Ewa Monika Zebrowski was born in London, England.  She grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, graduated from Helen Bush School in Seattle, Washington, and obtained her B.A. from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

After a brief teaching career, Ms. Zebrowski began to work actively in the film industry in 1975.  She worked in both film production and marketing as well as organizing various film-related workshops and conferences in Canada and abroad until 1997 when she began her BFA in photography.

Ms. Zebrowski completed her BFA in Photography at Concordia University, Montréal in 2001, and in 2003 obtained her M.A. in Visual Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

While doing her B.A. Ms. Zebrowski received an Occidental International Fellowship to pursue research at the Polish Film School in Lodz, Poland.  In 1980 Ewa Zebrowski was awarded a Canada Council Short Term Grant that took her to Italy. In 1999 she was selected to participate in a Landscape Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2002 she received a grant from the Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Mediatiques, awarded by  UQAM and Concordia Universities.

Ms. Zebrowski has had ten solo shows:  Building the Arch (1998), A Landscape in Transformation (1999), le mois de la photo, Celebration of Place: Chateaufort Community Garden (2001), le mois de la photo, remembering & forgetting (2002), at the window (2003), remembering brodsky (2004), albergo (2005), vedute di venezia (2007), and most recently, UNRAVELING - the dress of  Jadwiga (2009). She has participated in numerous group shows in Canada and the United States including six shows in New York and two in San Francisco.

Her artist’s books can be found in the Special Collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, the National Library of Canada, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Brown University, Connecticut College, Columbia University, Lafayette College, McGill University, Middlebury College, Smith College, Texas Tech University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, the University of the South, Wellesley College, Yale University , the University of California at Berkeley, as well as in the collections of various private collectors in Canada, the United States and Italy. 

Both remembering brodsky and Poetry in the Landscape . The Robert Frost Trail  were featured in an exhibit of artist’s books, Beyond Words: Artists’ Books, at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee in November 2006.  tenuta di ricordi was introduced at an exhbition, livre.espce.objet, held in Montreal at the Design Space, Commissaires, in September 2009.

In June 2006, tanto tempo senza notizie di te, a lyrical six foot long photographic work, was added to the permanent collection of the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal and is currently part of their travelling exhibition De l’Ecriture.  In 2009 tempo perso was acquired by the Collection Loto-Quebec.

Ewa Monika Zebrowski was a featured guest at the Grazia Neri Gallery, Milan, Italy as part of the 5th Biennale Orizzonte Quebec organized by the Quebec Delegation in Rome in 2006.

Ms. Zebrowski  was invited to present her work at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland in March 2007 in conjunction with the symposium, The Architecture of the Book and at the University of Iowa in 2009.

In April 2007 she won an award for the best photo essay for Ode A Venice from the Quebec Magazine Association, les Grands Prix 2007 and in October 2009 she won two Grand Prix LUX for tenuta di ricordi and dresses without history awarded by CAPIC, the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication.

Ms. Zebrowski’s clients include the City of Montreal, the Cirque du Soleil, Eden Entertainment, as well as various publishers and magazines, including Bezige Bij (the Netherlands), Goose Lane Editions, McClelland & Stewart, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Les Editions de la Pleine Lune, Macmillan UK, XYZ Editeur, Elle Québec, Châtelaine, and Coup de Pouce. 

Her artistic work has been featured in publications including:  Geist, Shots, Fraction Magazine, Grafika, Photo District News, and Vie des Arts. As well as various blogs including tales of flight, Elizabeth  Avedon etc.

Ewa Zebrowski lives in Montréal with her husband and two sons. She is represented in Montreal by Art Mûr, a contemporary art gallery, and by Millennium Images in London, England.