Ania is an artist working with photography, installation, text, sound, and video, and an educator.  She is interested in agitating archives, mythmaking, folk traditions and ecofeminism. As a female, migrant artist working in photography’s expanded field, she is invested in reclaiming the medium she loves from its problematic Western, patriarchal legacies, testing its transformative potential by using autotheoretical, participatory, and curatorial feminist methodologies.

Ania has exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, Germany, USA, India, and her work has appeared in numerous publications since 2001.  She is the Winner of the Observer Hodge Photographic Award, 2003, was selected for the London National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Award, 2007, awarded The Wellcome Trust People Award, 2008-11.  International residencies include Ashkal Alwan residency in Beirut (2014), a SPACE artist residency at Arlington, a hostel for homeless men and women (2010-2012) and Dharamshala International Artists Workshop, Khoj International Artists Association, Delhi, and White Crane Arts & Media, Dharamshala, India (2012), for which she was nominated by Polish Cultural Institute in Delhi. 

She is a Senior Lecturer in Photography + Critical and Contextual Studies at the London Metropolitan University (since 2013), she was a Lecturer in Fine Art, the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford (2007-10), and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2006-2012), Central St Martin’s, London, The Margate School (2020 - 2023). She has over 20 years of experience of visual art, curatorial projects, public speaking, lecturing, mentorship, workshop facilitation with organizations in the UK and internationally.  (Free Press Unlimited, PhotoVoice, SPACE, World Vision, United Response, AST, University of Luton, U-Turn Project, V&A Museum, Tate Britain, ICA London, SOAS, Brighton Photography Festival and more).

Ania was born in Poland, Chełmno near Toruń, and spent her teenage years in Zgierz, near Łódź, where she became the finalist in the National Competition of History of Art, embarked on a modelling career and acted in films in collaboration with the International Film School students in Łódź. She moved to London in 1992 at the age of 18, returned to Poland after a year to do a degree in History of Art at the Łódź University, but relocated permanently to London six months later. She worked in hospitality, as a fashion model, in TV and film making industries. She later completed a BA in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1998-2001), and MA in Fine Art Photography at the LCC, University of the Arts (2006-2007). After working at Magnum Photos for a year as an intern and the exhibitions department assistant, she dedicated her time fully to editorial and documentary photography before relocating her practice into the visual art field and the academia.