Katherine Pieniazek

Artist | Creative Technologist

Color Texture Emotion

Art through Synesthetics

Katherine Pieniazek is a contemporary artist whose practice moves between high culture and fast culture, working across analog and digital forms. Through acrylic, oil pastel and extended reality (XR), her practice explores the dialogue between permanence and ephemerality, slowness and acceleration, the seen and the felt.

Her work has been selected for SaatchiArt’s New This Week Collection by Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson, and for the Best of Landscapes Collection by Associate Curator Siting Wang. She has also been featured by Nevena Bojinović, longtime curator at Artmajeur, and previously received Google Staff Picks for her XR installations Shrine VR and Dom Viridi VR.

Exhibitions

Beyond Earth & Sky
2024

A journey through light and landscape. In this virtual space, oil pastels become windows to nature — each scene unfolding in silence, evoking the transience of a fleeting sky. With soft hues and shifting perspectives, the exhibition reflects on the delicate rhythm between light and color, inviting stillness and contemplation.

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Awarded / Recognized

  • Edge of Stillness
    Edge of Stillness

    OCT 2025 – Selected by Saatchi Art’s Associate Curator, Siting Wand, for inclusion in the “Best of Landscapes” Collection.

  • Desertscape #3
    Desertscape #3

    SEP 2025 – Selected by Saatchi Art’s Chief Curator, Rebecca Wilson, to be featured in the internationally recognized “New This Week” Collection.

  • Scorched Earth
    Scorched Earth

    MAR 2025 – Selected by Art Majeur’s Curator, Nevena Bojinović, to be featured in “The Four Elements in Art: Earth” Theme of the Month collection.

  • Pine Ridge
    Pine Ridge

    NOV 2024 – Selected by Art Majeur’s Curator, Nevena Bojinović, to be featured in “The Importance of Color: Fauvism” Theme of the Month collection.

Blog Posts

  • The 10% Discount on Your Child’s Identity (And Why Greige Is a Symptom, Not the Disease)
    The 10% Discount on Your Child’s Identity (And Why Greige Is a Symptom, Not the Disease)
  • Why Fiji May Not Exist (And the UX of “Real Enough”)
    Why Fiji May Not Exist (And the UX of “Real Enough”)
  • From Stallions to Camels (And The Cost of Design by Committee)
    From Stallions to Camels (And The Cost of Design by Committee)
  • From Abercrombie to SS – That’s Sidney Sweeney, Calm Down (And Why Brands Keep Misreading Gen Z)
    From Abercrombie to SS – That’s Sidney Sweeney, Calm Down (And Why Brands Keep Misreading Gen Z)
  • That Gamestop Arcade Rumor (And Why It Might Be XR’s Secret Power-Up)
    That Gamestop Arcade Rumor (And Why It Might Be XR’s Secret Power-Up)
  • Why AI Isn’t a Threat to Analog Art (And Yes, the Reason Is Aliens)
    Why AI Isn’t a Threat to Analog Art (And Yes, the Reason Is Aliens)
  • Why There Are Two Rs in Strawberry (Taxonomy, Linguistics, and the Art of Not Grunting at ChatGPT)
    Why There Are Two Rs in Strawberry (Taxonomy, Linguistics, and the Art of Not Grunting at ChatGPT)
  • ChatGPT: The Final Boss of Search Engines (And Why Your Website Is Slowly Being Crushed Under a Sofa on a Staircase)
    ChatGPT: The Final Boss of Search Engines (And Why Your Website Is Slowly Being Crushed Under a Sofa on a Staircase)
  • The Changing Paradigm of IP (And Why AI Will Force a Fan-Made Reckoning)
    The Changing Paradigm of IP (And Why AI Will Force a Fan-Made Reckoning)