, where she studied Polish Philology as well as Fine Art at the University of Krakow. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, with an emphasis in Photography and Sculpture, and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of California, Irvine.
She currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.
Her research is located at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, focusing on the themes of perception and representation.
Through the sculptural application of a variety of materials, including coal dust, wax, rubber, or steel, she engages with phenomenology and questions regarding the structures of consciousness that organize the subjective experience of reality and identity. Her work references the indivisible aspects of bodies and subjectivities, the symbolic and the material, and the imaginary and the real.
She is a co-founder of PHASE Gallery, a contemporary art space located in Los Angeles, focused on experimental and emerging art practices, performances, readings, and lectures.
Phase Gallery: https://www.phasegallery.com/
EDUCATION
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MFA, Emphasis in Sculpture, University of California, Irvine, CA
BFA, Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design, emphasis in Sculpture, Photography (with distinction)
Polish Philology, University of Krakow, Poland
Fine Art, University of Krakow, Poland
EXHIBITIONS
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2025 lines, planes, bodies, Best Practice Gallery, San Diego, CA
2023 constellating_body_(files), PHASE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Studies For Conditioned Thoughts, PHASE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Drunkard’s Walk, Room Gallery, Irvine, CA
2014 -ness, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2011 Composites, Aedas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2022 FUN GAL GRO UP SHO, Gallery Sade, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Arc, Wobble, Fade, Fold, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2018 three new sculptures, Menagerie, Twentynine Palms, CA
2017 make no other sound, Room Gallery, Irvine, CA
2011 Visions of Light, Brooks Institute Gallery 27, Santa Barbara, CA
2010 Aurora, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Of Water, Peter and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2009 group show, Susan and Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2008 STRATA, Jazz Bakery Art Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007 group show, Susan and Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2006 Emerging Artists, Creative Center for Photography, Los Angeles CA
Lectures/Public Talks:
• CalArts, Los Angeles,Visiting Artist Talk for Center for Integrated Media: upccoming Spring, 2026
• CalArts, Los Angeles,Visiting Artist Talk for Center for Integrated Media: Conversations on Media, Technology and Culture - April, 2025
• CalArts, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist Talk for Art and Technology Creative Research - April, 2025
• Panelist at GLAMFA: Greater Los Angeles MFAs Exhibition, Cal State, Long Beach, 2024
• UC Santa Barbara, Visiting Artist Lecture - 0ctober, 2024
• Cal State LA, Visiting Artist Talk - Spring, 2024
• Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Artist Talk: in conversation with Brad Howe and Macha Suzuki - Winter, 2023
Publications
CONNECT, More than just a Phase, September 2023
TIME, Time at the Time of isolation / Tempo al Tempo dell'isolamento by Renato Penna, 2020