Mikołaj Tomczak (b. 2002) is a visual artist specializing in photography. He received his MFA in Photography from the Academy of Art in Szczecin in 2026. His artistic practice engages with the peripheries in the broad sense - from physical spaces to ideas or relations. He works with found and personal histories, exploring memory, existence, chance, knowledge, the unknown, and the relationship between humans and nature. Working primarily with photography and installation, he places particular emphasis on exhibition narratives and accompanying texts that situate often abstract works within a conceptual framework.
Selected awards:
Grand Press Photo, Young Poland, I prize, 2022
London Photography Awards, Street (student), Golden Award, 2023
New York Photography Awards, Street (student), Honorable mention, 2023
Budapest International Photography Awards, Street (student), Honorable mention, 2023
Sposoby widzenia, BOK, Białystok, Poland, Honorable menton, 2024
Fine Art Photography Awards, (student) Honorable Mention, 2025
Młoda Fotografia, Wrocław, Poland, Laureate, 2026
Selected exhibitions:
Rotterdam Photo Festival 2024, solo exhibition
Sounds of Identity, ZONA Gallery, Szczecin, Poland, solo exhibition 2023
"In the meantime", Outdoors exhibition, Fotobus Society, Hannover, Germany, 2025
„Próba Generalna”, MOS, Gorzow, Poland, group exhibition 2023
Fei Arts Club, Photography pop-up exhibition, London, United Kingdom, 24.04.2025
„Mit dem Bauch zuhoren”, Galilakirche, Berlin, Germany, group exhibition 2024
„Max Bohl”, Neukollner Salon, Berlin, Germany, group exhibition, 2023
„Fortel”, ZONA Gallery, Szczecin, Poland, exhibition of a collective, 2023
„Poniżej 0”, Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland, exhibition of a collective, 2024
„Tides Of Change”, Dereal Digital Magazine, curated online collection, 2024
„Zanik spojrzenia”, OS17 Gallery, Szczecin, Poland, group exhibition, 2024
"Inny wyraz", ZONA Gallery, Szczecin, group exhibition, 2025
„We can’t build what we can’t imagine”, Museum of Contemporary Art in Szczecin, group exhibition, Poland, 2025/26
„We can’t build what we can’t imagine”, Galeria EL, Elbląg, group exhibition, Poland, 2026
"Transformations", Centrala Gallery, group exhibition, Poznań, Poland, 19.08-17.09.2026