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 (2014), 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, neuroscience, 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.
Instagram: @phase_gallery
Contact: slapaewa@gmail.com
Instagram: @ewa.s_a
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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Upcoming
September 2025, 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 - one person exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2011 - Composites- solo exhibition, 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
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