Jowita Wyszomirska is an interdisciplinary artist working with installation and mixed media to explore themes of biophilia through the intricate relationships of time, movement, and place-specific phenomena. Deeply influenced by walking, cycling, and cultivating plants, she explores the interplay between representation and abstraction to reimagine landscapes through both aesthetic and ecological lenses.
Wyszomirska earned her BFA from Illinois State University and MFA from the University of Maryland. She has exhibited widely in solo and two-person exhibitions across the United States, and her work is represented by Neptune & Brown in Washington, DC. Her honors include fellowships at the Good Hart Artist Residency (MI), Andy Warhol Preserve Artist Residency (NY), Wrangell Artist Residency (AK), Jentel Foundation (WY), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (NE), and the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture (Italy). Her work is held in numerous private, corporate, and institutional collections, with recent acquisitions by the Baltimore Museum of Art.
EDUCATION
2016 Master of Fine Arts, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2003 BFA Degree, Painting, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Echoes of the Understory, Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, DC
2023 Limitless are Leaves, Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, DC
2022 Still Light, Gallery at CCBC, Essex, MD
2021 Nearshore Light, Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, DC
2020 Water Memory, Jenalia Research Institute, Ashburn, VA
2019 The Distance of Blue, Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, DC
2018 Water Memory, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Department of Art and Design, Little Rock, AR
2017 Vanishing Point, Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, DC
2016 Unseen Patterns, Westobou Gallery, curated by Susan Laney, Augusta, GA
In the Liminal, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
2015 Entropic, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2013 Flutter, PineBox Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2012 Buoyant, SM&KK Studios, Chicago, IL
Geographies, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Tenuous Connection, The Temporary, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
2003 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Illinois State University Galleries, Bloomington-Normal, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Engaging the Elements: Poetry in Nature, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore, MD
Future Evergreener: From Destruction to Abundance, Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola
University Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2023 Art + Place + Community: 10 Years with Good Hart Artist Residency, Crooked Tree Art
Center, Petoskey, MI
2021 Faculty Show, University Galleries, UMD, College Park
2020 Bethesda Painting Award Finalist Show, Bethesda, MD
2018 Transmutations, CCBC Artscape Gallery Network Exhibition, Catonsville, MD
2016 Young Blood, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD
Academy 2016, ConnerSmith, Washington DC
Structure/Surface/Substance, Holtzman MFA Gallery, Towson University, MD
2015 Baker Artists Awards Exhibition, curated by Helene Grabow, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Iterations, (two-person) VisArts Center, Rockville, MD
MidPoint, Stamp Union Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2014 A Window Into the Mind’s Eye, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington DC
2013 The Tempest, Projected stop-motion drawings for the play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL ( in collaboration with Chad Tyler)
Reservoir, Herman Maril Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Regional Juried Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Juror: Kristen Hileman,
the Curator of Contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art
2012 Drawing Connections, Mills Gallery, BCA, Boston, MA
Studio Artist Biennial, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
24th National Drawing & Print Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame University, Baltimore, MD
2011 Geo-Structure, Silbert Art Gallery, Goucher College, Towson, MD
Art Night, Juried Exhibition, Hickok Cole Architects, Washington DC
Studio Artist Biennial, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 Baker Artist Awards Finalist, Baltimore, MD
2022 Clarvit Research Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2021 ARHU Advancement Grant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2019 Andy Warhol Visual Arts Program, The Nature Conservancy, Long Island, NY
2019 Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Award
2016 The David C. Driskell Award of Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2015-2016 Daniel Nicholson Ohlke Memorial Fund Award, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2014 Board of Governors Award (b grant), William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund, Baltimore, MD
2013 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1999-2003 Tuition Waiver Scholarship, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, IL
1999-2002 Elizabeth Stein Scholarship, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, IL
RESIDENCIES
2026 Marble House Project, Dorset, VT
Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
2022 Good Hart Artist residency, Good Hart, MI
2019 Andy Warhol Visual Arts Program, The Nature Conservancy, Montauk, NY
2017 Wrangell Artist Residency, McCarthy, AK
2013 Soaring Gardens Residency, The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Meshoppen, PA
2012 Jentel Artist Fellowship, Jentel Residency, WY
2011- 2013 Studio Artist Program, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2010 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency, Nebraska City, NE
2003 International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Art Residency, Umbria, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Washington Post Mark Jenkins, In the Galleries: Intriguing explorations in texture, line, and color, September 29, 2023
Home & Design Magazine Tina Coplan, Nature in FLux, July & August 2021, 2021
The Washington Post Mark Jenkins, In the Galleries: Jowita Wyszomirska, March 26, 2019
The Washington Post Mark Jenkins, In the Galleries: Jowita Wyszomirska, March 1
East City Art Jan Aucker, Jowita Wyszomirska’s The Distance of Blue, Feb. 26
Arkansas Times Leslie Newell Peacock, A transporting installation at UALR, plus Asian expressions of oppression On "Water Memory" and more, Aug. 30, 2018
Washington City Paper, Becky Little, At Gallery Neptune & Brown, Jowita Wyszomirska Makes Bold Environmental Statements Through Her Art, April 20 2017
The Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, In the Galleries: These Are Not Your Usual Travel Pictures, May 4, 2017
Burnaway, Yves Jeffcoat, Visual Arts at the Westobou Festival in Augusta, October 13, 2016
The Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, In the Galleries: Katrina and a Tempest of Symbols, May 15, 2015
The Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, A Window into Mind’s Eye, Feb. 28, 2014
The Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, What’s Up at Boston-area Art Galleries, Aug. 6, 2013
Baltimore City Paper, Cara Ober, Scrawls and Whispers, July 10, 2013
The Baltimore Sun, Smith, Tim, Summer Exhibits at Grimaldi’s, School 33 offer diversion from the heat, Aug. 9, 2012
Baltimore OutLoud, Farley, Michael, Sondheim Exhibition Season Begins, July 13, 2012