Associate Professor of Art

• email:   martyna.matusiak@westliberty.edu
• website: martyna.matusiak.com
• office: Fine Arts 205
• phone: 304-336-8417

EDUCATION

(2020)         PhD candidate         Interdisciplinary Printmaking

the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art & Design, Wrocław, Poland

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)

EMPLOYMENT

08.2012-current         Associate Professor of Art

Printmaking, Drawing, Mixed Media, Art Appreciation,

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

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

(09. 2020)   10^th International Print Biennale Douro, Portugal

(02. 2020)     TBA, Gallery at Ton Pottery, Pittsburgh, PA (solo), USA

(10. 2019)   Heartland, 3 person show, Fitton Art Center, Hamilton, Ohio, USA

(07. 2019)    Second International Print Biennale Yerevan 2019, Yerevan, Armenia

(05. 2019)       Crosscurrents, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV, USA

(04. 2019)       The Dot Show, the Nutting Gallery, Wes Liberty University, USA Center,

(10. 2018)       Poe Show, Wheeling Artisan Center, Wheeling, WV, USA

(04. 2018)       Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibition, Hoyt Arts Center, New Castle, PA, USA

(03. 2018)      Colours of Motherhood II, 3 person show, Diamond Shop Gallery, Morgantown, WV, USA

(01. 2018)       60 Square Inches, Purdue University Gallery, West Lafayette, IN, USA

(01. 2018)       Tree Show, Nutting Gallery, WLU Art Faculty Exhibition, West Liberty University, WV, USA
(10. 2017)       Divergent Ink, International Juried Print Exhibition, Rubber City Prints, Akron, OH, USA

(06. 2017)       Best of West Virginia, Juried Art Exhibition, Tamarack, WV, USA

(03. 2017)       28th National Drawing & Print Exhibition, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore,

MD, USA

(06. 2016)       Standing in No Place: a new landscape of motherhood, Sweetwater Center for the

Arts, Sewickley PA, (solo), USA

(01. 2016)       Almost Level-West Virginia, WLU Faculty Exhibition, Nutting Gallery, WLU, USA

(10. 2015)       Kato #4, Group show, the Strasbourg Central Station, France

(09. 2015)       Expectation of Privacy, the Renke Art Center, 170 Qingchun Rd, Hangzhou, China

(03. 2015)       Printmaking Exhibition, Lee County Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, FL, USA

(01. 2015)       6 x 6 x 6, West Liberty University, Nutting Gallery ,West Liberty, WV, USA

(12. 2014)       Mixed Media Competition, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

(08. 2013)       AIR/HMC, The Barabas Villa Gallery, Budapest, Hungary,

(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, USA

(03.2013)       Trace + Gestures, Greymatter Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA

(01-02.2013)     Oddities, Faculty Exhibition, Nutting Gallery, West Liberty University, WV, USA

(05.2012)           The End, The Brew House Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

(02. 2012)         Our Daily Rite, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT, USA

(02. 2012)         Multiversity, University Museum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

(12.02.2011)     Mean, Median, Mode, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

(12.01.2011)     Emergence, Digital Exhibition, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia, USA

(08. 2011)          Martyna Matusiak & Meredith Miller, Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA,

USA

(07-08. 2011)     2.25 x 2.25 International Print Exchange, Oxbow Press Gallery, Reno, NV, USA

(05- 06. 2011)   9 x 12, Ferencovasi Gallery, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary

(2010)                 New Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

RESIDENCIES

(06.2013)                     Artist in Residence, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary

(08.2011-05.2012)     Artist in Residence, Distillery 6, Artist in Residence, Pittsburgh, PA

(07. 2011)                     Artist in Residence, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, USA

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 (04. ­­­2020)                  ’+’ Event Organizer, SGCI Conference, Puerto Rico

(03. 2019)               Mentor, SGC International, Dallas, TX, USA

(06. 2017)               Workshop Leader on Experimental image transfers & solar etching, Wyzsza Szkola

Techniczna, Katowice, Poland

(04. 2014)               Mentor, SGC International, San Francisco, CA, USA

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

(01. 2019)              Art Habens Art Review, Interview Publication, England

https://issuu.com/arthabens/docs/biennial.ed.vol.iii/56 

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