Kasia Ozga
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture
Areas of Study
Education
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PhD, Doctoral School in Esthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts, University of Paris 8, France, 2013.
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MA, aesthetics and history of art and photography, University of Paris 8, France, 2008.
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MFA, sculpture, Akademia Sztuk Pieknych im. Jana Matejki (Academy of Fine Arts), Cracow, Poland, 2006.
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DFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2004
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BFA, studio art, Tufts University, 2004
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BA, international relations, Tufts University, 2004
Biography
Kasia Ozga is a Polish French American sculptor and installation artist. 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 10 different countries and she has participated widely in residencies in Europe and North America (Shakers, Nekatoenea, Pépinières Européennes de Création, ACRE, KHN). A former professor at the European Academy of Art in Brittany (EESAB), 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.
- 2022 Ozga, Kasia. “Going Dark: Revisiting Nightfall, a site-specific dark sky contemporary art workshop.” In Proceedings of the II International Conference on Night Studies, edited by Manuel Garcia-Ruiz and Jordi Nofre. Lisbon: ISCTE, 2022. (ISBN: 978-972-8048-68-6). http://hdl.handle.net/10071/24529
- 2021 Ozga, Kasia. “Être et exposer : révéler les problématiques de genre au travail dans l’art contemporain / Being and Showing: Revealing Gender Issues at Work in Contemporary Art.” Meridian Critic, Tomul XXXVII, Nr. 2, 2021 (usv.ro).
- Ozga, Kasia. “A matter of time: transformative sculptures by Marc Quinn, Zuzanna Janin, Anya Gallaccio, and Andy Goldsworthy.” In British Art and the Environment. Changes: Challenges and Responses since the Industrial Revolution, edited by Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède. London: Routledge, 2021.
- 2019 Paydar, Nikoo & Ozga, Kasia. “Mining Maps, Making Meaning: An Interview with Kasia Ozga.” Artl@s Bulletin 8, no. 3 (2019): Article 4. Purdue University and PSL.
- 2018 Jamieson, Anna. & Ozga, Kasia. “We Can't Breathe.” Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal and Research Network 9, no.1 (Autumn 2018). Birkbeck, University of London. doi: 10.16995/ddl.683
- 2017 Ozga, Kasia. “False Advertising? Public Art and Monographic Exhibitions.” In Museums and Public Art?, edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie, 206-221. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
- Ozga, Kasia. “The Internal Frontier: How Art at Once Problematizes Borders and Draws Us Closer to Them.” Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 6, no. 1 (Nov. 2017). University of Pittsburgh. doi: https://doi.org/10.5195/contemp.2017.186
- 2016 Ozga, Kasia. “Effects of Photography-based Public Art on the School Environment.” Studies in Art Education 57, no. 3 (Jun 2016). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00393541.2016.1177365
- Ozga, Kasia. “Public Art and Communion: Light, Festival, and Ritual.” Lumiere(s), HLENO Review (Histoire et littérature de l’Europe du Nord-Ouest) 53 (2016). IRHiS–Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion.
- 2015 Ozga, Kasia. “Internal Frontier.” InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC), Issue 22 (18/04/2015). University of Rochester.
2022 Œkoumène, l’Angle - espace d’art contemporain du Pays Rochois, la Roche-sur-Foron, France
2020 Skinscapes, Atelier Les Charrons, Saint-Étienne, France
2020 Carrying On : Maritime Logistics, Théâtre Le Verso, Saint-Étienne, France
2019 Origin Stories, Galerie Une Image…, Saint-Étienne, France
2019 Raw Materials, Hall in One Novaciéries, Saint-Chamond (Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne), France
2018 Installation, Trou Noir, Le casier, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Rebâtir, Maison de la Fontaine, Brest, France
2016 Représences, Médiathèque L’Oiseau-Lyre, Marpent, France
2015 Boys will be Boys, Ordinary Projects, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL, USA
2014 Land Grab, The Sub-mission, The Mission Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2013 Borders: Barrières, Frontières, La Off #3, Centre Culturel Saint-Exupéry, Reims, France
2011 Projections, Centre Culturel Mendi Zolan, Hendaye, France
2009 (O)pakowanie, Fabryka Koronek Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Emballages, Kasia Ozga, Château de la Louvière, Montluçon, France
2008 La Corde, Galerie Korczynski, Paris, France
2007 Attractions et Oppositions, l’Animathèque (MJC), Sceaux, France
2007 Body | Metaphor, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2021 Aide Individuelle à la Création Grant, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Fondation Charles Oulmont Prize, Paris, France
2020 Fonds d’urgence, Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), France
2019 Aide Individuelle à la Création Grant, City of Saint-Étienne France
2017 Aide Individuelle à la Création Grant, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Bretagne, France
2016 Soutien Exceptionnel Grant, Centre nat