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 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA (2014), with the emphasis in Photography and Sculpture, and an MFA in Sculpture from University of California, Irvine.
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Her research is located at the intersection of philosophy, psychology of religion and psychoanalysis.
She engages with phenomenology, and questions regarding the structures of consciousness that organize subjective experience of reality and identity. Her work references the indivisible aspects of bodies and subjectivities, blending and blurring the lines between opposing materials and ideologies, the symbolic and the material, and the imaginary and the real.
She is co-founder of Phase Gallery, a contemporary art space located in Los Angeles, focused on experimental and emerging art practices.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, University of California Irvine, CA
BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Polish Philology, University of Kraków, Poland
Fine Art, University of Kraków, Poland
Exhibitions
2023
Constallating_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
Composites, Aedas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Group Exhibitions
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
Publications
TIME, Time at the Time of isolation / Tempo al Tempo dell'isolamento by Renato Penna, 2020