Nadia
Issa

 Photographer, multimedia artist, graphic designer, academic teacher. Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Art & Design at Missouri State University.  She got her PhD in Visual Arts in 2020 (Department of Graphic Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw). From 2016-2020 she has been working at the Faculty of Media Arts,  Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (assistant). Research worker - intern at the Public Space Research Institute at the Painting Department (2018-2019). Visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Art & Design at Missouri State University in 2017. She graduated from the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she got her MA in 2016. Winner of the Rector’s scholarship for the best students and the best Ph.D. students, the Zaiks Scholarship. Winner of the contest “Debuts”, promoting the most talented young Polish photographers. Her works have been featured in individual exhibitions (among others: Gallery Obok ZPAF (Association of Polish Art Photographers) in Warsaw, Brick City Gallery (level 2) in the United States, Centre of Contemporary Art in Trnava Slovakia) and in numerous group exhibitions (among others: International Photography Festival in Łódź, Singer Jewish Culture Festival in Warsaw, the Mazovian Museum in Płock, the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów, and the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków). She is often a curator of student exhibitions, author of papers in scientific monographs, conducts workshops on image perception and contemporary techniques of photographic image implications. Her works have been published, among other places, in the pages of Krytyka Polityczna [Political Critique], Estetyka i Krytyka [Aesthetics and criticism], and Vieworld magazine. She often explores themes of identity, both cultural and individual. She is interested in the phenomenon of symbol and archetype in the context of both individual and collective experiences.