Gosia Wojas is an artist working through sculpture, installation, moving image, and theory-as-form to reflect on the interlocing notions of materiality and performativity.
Her critical theory texts have been published in MATTER - Journal of New Materialist Research (University of Barcelona, 2023), Flat Journal (University of California, Los Angeles, 2022), and Material-i-ty (2021), a publication she also edited. She has participated in research conferences at the Research Institute Facta Ficta (Department of Comparative Studies of Civilization at the Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Siedlce University), Poland (2024); the Institute of Philosophy, at KU Leuven in Belgium (2023); and the World Ethical Data Forum (2022), among others.
Wojas’ work, which includes video, sculpture, site specific intervention, collective reading and performance, has been shown at the Arte Laguna, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy (2024), University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, and Phase gallery Los Angeles; Cyfroteka, Poland (2022), ONE Archives gallery in Hollywood (collab. with Emily Lucid), UCLA New Wight Biennial (2021), Fluxus festival at the MAK Center, CalArts Dance festival at Geffen Contemporary (2019), among others. Between the years of 2011-2021 Wojas founded Projekt Papier and The Absent Museum, and presented special projects at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2019), Łaźnia Art Center, Gdańsk, Poland (2018), Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles (2016), Souterrain gallery, at the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin, Germany (2012; hosted by Cara Benedetto), among others.
Gosia Wojas lives and works between Poland and Los Angeles, CA.
Her critical theory texts have been published in MATTER - Journal of New Materialist Research (University of Barcelona, 2023), Flat Journal (University of California, Los Angeles, 2022), and Material-i-ty (2021), a publication she also edited. She has participated in research conferences at the Research Institute Facta Ficta (Department of Comparative Studies of Civilization at the Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Siedlce University), Poland (2024); the Institute of Philosophy, at KU Leuven in Belgium (2023); and the World Ethical Data Forum (2022), among others.
Wojas’ work, which includes video, sculpture, site specific intervention, collective reading and performance, has been shown at the Arte Laguna, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy (2024), University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, and Phase gallery Los Angeles; Cyfroteka, Poland (2022), ONE Archives gallery in Hollywood (collab. with Emily Lucid), UCLA New Wight Biennial (2021), Fluxus festival at the MAK Center, CalArts Dance festival at Geffen Contemporary (2019), among others. Between the years of 2011-2021 Wojas founded Projekt Papier and The Absent Museum, and presented special projects at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2019), Łaźnia Art Center, Gdańsk, Poland (2018), Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles (2016), Souterrain gallery, at the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin, Germany (2012; hosted by Cara Benedetto), among others.
Gosia Wojas lives and works between Poland and Los Angeles, CA.
Education
MFA - Art
University of California, Irvine
2022
Critical Theory Emphasis
University of California, Irvine, School of Humanities
2022
BFA - Fine Art
California Institute of the Arts
2019
University of California, Irvine
2022
Critical Theory Emphasis
University of California, Irvine, School of Humanities
2022
BFA - Fine Art
California Institute of the Arts
2019
Recent
Soft syntax
Phase Gallery
Los Angeles, CA (solo)
05.03 - 31.2025
Venice Art Fair
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2024
Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
2024 Arte Laguna (group exhibition)
19th edition curator: Chiara Canali
Exhibition organized by Laura Gallon and MoCA, Venice, Italy
2024
Research Institute Facta Ficta, with the Department of Comparative Studies of Civilization at the Jagiellonian University
and the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Siedlce University, PL
Research Panel: Ciało (Body)
Paper: ‘Narracja cielesności (sztucznej) kobiety - mimetyczny „glitch" w materialności hiperkobiecych seksrobotów‘
Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media, Monograph Volume 2025 (upcoming)
2024
Phase Gallery
Los Angeles, CA (solo)
05.03 - 31.2025
Venice Art Fair
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2024
Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
2024 Arte Laguna (group exhibition)
19th edition curator: Chiara Canali
Exhibition organized by Laura Gallon and MoCA, Venice, Italy
2024
Research Institute Facta Ficta, with the Department of Comparative Studies of Civilization at the Jagiellonian University
and the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Siedlce University, PL
Research Panel: Ciało (Body)
Paper: ‘Narracja cielesności (sztucznej) kobiety - mimetyczny „glitch" w materialności hiperkobiecych seksrobotów‘
Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media, Monograph Volume 2025 (upcoming)
