BIOGRAPHY
Jozef Michalski (b. 1999) is an Ana-Cartographer working within the postdigital condition. His practice operates through painting, image-field construction, and computational imaging processes that layer environmental scans, photographic capture, and indexed data to generate image surfaces. He is presently undertaking an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art and working with Snap Inc. on an AR-based imaging project that extends Ana-Cartographic methods into spatial and augmented environments. His work has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, and the United States, including at the Royal College of Art, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and Café Moskau, Berlin.
Michalski’s ana-cartographic mapping treats the image as an entropic intelligence, interrogating how environmental sensing, machinic perception, and planetary-scale data systems reorganise visual culture. Through recursive layering, databending, and signal drift, his work produces composite image-fields that function as speculative maps of environments under continual pressure. Within this framework, glitch operates as a structural force rather than an aesthetic effect, reshaping both digital and material surfaces to register political, environmental, and epistemic conditions embedded within contemporary image systems.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehivbrehivwhesj fgygfuehfeu dehuwc edbjwdeiwu bheuf bewhfu ewbhfu ewbhfew bhew few fewbhf ewbhf ewbfhew bhew fb
Jozef Michalski (b. 1999) is an Ana-Cartographer working within the postdigital condition. His practice operates through painting, image-field construction, and computational imaging processes that layer environmental scans, photographic capture, and indexed data to generate image surfaces. He is presently undertaking an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art and working with Snap Inc. on an AR-based imaging project that extends Ana-Cartographic methods into spatial and augmented environments. His work has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, and the United States, including at the Royal College of Art, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and Café Moskau, Berlin.
Michalski’s ana-cartographic mapping treats the image as an entropic intelligence, interrogating how environmental sensing, machinic perception, and planetary-scale data systems reorganise visual culture. Through recursive layering, databending, and signal drift, his work produces composite image-fields that function as speculative maps of environments under continual pressure. Within this framework, glitch operates as a structural force rather than an aesthetic effect, reshaping both digital and material surfaces to register political, environmental, and epistemic conditions embedded within contemporary image systems.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehivbrehivwhesj fgygfuehfeu dehuwc edbjwdeiwu bheuf bewhfu ewbhfu ewbhfew bhew few fewbhf ewbhf ewbfhew bhew fb
Eductaion
< Goldsmiths, University of London — MA Computational Arts, 2026–2027
< Royal College of Art — MA Painting, 2025–2026
< Kingston School of Art — BA (Hons) Fine Art, 2019-2022
EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2026
< Snap Inc × RCA, Snapchat HQ, London, UK, July 2026.
< Snap Inc × RCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK, July 2026.
< ARK Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK, July 2026.
< RCA 2026 Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK, July 2026.
< British School at Rome — Rome, IT, June 2026.
< Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK, June 2026.
< CACHE, Cut the Stem, London, UK, June 2026.
< ARG — Adversarial Research Group, Hangar Space, London, UK, March–April 2026.
< Following Fallowing, SustainLab, Royal College of Art, London, UK, March 2026.
< Immersive Acts Symposium, Royal College of Art, Hangar Space, London, UK, March 2026.
< RCA AI, London, UK, February 2026.
< MRE2026, Innovate UK, Business Design Centre, London, UK, February 2026.
2025
< Alignment, Visceral Glitch, New York, US, August 2025.
< Metamorphosis, PEP, Ardennes, BE, May 2025.
< A Letter From a Friend, Bacio, Bern, CH, January–February 2025.
2024
< A Letter From a Friend, Bacio, Bern, CH, December 2024.
< Exactly AI, Cafe Moskau, Berlin, DE, November 2024.
< Into the Flux, IBA, London, UK, November 2024.
2023
< Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize, Boodle Hatfield, London, UK, October 2023.
2022
< Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal, London, UK, November 2022.
< A Temporary Landing, Kingston School of Art, London, UK, June 2022.
< The Institute of Proposals, Online, April 2022.
< Grid, Platform, London, UK, March 2022.
< A Particular Reality, Online, January 2022.
2021
< Input/Output, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK, 2021.
RESIDENCIES
< British School at Rome, Rome, IT, June 2026.
< Joya:AiR, RCA Residency Programme, Parque Natural Sierra María, ES, February 2026.
< Lost Artist Residency, Capri, IT, October–November 2025.
