Bio

Gosha Karpowicz is a Polish-born abstract painter whose work explores color, space, and the deep relationship between material and place. She was born in central Poland, where she grew up observing light and color in the forests, meadows, and skies around her. Her father was a professor of agriculture, and her mother taught art and art history—together shaping her early sensitivity to both the natural world and visual language.

Gosha first approached painting through the lens of science. As a teenager, she was drawn to biology and the study of nature’s cycles—growth, transformation, and decay. Her practice shifted when, one day in a meadow, she was struck by the difference between warm and cool reds. The need to understand what she saw moved her from microscope to paintbrush. Painting became a way to experience and make sense of the world.

She moved to the United States from Communist-era Poland, seeking the freedom to live and express herself through art. Gosha earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1985. She has since exhibited widely in the U.S. and Poland, including at the Hopper House (Nyack), Equity Gallery, Lichtundfire Gallery, The Painting Center (NYC), Pinkwater Gallery (Kingston, NY), Five Points Gallery (Torrington, CT), BWAC (Brooklyn), the Anthroposophical Society (NYC), Korekta Gallery (Warsaw), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Radom. Her work is held in private collections across the U.S., Italy, Poland, and Germany, and in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Poland.

In 2023, she was awarded the Margo-Gelb Residency on Cape Cod. Gosha lives and works between New York City and Dutchess County, NY.