2017-2022 MFA in Photography, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2009-2012 BA in Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
2008-2010 Warsaw School of Photography, Warsaw, Poland
Selected solo exhibitions:
2023 Upiór and Guests, La Bande Vidéo, Québec City, Canada
2023 Diary, York Vitrines FOFA Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2022 Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh At, MFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2017 Slightly Erotic Ballads, curated by Fundacja Nośna, Galeria Opcja, Cracow, Poland
Selected film festivals:
BEDROCK, (2025), 102 min, Canada - writer, director
2025 Berlinale, Panorama Dokumente, Nominations: Best Documentary, Berlin, Germany
2025 DOXA FF, Nominations: Colin Low Award, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2025 Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF, Award: Best Polish Film, Warsaw, Poland
2025 Cinepolitica FF, Official Selection, Bucharest, Romania
2025 MDOC FF, International Competition, Melgaco, Portugal
2025 Polish FF, Official Selection, Gdynia, Poland
2025 Opolskie Lamy FF, National Competition, Opole, Poland
2025 Festival Nouveau Cinema, International Competition, Montréal, QC, Canada
2025 Free Zone FF, Official Selection, Belgrade, Serbia
2025 Ekran Polish FF, Special Mention: Best Documentary, Toronto, ON, Canada
2025 Camerimage, Official Selection, Toruń, Poland
2026 Tournai Ramdam, International competition, Tournai, Belgium
2026 DocPoint, Official Selection, Helsinki, Finland
2025 Two Riversides FF, Official Selection, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
2026 Kingston FF, National competition, Kingston, Canada
2026 DocUtah FF, International Competition, St. George, Utah, USA
2026 Junction North IFF, Sudbury, Canada
2026 Festival Cinéma du Monde, Sherbrooke, Canada
2026 Berlin Human Rights FF, International Competition, Berlin, Germany
2026 RVQC, Nomination: PRIX PIERRE-ET-YOLANDE-PERRAULT, Montréal, Canada
2026 ZagrebDox FF, Official Selection, Zagreb, Croatia
2026 Niesse Nysa Nisa FF, Official Selection, Germany / Poland / Czechia
VAMPIRES, IT’S NOTHING TO LAUGH AT, (2003), 36 min, Canada - writer, director, DP, editor
2023 Visions du Réel, Special Mention: International Short Competition, Nyon, Switzerland
2023 Short Waves Film Festival, International Competition, Poznań, Poland
2023 Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, National Short Film Competition, Montréal, QC, Canada
2023 DMZ DOCS International Film Festival, Official Selection, Goyang-si, South Korea
2023 30_____70 DOC FEST, International Competition, Lago, Italy
2024 Diffusions Film Festival, Official Selection, Toronto, ON, Canada
2024 Pariscience Film Festival, Official Selection, Paris, France
2024 InScience Film Festival, International Competition, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2025 Guerrilla Collective, Special Screening: Developing the Vanished, Beijing, China
Selected group exhibitions:
2025 vert soleil green sun, AXENÉO7, Gatineau, Canada
2025 Cornucopia, Caravansérail, Rimouski, Canada
2025 Strefy LGBT+, curated by Gabi Skrzypczak and Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmołajew, Galeria
Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
2023 Have You Ever Seen a Ghost? Camp Greaves DMZ Art, Goyang-si, Korea
2023 Tender Debauchery, curated by Agnieszka Rajzacher, lokal_30, Warsaw, Poland
2023 Launch Exhibition of the Art Volt Collection, Le Livart, Montreal, Canada
2022 Discomfort of Evening, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Zachęta National Gallery,
Warsaw, Poland
2021 Poganki / Heathens, lokal_30, curated by Agnieszka Rayzacher, Warsaw, Poland
2020 The Kitchen, curated by Polana Institute, The Clay, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Poland
2019 La présence de l’absence, curated by Virginie Jourdain, Veronique Boilard, Never Apart,
Montreal, Canada
2018 Queer Gaze From Poland: Portrait of Love and Desire, curated by Grażyna Siedlecka,
Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
Selected Residencies:
2026 Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada
2025 - 2026 FOFA Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2024 AXENÉO7, Gatineau, Canada
2022 VU Photo, Québec City, Canada
2019 Québec Gay Archives, Montreal, Canada
Selected conferences:
2026 Forum For Dialogue Conference, Falenty, Poland
2025 CRITS Conference: Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias, Élisabeth-Bruyère Social Innovation School, Gatineau, Canada
2024 International Conference of Young Folklorists: Dark Side of Folklore, The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 Living a Feminist Life - Otwarte Seminarium Siostrzano-Piknikowe, Zachęta National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
2020 15th Feminist Seminar: “The Spirit of Otherness. Artists and Sexual Minorities”, lokal_30, Poland
2019 Regarding Uncertainty Conference, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Montreal, Canada
Selected grants and awards:
2025 CALQ Travel Grant - Bedrock
2025 Centre Prim: Aide à la création - Pologne-en-Québec
2024 Peter S. Reeds Foundation Grant - Bedrock
2024 SODEC, Post-production Grant - Bedrock
2024 Catapult Momentum Post-production Grant - Bedrock
2024 CAC Production Grant - vert soleil / green sun
2024 CAM Production Grant - vert soleil / green sun
2023 Award: RIDM Best Rough Cut Pitch - Bedrock
2023 CALQ Acquisition and Marketing Grant
2023 CALQ Travel Grant - Vampires, It’s Nothing To Laugh at
2022 CAC Explore and Create Grant - Pologne-en-Québec
2022 Nomination: The Whickers Award - Bedrock
2022 Telefilm Production Grant - Bedrock
2022 CALQ Production Grant - Bedrock
2022 Catapult Film Fund Development grant - Bedrock
2021 CALQ Travel Grant - Diary
2021 Telefilm Development Grant - Bedrock
2021 Special Mention: TIFF Open Photography Competition, Wrocław, Poland - Diary
2018 Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS)
Collections:
Art Volt Collection, Montreal, Canada
Vithèque, Videographe’s Collection, Montreal, Canada
Private Collection, Vancouver, Canada
Private Collection, Montreal, Canada
Private Collection, Warsaw Poland
Selected Press:
2026 Bedrock en couverture, Séquences la revue de cinéma, nr. 346
2026 Visites: vert soleil green sun (AXENÉO7, Gatineau), exhibition review by Rose de la Riva, Vie des arts
2026 Bedrock: la zone d’intérêt… , film review by Stéphane Baillargeon, Le Devoir
2026 Critique: Bedrock, film review by Elijah Baron, 24 images
2025 Haunts the Present: Kinga Michalska on Connecting the Holocaust With Poland’s Migrant Crisis in ‘Bedrock’, interview by Sonya Vseliubska, ida Documentary magazine
2025 Fondations, film review by Laurence Perron, Revue Liberté
2025 ‘Bedrock’ Goes Face to Face With People Living on Holocaust Sites in Poland, film review by Grorg
Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter
2025 “La sutileza y el impacto”, film review by Valentina Soto, Caligari Magazine
2025 Podziemia, recenzja filmu Pod Powierzchnią, film review by Klara Cykorz, Filmweb
2023 ENTREVISTA A KINGA MICHALSKA, DIRECTORA DE VAMPIRES, IT’S NOTHING TO LAUGH AT,interview by Mauro Luasievic, Caligari Revista
2023 To nie jest grzech powiedzieć twoja prawda, interview by Ewa Wziętek, Szum Magazyn
2021 Against Proof, essay by Lan “Florence” Yee, MAWA