Masha Wysocka is a Belgian-Spanish multidisciplinary artist. She focuses on stories from the peripheries, bringing both history and science to the forefront of her artistic practice. Having lived in several countries, Masha developed a strong appreciation for languages and became a dedicated polyglot, actively engaging with a diverse array of languages, from Yiddish to Esperanto.
She holds a Master's degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication, which is part of the University of the Arts London. Additionally, she graduated from Sciences Po Strasbourg and earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Strasbourg.
She has received several prestigious awards, including the Mead Fellowship from the University of the Arts London. She has also won various scholarships, such as the 2023 PhMuseum Photography Grant - Residency Bursary at Landskrona Foto. In 2025, she was awarded an artistic research grant from the Belgian Ministry of Culture - Wallonie-Bruxelles. Moreover, she has participated in artist-in-residence programs in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Ukraine.
Her work has been exhibited in multiple countries, including France, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the UK. Notably, her project "Truth is Stranger than Fiction" was featured at the Circulation(s) Festival in 2024 and at the Boutographies Festival in 2025.
Her artwork is included in the University of Alicante Museum's collection in Spain.
For questions and enquiries, please contact me via email: masha.wysocka@gmail.com
AWARDS AND HONORS
2025 Mobility Grant, Belgium Ministry of Culture, Wallonie-Bruxelles
2024-25 Artistic Research Grant, Belgium Ministry of Culture, Wallonie-Bruxelles
2024 Nominated, Star Dummy Book Award, Photographic Social Vision Foundation, Spain
2023 Shortlisted, Un/fund Grant, Un/produced Organisation, Netherlands
2023 PhMuseum Photography Grant - Residency Bursary, PhMuseum, Italy/Landskrona Foto, Sweden
2023 Shortlisted, Textile Exchange x Magnum Photos, Textile Exchange, USA
2023 Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant, Goethe-Institut/EU Commission, Belgium
2021 Finalist, VI Fiebre Dummy Book Award, Fiebre Photobook Festival, Spain
2020 Mead Fellowship, University of the Arts London, UK
2020 Visegrad Scholarship, Blinken Open Society Archives, Hungary
2020 Artist Mobility Grant, Bureau International Jeunesse, Belgium
2019 Step Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation, Netherlands
2019 Third place, Enrique Algarra Prize, EASD, Spain
2018 Nominated, Genesis Imaging Postgraduate Award, UK
FESTIVALS
2025 Photo-Match, Fotofestiwal, Łódź, Poland
2025 Les Boutographies, Montpellier, France
2025 Outside/In, Mechelen, Belgium
2025 Shortlisted, Format Festival, Derby, UK
2024 Screening, Bristol Photo Festival, Bristol, UK
2024 Circulation(s) Festival, Paris, France
2022 SCAN Tarragona, Spain
2022 Belgium Photobooks, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
2022 Kontenporanea, Irun, Spain
2022 Trans Europa, Porto, Portugal
EXHIBITIONS
2025 You Are Our Only True Link with the Free World, Miejska Galeria Sztuki, Łódz, Poland
2021 Jardín de naturalización, The Acclimatisation Garden of La Orotava, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2021 Jardín de naturalización, VII Residency programme, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2021 Karta Polaka/Carta Polaca, Pluri-Identitats 2021, Biennale Visual Arts, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2018 The Seven Bridges of Königsberg, LCC, University of the Arts London, UK
RESIDENCIES
2024 RADAR, Mechelen, Belgium
2023 Landskrona Foto, Sweden
2023 Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
2022 Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2021 VII Museum of the University of Alicante Residency, Alicante, Spain
2021 Fabrique d’Europe, Caranusca/DRAC Grand Est, Creutzwald, France
2019 Izolyatsia, Kyiv, Ukraine
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Magazine Camera Austria (nº172), Graz, Austria
2025 Magazine Les Boutographies Festival, Montpellier, France
2024 Catalogue Circulation(s) Festival, Paris, France
2024 Journal Eidolon Center, virtual/international
2023 Der Greif Guest Room: S.Baker & A.Vincendeau, virtual/international
2022 Catalogue Talent Latent 2022, SCAN Festival Tarragona, Spain
2021 Artist’s book Truth is Stranger than Fiction, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Zine Grenze/Frontière, project with schoolchildren from Lycée Polyvalent Félix Mayer, Creutzwald, France
2021 Catalogue Pluri-Identitats 2021, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
ART EDUCATION
2025 Film Masterclass Truth (and Other Stories) by Nir Evron, Institut für Neue Soziale Plastik, Berlin, Germany
2023 Playwrights Workshop by Paul Pourveur, Brussels, Belgium
2022 The Form of the Book by Ahorn Books, virtual
2022 Das Haus Project, virtual
2021 Mentorship Programme with Arturo Soto, Image Threads Collective, virtual
2020 Masterclass Photography, Concept, Narrative & The Book Form by Christian Patterson - FotoFilmic, virtual
2019-20 International Mentorship Programme, Sputnik Photos, Warsaw, Poland/virtual
2019 MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, LCC, University of the Arts London, UK
2018 Workshop by Der Greif magazine, GetxoPhoto Festival, Spain
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
2007 MA in Political Science, Sciences Po Strasbourg, France
2006 BA in Sociology, University of Strasbourg, France
COLLECTION
Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
AFFILIATION
ARCHIVO, Photography and Visual Culture Platform, UK
NICC (nationale organisatie van en door kunstenaars), Belgium
