commercial clients
WORK AND RESIDENCIES
2023
photography teacher ISSOS, Yale University, New Haven, USA
creating a curriculum and teaching international youth at a summer school programme
imPACT artist placement Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
3-month bursary programme with workshops and access to photographic facilities of the gallery
2015 - PRESENT
multidisciplinary artist and photographer INTERNATIONAL
an artistic practice and photographic services
2018 - 2022
CO-FOUNDER & ART CURATOR VAVA ART COLLECTIVE
an international curatorial initiative
education
2018-2021
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
2nd year direct entry, studied under Margaret Salmon, Lesley Punton, John Shankie
2017-2018
BA (Hons) Photography University of the Arts London, London, UK
1st year only, studied under Shizuka Yokomizo, Duncan Wooldridge, Aliki Braine, Bernd Behr
2016-2017
Photography Diploma Akademia Fotografii, Kraków, Poland
studied under A. Szuscik, T. Nogalski, J. Pawlowska, W. Wilczyk, J. Bors, M. Luzar
2014-2016
Fine Art Preparation Course Plastykon, Kraków, Poland
screenings
2022
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Hawick, SCOTLAND
piece: “gigue” (2:01), dir. Ocean Teal (previously known as Kasia Tym)
2021
Paris Film Festival Paris, France
London Shorts Film Festival LONDON, ENGLAND
Toronto Alternative Film Festival TORONTO, Canada
Alternative Degree Show Festival: video art Swg3, gLASGOW, SCOTLAND
piece: “gigue” (2:01), dir. Ocean Teal
2020
Centre for Contemporary Arts GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
group video art screening
piece: “gigue” (2:01), dir. Ocean Teal
exhibitions
2021
GSA Graduate Degree Show Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
piece: “Quarantine Sights”
2020
Goose Chase studio pavilion at house for an Art Lover, Glasgow, UK
show under group curation, piece: “there is no place for fart jokes in the art world”
2019
IMG_021 presents: 1. Grab the beehive 2. Cut it in half 3. Lick the honey
WASPS Studios, 77 Hanson St, Glasgow, UK group show
curator: Ocean Teal, piece: “Is it okay to be fat?”
2018
christmas show Lillie Art Gallery Milngavie, UK
curator: Andrea O’Neill, piece: “in search for”
featured work
2021
2020
Jul 28th, Photographic Museum of Humanity
“PHmuseum Mobile Photography Prize”
May 2nd, Insula Magazine
“Postcards from Isolation”
artist books | publications
2021
“Quarantine Sights”
artist book by Ocean Teal (pen name Kasia Tym)
2020
“there is no place for fart jokes in the art world”
artist book, part of an installation by Ocean Teal (pen name Bachelor O’Fart)
2018
Unsettled Magazine
cover image, editor: Irene Chirita
awards | nominations
2021
London Shorts Film Festival best student short (NOMINATION)
Toronto Alternative Film Festival best art film (SEMI-FINALIST)
piece: “gigue” (2:01), dir. Ocean Teal (previously known as Kasia Tym)
Vava art collective
an international curatorial initiative
co-founder | art curator
shows
2022
Connection The cowgirl gallery, Malmö, Sweden
11th March - 30th March
supported by: The Cowgirl Gallery City of Malmö | UNG Media Sverige
2019
clash vol 1. SouthBlock, Glasgow, UK
15th March - 23rd March
supported by: Wasps_ Studios | SouthBlock Glasgow | GSA Student’s Association | Nice’n’Sleazy