About
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.
Exhibitions + projects
2026:
Snap Inc x RCA, The Royal College of Art, London, UK. July 2026.
RCA Exhibition, The Royal Collge of Art, London, UK. July 2026.
ARG (Adversarial Research group), The Hanger (RCA), London, UK. March – April 2026.
Artist In Residence, Joya:AiR, RCA Residency Program, Parque Natural Sierra María, ES. February 2026.
2025:
Artist In Residence, Lost Artist Residency, Capri, ITA. October – November 2025.
Independent site-responsive research practice, London, UK. August 2025 – Present.
Alignment, Visceral Glitch, New York, US. August 2025.
Metamorphosis, PEP, Ardennes, BE. May 2025.
Harsh Collective, Irresolute Zine, New York, US. March 2025.
A Letter From a Friend, Bacio, Bern, CH. Janurary – 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.
Field-based & Environmental Research, Chanctonbury Ring, UK. January – April 2024.
2023:
Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize, Boodle Hatfield Building, London, UK. October 2023.
Esoteric Research & Production, Chanctonbury Ring, UK. Janurary – December 2023.
2022:
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, The Royal Arsenal, London. November 2022.
A Temporary Landing, Kingston School of Art, London. June 2022.
The Institute of Proposals, Online. April 2022.
Grid, Platform, London. March 2022.
A Particular Reality, Online. Janurary 2022.
2021:
Input/Output, Stanly Picker Gallery, London, UK. 2021.
awards + recognition
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.
publications + press
Belgium – June 2025:
PEP #18 – METAMORPHASIS – Selected artwork and text, PEP, Metamorphasis, La Nature Festival
PEP – Photography Metamorphosis – Group show – La Nature Festival.
New York – March 2025:
Harsh Collective, Irresolute Zine – Contributing Artist
September 2024:
Exactly AI – marketplace launch at Café Moskau in Berlin.
September 2024:
October 2024:
School of Commons – Into the Flux – LAB: poetic tactics to counter extraction (and other ways to train attention)
Boodle Hatfield – 2024.
The Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize: Celebrating 5 years of partnership with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
November 2022.
WCPF22 – Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2022 – Curated Hang.