KATARZYNA SZESZYCKA
Born 1983, Poland.

Katarzyna Szeszycka explores various media and environments. Her works are inspired and partly created during expeditions to volcanic areas (during her residency: at International Artists-in-Residence Program in Aso, Kumamoto, in Japan in 2014, mobile art residence Focus + Indonesia in Java/Bali, Indonesia in 2014 and during study visits in Iceland in 2016).
Her artistic practice is similar like practice experimentator. Szeszycka is looking for border of perception of visibility, darkness in her painting (series the empty landscapes 2015/19) and in bio-art works (white plants 2014/15) and a border of perception of silence and perception of space in intermedia works (The Model of Swarm 2019).

Katarzyna Szeszycka took part in residency programs and was a scholarship holder of several Polish programs for young creators. She is a laureate of the Grand Prix of the 24th Polish Contemporary Painting Festival – a special award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2012). She has completed over 20 individual exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

In 2015 she received PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk at the Faculty of Painting.
She is co-founder in UPSIDE ART Foundations.