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Kasia Ozga

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New Blood

published on : September 9, 2024
New Blood, Digital Photograph, July 2024. Image taken on the corner of Washington St. and Bridge St. in Eden, NC during an artist residency with the Eden Summer Institute produced by Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques.

Droit au Mur

published on : July 1, 2024
Kasia Ozga, Droit au Mur, Digital Photograph, Nocé, France, 2024.

Half

published on : June 3, 2024
Kasia Ozga, Half, Digital Photograph, United Methodist Church, Franklinville, NC, May 2024.
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Biography

Kasia Ozga is a Polish French American sculptor and installation artist most recently based in Greensboro, NC. She reuses, revalues, and reanimates mass-produced materials into singular artworks and inverts associations we make with different types of waste. Ozga is a former Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship recipient, Harriet Hale Woolley grantee from the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Jerome Fellowship recipient at Franconia Sculpture Park, and Paul-Louis Weiller award recipient from the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. Her work has been exhibited in over 15 different countries and she has participated widely in residencies in Europe and North America (Shakers, Nekatoenea, Pépinières Européennes de Création, ACRE, KHN). Currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at UNCG, Ozga holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris 8, an M.F.A. from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, and a B.F.A. from the SMFA at Tufts University, Boston.