Dorota Michalska

Dorota Michalska is a Doctoral Student in History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the Ruskin School of Art and Brasenose College, Oxford.

Dorota holds an MA in Culture Studies from the University of Warsaw, Poland and a MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She also completed a curatorial program at The Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Her DPhil at the Ruskin is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and by a Scatchered European Scholarship.

Between 2013 and 2015, Dorota was an Assistant Researcher at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In 2016, she was selected as a Curatorial Fellow at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy. Her recent exhibitions include: Passo Dopo Passo (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin), The Shape Left by the Body (The Sunday Painter, London), The House of the Spider (Gdansk City Gallery, Poland).

Dorota’s writings have appeared in a number of art journals such as ArtMargins, L’Internationale, Afterall, Kajet Journal. She has also written for catalogues for the Venice Biennale (2019) and the upcoming Biennale Matter of Art in Prague (2022). In 2016, her review “Chto Delat & Friends” was shortlisted for the 2nd International Award for Art Criticism organized by IAAC and the Royal College of Art, London. In 2021, she convened a decolonial research group "To See Our Own Whiteness" at Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art with an upcoming publication in 2022.

Her research currently focuses on questions of race and decoloniality within the context of Eastern and Southern Europe as well as on global, decolonial histories of surrealism(s).