Supervisor in the Doctoral School
dr hab. Zuzanna Dyrda
Faculty of Graphics and Media Arts, Printmaking Department, Creative Drawing Studio
Zuzanna Dyrda – an interdisciplinary artist. She graduated in Graphic Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (2013) and Cultural Studies at the University of Wrocław (2011). She also studied at ESAD Orléans (France) and KHiB in Bergen (Norway). In 2017 she obtained her PhD, and in 2025 her habilitation in fine arts. She develops projects at the intersection of printmaking, installation, performance, and body art, exhibited in both national and international contexts. Her practice explores memory, touch, and trace, focusing on multisensory experiences – both individual and collective – while extending the printmaking medium into relational and spatial dimensions.
Most important achievements of the last 10 years:
1) 2025 Foreign Body – solo exhibition, Geppart Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2) 2023 Artist residency at McColl Center, Charlotte, USA
3) 2021 Artist residency at Proyecto´ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
4) 2019 Marking – solo exhibition, International Center of Graphic Arts, Kraków, Poland
5) 2018 Professor Witold Skulicz Award at the International Print Triennial, Kraków, Poland
Supervision
Language of consultations:
Polish, English
Characteristic of the projects and research in which the PhD student is to be subsumed:
Interdisciplinary activities situated within social, cultural, and spatial contexts, exploring memory, touch, trace, and experience. Projects arise from openness to experimentation, critical questioning, and the search for non-obvious solutions. Sensitivity in developing relationships between medium, audience, and space. The doctoral candidate will develop practical and theoretical skills working with selected artistic media – printmaking/ drawing/ installation/ performance/ body art – conducting formal, conceptual, and contextual experiments
Characteristic of didactic cooperation between the supervisor and the PhD student:
Collaboration will be based on regular dialogue and shared exploration of inspiration, supporting the candidate’s development of his/her own creative path. Key aspects include the ability to plan, execute, and document works, flexible choice of media appropriate to the concept, openness to collaboration with other artists and community partners, and motivation to independently explore new artistic solutions.
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