Joanna Piotrowska was born in 1985 in Warsaw, in Poland and currently, she lives and works in London, UK. She studied Photography at the Royal College of Art in London and Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Are we home yet? Thomas Zander, Cologne (2021); Thump, Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss (2021); FROWST, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw (2020); Joanna Piotrowska, Madragoa, Lisbon (2020); Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel (2019); All Our False Devices, TATE Britain, London (2019); Joanna Piotrowska, Leeds Art Gallery (2019); Frantic, Madragoa, Lisbon (2016); Joanna Piotrowska, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (2016): Hester, Southard Reid, London (2015).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Milk of Dreams, Biennale Arte, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice (2022); British Art Show 9, Aberdeen, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth (2021); Our Red Sky, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gotheborg (2020); Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2019); There'll Never Be a Door. You’re inside. Works From the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Fundación Santander, Madrid (2019); A Terceira Margem, Bienale Ano Zero, Coimbra (2019); Drowning in a sea of data, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019); New Photography, MoMA, New York (2018); Antarctica, Kunsthalle Wien (2018); Role-Playing, Rewriting mythologies, Daegu Photo Biennale (2018); 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018); Room, Sadie Coles, London (2017); Something halfway between the typical atmosphere I breathe and the tip of my reality, La Tabacalera, Madrid (2017); SEVER, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon (2017); These Rotten Words, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff (2017); Give Me Yesterday, Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan (2016); What love has to do with it, Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London (2014); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2013).
In 2014 she published her first monograph book "Frowst", published by MACK Books, London.
Biennale Arte 2022 | Joanna Piotrowska, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022
Dysfunctional Environments: The Unsettling Photography of Joanna Piotrowska, AnOther, 2021
Joanna Piotrowska by Magdalena Ziolkowska, ArtForum, 2021
"Frowst" at Zacheta National Gallery of Arts - Interview with Magdalena Komornicka, 2020
João Laia on Joanna Piotrowska's 16 mm film Untitled (2016), and the series of Frowst (2013-2014), MADRAzine #13, October 2020
Joanna Piotrowska’s Unsettling Photography Forcefully Confronts Hidden Violence, ARTnews, 2020
When Joanna Piotrowska Was Accused of Being a Spy, She Focused Her Lens on Roses, Frieze, 2018
Luca Lo Pinto on Joanna Piotrowska's FROWST XX, MADRAzine #3, March 2018
Joanna Piotrowska questions reality with new photo series, Dazed, 2016
Dreams Are The Facts From Which We Must Proceed
Installation view at Galeria Kaufhof, Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Witten, Germany
May 5th - June 6th 2023
Entre Nous
Installation view at Le Bal, Paris, France
February 16th - May 21st 2023
Sleeping Throat, Bitter Thirst
Installation view at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
June 25th - September 25th 2022
Sub Rosa
Installation view at ARCH Athens, Athens, Greece
17th June – 22nd December 2022
Installation view at The Milk of Dreams, 59th Biennale Arte, Venice, Italy
April 23rd - November 27th 2022
Installation view at The Milk of Dreams, 59th Biennale Arte, Venice, Italy
April 23rd - November 27th 2022
Installation view at British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
July 10th - October 10th 2021
Installation View at Art|Basel 2021 - Galleries Section, Basel, Switzerland
September 21st - September 26th, 2021
Thump
Installation view at Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Siza Pavilion, Neuss, Germany
April 30th - July 18th, 2021
Thump
Installation view at Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Siza Pavilion, Neuss, Germany
April 30th - July 18th, 2021
Frowst
Installation view at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
September 18th - December 6th, 2020
Frowst
Installation view at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
September 18th - December 6th, 2020
Frowst
Installation view at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
September 18th - December 6th, 2020
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
January 24th - March 9th, 2020
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
January 24th - March 9th, 2020
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
January 24th - March 9th, 2020
Stable Vices
Installation view at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
October 25th, 2019 - January 5th, 2020
Stable Vices
Installation view at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
October 25th 2019 - January 5th, 2020
All Our False Devices
Installation view at Tate Britain, London, UK
March 7th - June 9th, 2019
All Our False Devices
Installation view at Tate Britain, London, UK
March 7th - June 9th, 2019
SCULPTURES
Installation view at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
July 12th - August 10th, 2018
We don’t need another hero
Installation view at 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
June 9th - September 9th, 2018
Being: New Photography 2018
Installation view at MoMA, New York, USA
March 18th - August 19th, 2018
Installation view at Artissima 2017 - Present Future, Madragoa booth PF05, Turin, Italy
November 3rd - 5th, 2017
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
May 17th – August 19th, 2017
Give Me Yesterday
Installation view at Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
December 21st, 2016 - April 19th, 2017
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
September 29th - November 5th, 2016
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
September 29th - November 5th, 2016