2024
Archive
MATTER. Journal of New Materialist Research
Vol. 8 (2023): 8TH ISSUE
ed. Monika Rogowska-Stangret
Essay: ‘The Infallible and the Specter - Manifesting (artificial) subjectification in female sex robots’
2023
Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium
Conference
Metamorphoses of Mimesis: Plasticity, Subjectivity and Transformation
Paper: ‘mimetic pathology, plasticity's humbling act - notes on AI and hyper feminine sex robots’
2023
Intimate Things
Phase Gallery (group)
Los Angeles, CA
12.03.22 - 01.07.2023
World Ethical Data Forum
Conference
Talk: ‘Teaching Feminism to Sex Robots’
2022
Complex systems
UAG gallery (solo)
University of California, Irvine, CA
04.23 - 05.07.2022
Touching-Touched
Essay published in journal for theoretical and critical texts on emerging media in the arts
FlatJournal - Issue 2
2022
Material-i-ty / Material-and-you
Small volume book with essay contributions by
Cara Benedetto, Farrah Karapetian and Anthony Leslie
publ. ed. Gosia Wojas
2021
CARE AS DISCIPLINE
Workshop
Cal State Univerity Long Beach
manifesto writing workshops (Collab. w/ A.Baginski and Silvi Naçi)
01.24 & 01.31.2021
HOPE AS DISCIPLINE
Workshop
UCLA Center for Near Easter Studies
hosted by New Wight Biennial
manifesto writing workshops (Collab. w/ A.Baginski and Silvi Naçi)
10.11 & 10.25.2020
The Absent Museum
Presentation and Talk: Madin Lopez, ProjectQ (curatorial)
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2019
Symptomatic Eruptions of the Avant Garde
Martine Syms, Stanya Kahn, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Kim Schoen
Łaźnia Contemporary Art Center (curatorial)
Gdańsk, PL
2018
Against the Grain: experimental films by Polish women artists
Women’s Center for Creative Work (curatorial)
discussion with Aniko Imre and Eve Oishi
Los Angeles, CA
2016
Projekt Papier
Souterrain gallery, Hoffmann Collection (curatorial)
Berlin-Mitte, Germany
Hosted by Cara Benedetto
2012
Vol. 8 (2023): 8TH ISSUE
ed. Monika Rogowska-Stangret
Essay: ‘The Infallible and the Specter - Manifesting (artificial) subjectification in female sex robots’
2023
Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium
Conference
Metamorphoses of Mimesis: Plasticity, Subjectivity and Transformation
Paper: ‘mimetic pathology, plasticity's humbling act - notes on AI and hyper feminine sex robots’
2023
Intimate Things
Phase Gallery (group)
Los Angeles, CA
12.03.22 - 01.07.2023
World Ethical Data Forum
Conference
Talk: ‘Teaching Feminism to Sex Robots’
2022
Complex systems
UAG gallery (solo)
University of California, Irvine, CA
04.23 - 05.07.2022
Touching-Touched
Essay published in journal for theoretical and critical texts on emerging media in the arts
FlatJournal - Issue 2
2022
Material-i-ty / Material-and-you
Small volume book with essay contributions by
Cara Benedetto, Farrah Karapetian and Anthony Leslie
publ. ed. Gosia Wojas
2021
CARE AS DISCIPLINE
Workshop
Cal State Univerity Long Beach
manifesto writing workshops (Collab. w/ A.Baginski and Silvi Naçi)
01.24 & 01.31.2021
HOPE AS DISCIPLINE
Workshop
UCLA Center for Near Easter Studies
hosted by New Wight Biennial
manifesto writing workshops (Collab. w/ A.Baginski and Silvi Naçi)
10.11 & 10.25.2020
The Absent Museum
Presentation and Talk: Madin Lopez, ProjectQ (curatorial)
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2019
Symptomatic Eruptions of the Avant Garde
Martine Syms, Stanya Kahn, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Kim Schoen
Łaźnia Contemporary Art Center (curatorial)
Gdańsk, PL
2018
Against the Grain: experimental films by Polish women artists
Women’s Center for Creative Work (curatorial)
discussion with Aniko Imre and Eve Oishi
Los Angeles, CA
2016
Projekt Papier
Souterrain gallery, Hoffmann Collection (curatorial)
Berlin-Mitte, Germany
Hosted by Cara Benedetto
2012
Texts
‘Narracja cielesności (sztucznej) kobiety - mimetyczny ‘glitch’ w materialności hiperkobiecych seksrobotów‘
Facta Ficta - Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media
Monograph Volume
(upcoming)
2025
‘The Infallible and the Specter - Manifesting (artificial) subjectification in female sex robots’
MATTER. Journal of New Materialist Research
University of Barcelona
Vol. 8 (2023): 8TH ISSUE
ed. Monika Rogowska-Stangret
2023
‘Touching Touched’
Flat Journal Issue 2
UCLA Dept. of Design, Arts & Media
2022
Material-i-ty
Publication
Essays by Cara Benedetto, Farrah Karapetian and Anthony Leslie. Foreword by Gosia Wojas
Ed. Gosia Wojas.
Design by Silvi Naçi.
English. ed. 100. Sold Out.
Published with partial support from CalArts.
2021
Facta Ficta - Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media
Monograph Volume
(upcoming)
2025
‘The Infallible and the Specter - Manifesting (artificial) subjectification in female sex robots’
MATTER. Journal of New Materialist Research
University of Barcelona
Vol. 8 (2023): 8TH ISSUE
ed. Monika Rogowska-Stangret
2023
‘Touching Touched’
Flat Journal Issue 2
UCLA Dept. of Design, Arts & Media
2022
Material-i-ty
Publication
Essays by Cara Benedetto, Farrah Karapetian and Anthony Leslie. Foreword by Gosia Wojas
Ed. Gosia Wojas.
Design by Silvi Naçi.
English. ed. 100. Sold Out.
Published with partial support from CalArts.
2021