Nastazja Ciupa (b. 1991, Katowice)
Visual artist specializing in printmaking. She lives and works in Warsaw. She completed her diploma project in the Lithography Studio, with an additional diploma project in the Graphic Design in Advertising Studio, at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 2025, she received her PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her doctoral dissertation, The Identity of My Non-Place, was supervised by Prof. Błażej Ostoja Lniski. She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Studio of Lithography and Unique Publications, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Her artistic practice focuses primarily on lithography, which she approaches as a medium for reflecting on memory, space, landscape, and identity. She is interested in the process-based nature of printmaking and the concept of the open work, both in its formal and conceptual dimensions. Personal experiences, emotions, and relationships with places serve as points of departure for her work. Her practice also explores themes of emptiness, transience, and traces of memory embedded in space.
She is a 2026 recipient of the Młoda Polska scholarship programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and winner of the Main Prize of the 7th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland in 2022. She also received a distinction at the 3rd International Lithography Biennial in Belgrade and a Special Mention at the 5th International Mini Print Cantabria in 2022, a distinction from the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation in 2025, and a Certificate of Merit at the 12th All Women Artists’ Exhibition in Chandigarh in 2026.
Her works have been presented in more than 100 solo, group, and juried exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including in the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, India, Egypt, Armenia, Taiwan, and Japan. She regularly participates in international biennials, triennials, and projects dedicated to contemporary printmaking. She is a member of the INTERGRAFIA Association.