PUBLICATIONS / PRESS
2026
ARK Magazine — Published work / editorial contribution, Royal College of Art, London. Featured Artist. Issue held in the Victoria and Albert Museum permanent archive.
Green Family Art Foundation — Artist feature / digital press, online.
Joya:AiR — Royal College of Art Group Residency / Jozef Michalski — Resident artist profile, Joya:AiR, Spain.
Following Fallowing — SustainLab RCA — Exhibition listing / workshop feature, Royal College of Art, London.
2025
PEP #18 - METAMORPHASIS - Selected artwork and text, PEP, Metamorphasis, La Nature Festival
PEP - Photography Metamorphosis - Group show - La Nature Festival.
Harsh Collective, Irresolute Zine - Contributing Artist
2024
Exactly AI - marketplace launch at Café Moskau in Berlin.
School of Commons - Into the Flux - LAB: poetic tactics to counter extraction (and other ways to train attention)
The Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize: Celebrating 5 years of partnership with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
2022
WCPF22 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2022 - Curated Hang.
Artsy — Artist profile, artworks and exhibition history, online.
RESEARCH / FIELDWORK
Sudan, 2026–Present.
Research into gum trade, mobile material systems, focusing on extraction, trade, ecological pressure, commodity movement, painting-material supply chains, histories and the circulation of raw matter through artistic, colonial and industrial infrastructures in western canon.
Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2026.
Paint-making, pigment and gum arabic / binder research workshops connecting handmade paint production, plant-derived binders, sustainable material sourcing, material circulation and forthcoming field research in Sudan.
Norwich University of the Arts, UK, 2026.
MA-level teaching with Fine Art students, including artist talk, group critique and individual tutorials.
Tabernas Desert, Almería, Spain, 2026.
Field research into desertification, aridity, cinematic landscape, ecological exposure, terrain imaging and the construction of environmental image systems within degraded or semi-arid landscapes.
London / remote / international, August 2025–Present.
Independent site-responsive and OSINT research into environmental degradation, surveillance systems, infrastructural collapse, remote sensing, conflict image circulation, archival instability and post-digital image systems.
Middle East / Gaza, remote, 2025–Present.
Open-source research into conflict imagery, infrastructural damage, satellite evidence, platform circulation, surveillance media, evidentiary instability and the visual documentation of destruction under networked image conditions.
Fukushima / Chernobyl, remote, 2025–Present.
Comparative OSINT research into nuclear exclusion zones, contaminated landscapes, post-disaster archives, surveillance cameras, environmental memory, remote sensing and the visual infrastructures of long-term ecological catastrophe.
West Germany / Netherlands / Belgium, field / archival, 2025–Present.
Research into historical cross-border travel passages, mobility corridors, checkpoints, logistical routes, photographic route-mapping and the movement of people, images and information through post-war European border systems.
Capri / Naples, Italy, October–November 2025.
Field research into Mediterranean image systems, island and coastal ecologies, tourism, geology, ruin, urban circulation, coastal architecture and post-digital landscape translation.
English Channel, UK / France, 2025–Present.
Research into sewage discharge, wastewater overflow, marine contamination, coastal degradation, polluted maritime infrastructure and the visualisation of ecological damage across contested coastal space.
Japan / international, remote / OSINT, 2024–Present.
Surveillance-camera studies and open-source research into urban image capture, civic monitoring systems, machine-readable public space, operational images, distributed visual infrastructure and state/corporate sensing systems.
Ukraine / Russia, remote / OSINT, 2024.
Open-source research into publicly accessible Russian and Ukrainian communications, conflict-media circulation, platform monitoring, information warfare, evidentiary instability and wartime image infrastructures.
Ancient Chalkland / Ridgeway Systems, UK. January 2023–April 2024.
Field research into esoteric geography, ritual landscape, ancient trackways, chalkland ecologies, territorial memory, symbolic inscription and the transformation of mythic terrain into post-digital image systems.
AWARDS / RECOGNITION
Selected Delegate - Innovation UK representing School of Arts and Humanities RCA 2026.
Snap Inc - Snap Spectacles Cohort, Snapchat 2025-2026.
The Ali H. Alkazzi and Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award (Shortlisted), 2025.
ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined. Saatchi Gallery 4. (Longlisted), 2025.
Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize (Shortlisted), 2022.
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