Mela graduated in 2011 from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, having previously studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. Mela is the winner of the Cass Art Painting Prize 2011. Polish-born, she now lives and works in East London. Mela exhibited in solo and group shows, art fairs, and collaborated in art projects in the UK, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Germany, Romania, and the Netherlands.
Mela collaborates with Maria Stenfors.
SOLO SHOWS
2017
Women Don't Paint Very Well / The Concept Space / London
2016
Liaisons / Century Club / London
Mela Yerka / Kamarade / Stockholm
2014
And the — the Surface is Fine and Powdery / Maria Stenfors / London
2013
What Red Blue is in? / Maria Stenfors / London
GROUP SHOWS
2017
The Drawing Show / The Workers' Cafe / London
2015
panoRama / Opere Scelte / Turin
Summer Mix / Turps Gallery / London
Albin Looström and Mela Yerka / Kamarade / Falsterbo, Sweden
2014
part is fame [art as game] / Platforma Space / Bucharest
Furnishings / Sebright House, Hackney / London
Art & Gryl / Chomiczowka City Gardens / Warsaw
part is fame [art as game] / Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 / Vienna
2013
Nothing About Trees / Elthorne Studios / London
2012
Chase of Grace / Maria Stenfors / London
2011
Cross Over / CSM Lethaby Gallery / London
MA Fine Art final show / CSM Charins Cross / London
The New Pretenders / Oxo Tower Wharf / London
2010
Wild Life / We Are Arts Gallery / London
UAL Art Salon / The Woodmill, Neckinger Depot / London
Some You Win, Some Deleuze / Collective, Camden / London
2009
Wernix / Teatr Nowy / Warsaw
Group show / The Theatre Academy / Warsaw
Visual Structures Class / Young Artists’ Gallery / Warsaw
J. Modzelewski and the Students / Kierat 1 / Szczecin, Poland
2008
Kunstbrücke2 / Berlin
Mazovia Art Festival / Centre for Contemporary Art / Radom, Poland
Annual Show / Academy of Fine Arts / Warsaw
2007
J. Modzelewski’s Class No. 66 / Young Artists’ Gallery / Warsaw
M. Sapetto’s Class No. 65 / Young Artists’ Gallery / Warsaw
Group show / Gallery 011 / Torun, Poland
ART FAIRS
2015
Art Rotterdam / Maria Stenfors
London Art Fair / Maria Stenfors
2014
Manchester Contemporary / Maria Stenfors
2013
Art13 London / Maria Stenfors
REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, AND WRITING
C-print / 2016 / by Mela Yerka
Corridor / 2014 / by Nicholas Blincoe
Artlyst / 2014 / by Paul Carey-Kent
Glass Magazine / 2013 / by Cristina Bogdan
Londonist / 2013 / by Tabish Khan
Art-Corpus / 2013 / by Anna McNay
Artlyst / 2013 / by Paul Carey-Kent
Glass Magazine / 2013 / by Cristina Bogdan
Duzy Format / 2009 / by Wlodzimierz Kalicki
AWARDS
Cass Art Painting Prize 2011
EDUCATION
2009–2011
MA Fine Art / Central Saint Martins / London
2005–2010
MA Painting / Academy of Fine Arts / Warsaw