I base my work primarily on painting and drawing. Combined with other techniques, it allows me to achieve a level of complexity that matches my perception of reality. Following this method, the resulting visual statement serves not only as personal commentary but marks a culmination of a thinking process, which having failed at finding its verbal equivalent, manifests itself as an image. The body, a source of feeling and information, is the center of my iconography. Relying on it, I create a visual version of the lived experience. This way I communicate purely subjective ideas, which fill the gap between religion, science, and life.

Natalia Szostak was born in 1980 in Szczecin, Poland. Visual artist combining traditional and new techniques, action in space, and text. Between 1999-2009 she lived in Paris, San Francisco, and Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from San Francisco State University in California (Painting & Drawing B.A. 2007), Academy of Art in Szczecin (Graphic Arts M.A. 2012), University of Arts in Poznan (Painting & Drawing Ph.D. 2018). Assistant professor at the Faculty of Graphics at the Szczecin Academy of Art, leading her authorial Image Concepts Studio since 2019.

Recipient of the Emerging Artist Special Award in the International Art Competition organized by the X-Power Gallery in Los Angeles (2009) and the Art Award from the Mayor of the City of Szczecin (2014). Author of the Platerøwka project, whose main objective was to promote art outside the gallery and museum structure. Two- time recipient of the Artist Scholarship of the City of Szczecin (2011, 2012) and the Scholarship for the Best Doctoral Students (2016–18). In 2019, her book The Matter of Experience and the Image was published by Scientific Papers Authors and Publishers Society UNIVERSITAS based in Krakow, Poland.