Jens Dam Ziska is an assistant professor in aesthetics at the University of the Faroe Islands where he is also director of studies in creative arts. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and a teaching associate at the UCLA Department of Art. Jens holds a MFA degree in painting and drawing from UCLA as well as a DPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford. His current research explores the nature of visual thinking and the interface between science and visual art.

Visual art, aesthetics, epistemology

2025  Aesthetics, University of Faroe Islands

2024  Artistic research, University of Faroe Islands

2023  Invention: Contemporary Theories of Creativity, Imagination, and Creative Work, University of Faroe Islands

2023  Advanced Printmaking (TA), UCLA

2023  Advanced Drawing: Topics in Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Poetics of Opacity (TA), UCLA

2022  Teaching Assistant Training Practicum, UCLA Department of Art

2022  Drawing, UCLA Summer Art Institute (online)

2022  Advanced Printmaking (TA), UCLA

2022  Studio/Research Colloquium in Art, UCLA

2022  Beginning Painting (TA), UCLA

2021  Advanced Painting (TA), UCLA

2021  Theories of Creativity, University of the Faroe Islands

2020  Advanced Painting (TA), UCLA (online)

2020  Advanced Drawing (TA), UCLA (online)

2020  Beginning Painting (TA), UCLA

2019  Aesthetics, University of the Faroe Islands

2019  Perception and Representation, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2016-17  Introduction to Philosophy, Kambsdal College, Faroe Islands

2016  Aesthetics, University of the Faroe Islands

2014  Scientific Method and Research Ethics (TA), Stockholm University

2012  Knowledge & Reality (tutorials), University of Oxford

2012  General Philosophy (tutorials), University of Oxford

2011   Philosophy of Psychology and Neuroscience (tutorials), Stanford University Programme in Oxford

2011  Philosophy of Mind (tutorials), Stanford University Programme in Oxford

2010  Creativity: Philosophical Issues (tutorials), Stanford University Programme in Oxford

2009  Introduction to Logic (TA), University of Oxford

Jens’s paintings have been shown in venues such as the Nordic House in Tórshavn, The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, as well as the New Wight Gallery and The Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Gallery at UCLA. His work is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in the Faroe Islands as well as in private collections in the United States, Sweden, Denmark, France, and the Faroe Islands. See personal website for documentation of artwork.