Born in Poznań, where she lives and works. PHD 1980, a professor since 1991 at the Poznań University of Arts – where she worked from 1972. Last 20 years she runs the Studio of Experimental Film and Performative Activities at the Department of Animation and Intermedia, and at Collegium Da Vincia Drawing Studio in the Graphic Arts programme. She works in various domains: painting objects, graphics, photography, installations, video, video performance, film, multimedia narration. She considers running the independent Galeria ON from 1979 to 1992 to have been an interesting experiment. Among her most memorable exhibitions were some of her earliest, The Art of Women (1980), Presence I (1987) and Presence III (1992), and her curatorial projects: Small Narratives 1994, Art Poznan (2005) and Urban Legend 2009. Art historian Paweł Leszkowicz has noted that Gustowska built the foundations for contemporary feminist art history in Poland. Leszkowicz stresses the importance of the technique she developed for giving photography and painting a sculptural material form, seen in such works as Relative Similarities and Dreams, where she liberated objects from geometric frames and gave them more “bodily shapes”.