Education
2010-2012, Royal College of Art London, MA Photography
2004-2007, University of Wales Newport, first class BA Honours in Documentary Photography
2003, International People’s College, Ellsinore, Denmark
Solo exhibitions
2022 Without apparatus, Reid Gallery Corridor, Glasgow School of Art
2022 ON/OFF Gallery, Milan, Italy
2019 In this hollow valley, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 Sdraiati accanto a me, Condominio Fotografico Associzione Culturale, Modica, Italy
2017 Repertoire, 22-channel screen works, Treshold artspace/Perth Concert Hall, Perth
2016 Reservoir, Rough Print Gallery, London
Selected group exhibitions
2024
Access to (In)Justice, Manchester Museum, Manchester, England
2019
Altered States, Kunsthalle Exnergasse WUK, Vienna, Austria
2018
Narratives Alongside Him, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
2017
Platform Festival, Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland
When the Light Shifts, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, Scotland
2016
From North to South, SI Fest Off, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
Lion, Touchstone, Eranda Studio, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
2015
Uncertain States Open 2015, Four Corners Gallery, London, England
RCA Secret, London and Dubai
2014
SSA 2014, National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2013
Artefacts, The Rag Factory, London, England
FreshFaced + WildEyed, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
Belfast Photo Festival, 2013 Open Submission, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2012
Heaven to Earth, Fringe Photo Biennale, Bongsan Culture Centre, Daegu, South Korea
GROUP 2012, WW Gallery, London, England
Show RCA, Testbed 2, Battersea, London, England
Seeing for Others, WORK Gallery, London, England
2011
Constance Fairness Foundation Prize Exhibition, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery RCA, London
AkzoNobel Photography Award 2011, Entrance Gallery RCA, London, England
Altitude Plus 1000, Festival de photographie de montagne, Rossiniere, Switzerland
Construct, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, England
2010
RCA Secret, London, England
2007
Fragments. Candid Arts Trust, London
2006
Visioni Variabli. Basilica di Sant’Alessandro, Fiesole, Italy
Selected publications
Without Apparatus, exhibition publication, text by Prof. Johnny Rodger, Relief Press, London 2020
Intestate, The Drouth, Guest Artist, 2020
What Is To Be Considered Human by Agne Narusyte (review of In this hollow valley solo show), photography
magazine Fotografija, Lithuania. April 2019
Source Photographic Review Issue 92 Winter 2017, text by Daniel Jewesbury, pp.30-39, Belfast
FK Magazine, Riga, Latvia. 2016
The Drouth Issue 54: Interstices, text by Prof. Johnny Rodger, Glasgow. Winter/Spring 2016
Uncertain States Broadsheet, London. 2015
Seeing for others, Black Dog Publishing, London. 2012
Where is the line? Photographic representation of disputed territories and the other, VDMVerlag. 2009
Coming Up Fast, Royal Photographic Society Journal. 2007
Artist commissions and residencies
2017 Repertoire, Horsecross Arts/Perth Theatre Archives, Perth
2016 Polski, Abbeyhill Primary School, Edinburgh
2012 Beyond Space, Mimar Sinar University, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 High Altitude, Rossiniere, Switzerland
Selected awards, programmes & scholarships
The Arts Foundation Fellowship, nominated. 2018
RSA Morton Award, shortlisted. 2017
Dummy Award Kassel, 8.FotoBookFestival Kassel, Germany, shortlisted. 2016
Self Publish Riga, Riga Photomonth, Latvia, shortlisted. 2016
The Source-Cord Prize, shortlisted. 2014
The Photographers’ Gallery Award, winner, London. 2012
Constance Fairness Foundation Prize, winner, London. 2011
Royal College of Art Study Bursary, London. 2010-2012
Exchange photography program with Studio Maragoni, Florence, Italy. 2006
Reginald Salisbury Photographic Bursary, University of Wales Newport College. 2006
Acknowledgements
Jolanta Dolewska’s projects have been made possible by institutional and financial support by: Open Fund Creative Scotland (2022), Bridging Bursary Creative Scotland (2020), The Hope Scott Trust (2019), The Richard and Siobhan Coward Foundation (2019), Adam Mickiewicz Institute (2019), Lithuanian Photographers Association/ Lithuanian Council of Culture (2018).