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Michelle Tylicki is an activist and interdisciplinary artist whose subversive work challenges systems of power, amplifies marginalized voices, and envisions a lush, just future of planetary kinship.

Michelle Tylicki has contributed to local, national and international campaigns focusing on radical system change. Her work promotes climate justice, animal rights, food sovereignty, racial justice, disability rights, sex work decrim, the international ban of high carbon advertising and ending blasphemy laws.
She often takes part in direct action on the frontlines of these movements and skill-shares creative tools of resistance. In her art, Tylicki creates subversive graphic design critiquing advertising (subvertising), illustration and short films on creative direct action. She explores physical theatre, producing and directing a climate-clown wrestling troupe, and installations like the antifascist catapult and the fridge full of 'humanely slaughtered human meat'.
Born in NYC, USA, 1985 to Polish immigrants, Michelle Tylicki is currently based between London and Gdańsk.

Tylicki studied experimental film at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic (2007) and graduated with a Master of Arts degree from ASP Gdańsk, Poland (2010). 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026

N.I.N.A. Festival, Milan & Rome

2026

Emotional Economy, Everybody Lives Gallery, London

2025

The Apocalypse Museum, Greenpeace Fields, Glastonbury festival

2025

Apartheid Apartments, Art Bomb Gallery, Doncaster

2024

Animal Liberation Exhibition, Athens

2024

Shangri-la, Glastonbury Festival

2023

DAZZLE installation at Artivism conference, Kunstquartiere Bethanien, Berlin

2023

Rhizosphere projection art at Greenpeace Field, Glasto

2023

Revolting Artists, Weymouth

2022

Werbepause - The Art of Subvertising Kunstaum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin

2020

Femme Daemonium, Hackney Baths, London

2019

Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome

2019

Resistance Exhibition, Glastonbury Festival

2019

Art the Arms Fair & Stop The Arms Fair Blockade, London

2019

Temporary Autonomous Arts, London

2017

Art the Arms Fair & Stop The Arms Fair Blockade, London

2014

Femme Fierce, London

2014

Femme Fierce, London

2011

Occupy London

GUEST SPEAKER / WORKSHOP

2026

University of Applied Arts, Vienna

2026

Queen Mary University, London

2025

Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg

2025

Metamorfosis Festival, Barcelona

2025

Stop The Arms Fair Peace Camp, London

2025

The Apocalypse Museum, Glastonbury Festival

2024

Creatives for Climate Summit, Lisbon

2024

Ban Fossil Ads Conference, Brussels

2024

Centro de Cultura Libertária, Lisbon

2023

Ban Fossil Ads Conference, Amsterdam

2023

Artivism Conference, Berlin

2021

Research For Action, Online

2020

Greenpeace UK, Online

2019

The Art of Activism: 1000 Days of Protest, London

2019

Museum Of Contemporary Art in Rome

2019

The World Transformed, Brighton

2019

Friends Of The Earth, London

2018

Amnesty International, London

2018

Temporary Autonomous Arts, London