Veronika Szkudlarek

vszkudlarek@ocadu.ca
Associate Professor, Tenured
Faculty of Art
Contemporary Painting
Experimental Animation
Virtual & Augmented Reality : Painting
Sculpting & Animating
Virtual Materiality
Feminist Cultural Theory
Art History and Contemporary Art Theory
New Media Studies
contemporary art

Szkudlarek’s experimental art practice is rooted in contemporary painting and experimental animation, where material processes and abstraction become sites for disruption and inquiry. The physical qualities of paint—its imperfections, clumps, gestures, and marks—are central to her explorations, functioning as entropic disruptions that resist control and rely on intuition and performance. Her work situates experimental animation & contemporary painting as an evolving field of intervention, where experimentation with materials and forms becomes a critical method of research.

Szkudlarek's work has been exhibited at Queens Museum, KCAI: Centre for Contemporary Practices, presented at NSCAD, Columbia University, VRTO, the FATE Biennale, American British Academy in Muscat and published in the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery. The New York Times art-critic Ken Johnson included Veronika's work in the Pratt Symposium. Gary Michael Dault, art critic for The Globe and Mail wrote “artist Veronika Szkudlarek has already chalked up enough experiences to fuel a dozen careers in painting”. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Merit Award from Pratt Institute, The Canada Foundation for Innovation Grant, OCADU Faculty of Art Teaching Award, several 2021 E-Campus Ontario grants, a 2019 Ontario Trillium Foundation Seed Grant, shortlisted for the BLG Equity award and the Price Award for Excellence in Teaching. 

She received her Master of Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting from Pratt Institute in NYC, and a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal.

Szkudlarek is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art at OCADU and an Associate Graduate Faculty Member at Ontario Tech University.