Martyna Matusiak
Martyna and Olek
Martyna Matusiak
Assistant Professor of Art
office: Media Arts Center – 407
phone:304-3368417
Martyna Matusiak joined the art faculty of West Liberty University in August 2012. Prior to that, she taught printmaking, drawing, and mixed media courses at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. At WLU she teaches printmaking, silkscreen, and advance drawing. Her own artistic practice combines all of the above mentioned mediums.
She grew up in Knurów, Poland in a communistic multifamily apartment building surrounded by hundreds of multifamily buildings identical in structure. Straight lines, sharp angles, lack of color, and lack of green space, in addition to the small mining city rhythm, influenced her point of view and sensitivity. She often wonders if that’s why her own art is often monochromatic and uses repetition—at least for now.
Every semester she is eager to meet her new students, when after the first demonstration of a specific technique in the cherished print lab, a student says: “Wow! That’s like magic!” her day is truly made, because she also thinks that way. Students keep surprising her with amazing work and creative ideas, and she always strives to get the best out of each of them.
She recently became a mama to a wonderful boy, Olek. He pretty much changed her life. He is her new companion in the studio, and in life. He is the best thing ever happened to her, and she will let you know about it, as she can really talk about him a lot.
EDUCATION
2010 M.F.A Major: Drawing / Minor: Print Media & Video
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
2007 M.A University of Opole, Poland
Art Education (specialization: Multimedia/Painting)
2003-2004 Adam Mickiewicz University at Kalisz, Poland
Art Education (30 transfer credits)
Exhibition Record
11-12.2013 Trace + Gestures, Rose Netzorg and James Wilfrid Kerr Gallery
Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Gwen Frostic School of Art,
Western Michigan University, MI
01-02.2013 Oddities, Faculty Exhibition, Nutting Gallery, West Liberty University, WV
05.2012 The End, The Brew House Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
02. 2012 Our Daily Rite, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
02. 2012 Multiversity
University Museum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA
12.02.2011 Mean, Median, Mode
Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
12.01.2011 Emergence
Digital Exhibition, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia
08.2011 Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg PA (solo)
07-08. 2011 22.25 x 2.25 International Print Exchange
Oxbow Press Gallery, Reno, NV
05- 06. 2011 9 x 12, Ferencovasi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Exhibition organized by Hungarian Multicultural Center
2010 New Juried Visual Art Exhibition,
Three Rivers Arts Festival,Pittsburgh, PA
2010 74th Annual Scholarship Art, Music and Tea Reception,
The Butler Institute of American Art, Butler North, OH
2009 Fortunately, M.F.A Thesis Exhibition,
Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Video Shorts, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Postcard from the Edge, Metro Picture Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
2008 Calm Americans, ArtWorks, Johnstown, PA
Process, Hybrids, Synthesis, Graduate Student Exhibition,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
2007 Master Thesis Exhibition, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland
2006 Go Figure, Panza Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
Advanced Drawing and Graduate Work, Heart Box Gallery, Pittsburg, PA.
2005 Holiday Exhibition, Annex of Contemporary Gallery of Art, Opole,
Poland
2004 In Progress, Old Paper Factory, Ostrowek, Poland
RESIDENCIES
08.2011-05.2012 Distillery 6, Artist in Residence, Pittsburgh, PA
07. 2011 Artist’s Summer Residency, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, USA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
08.2012-current Assistant Professor of Art
Printmaking, Drawing
West Liberty University, West Liberty, WV
08.2011-08.2012 Assistant Professor of Art
Color 2-D Design, Figure Drawing, Fundamentals of Drawing,
Advanced Mixed Media,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
08.2010- 05. 2011 Adjunct faculty
Print Media
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
03. 2009 -05.2010 Artist’s Assistant for Nayda Collazo—Llorens
03. 2009-09.2010 Artist’s Assistant for Patricia Villalobos- Echeverria
08.2007-05.2009 Graduate Assistant in Print Media, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
08.2007-05.2009 Graduate Assistant in Drawing, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
2006-2007 Art Instructor , Crisis Intervention Center, Opole, Poland
AWARDS AND HONORS
2009 Indiana University Faculty’s Award
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
2005 Sponsor Award
Annex BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland
PUBLICATIONS
2008 New Growth Arts Review
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Magazine for the Arts, Indiana, PA, USA
2007 Master Thesis Exhibition, Catalog Published, University of Opole, Poland
2004 24 Mini Print International of Cadaques, Spain, p.51
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Robert Isenberg, “At the PCA, a revue of animation shorts explores the form with weirdness and humor”, Pittsburgh City Paper, June 11, 2009
GUEST LECTURES
2008 Polish Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY, USA
