Maria Husarska (born 8 July 1981) is a Polish visual artist and filmmaker based in Kraków. She works across painting, ceramics, photography and film, producing primarily abstract and geometric compositions as well as ceramic works. According to Life in Kraków, her work has been exhibited in Poland and abroad, including in Rome and Milan.
Husarska was born on 8 July 1981 in Kraków. According to her website and gallery biographies, she comes from an artistic family.
From 1996 to 2001, Husarska attended the Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych (High School of Fine Arts) in Kraków, specialising in exhibition design. In 2001 she began studies at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She completed her diploma in 2006 in Zbigniew Bajek's interdisciplinary studio with a painting cycle titled Horyzont wewnÃÂtrzny â zewnÃÂtrzny (Inner and Outer Horizon) and a photographic annex Toà ¼samoà Âà(Identity) in the studio of Agata Pankiewicz. According to her website, the diploma paintings were shown at the Paà Âac Sztuki (Palace of Art) in Kraków and received a distinction from the Towarzystwo PrzyjaciÃ³à  Jana Matejki (Society of Friends of Jan Matejko). Life in Kraków reported that the Horyzont cycle later entered a private collection at the Sultan Business Center in Dubai.
ArtDependence reports that Husarska also graduated from the Krzysztof Kieà Âlowski Film School (Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia) with a Master of Fine Arts degree in film arts, majoring in film production organisation. The Polish film database FilmPolski credits her as a camera collaborator on the 2016 student short F51.0, produced by the University of Silesia's Faculty of Radio and Television.
Husarska lives and works in Kraków.
Husarska's practice centres on painting, with additional work in ceramics, photography and film. Her subjects include still lifes, landscapes and abstract studies.
According to her website and gallery material, Husarska has held solo exhibitions at venues in Kraków including Galeria Teatru STU, Galeria Faust, Flower Power gallery, Galeria Pegaz, Galeria Dylàg, MONOstudio, Arsene Galeria Wiatrak, the Academy of Fine Arts Gallery and BIELEC â Dom Fotografii i Malarstwa, as well as at Galeria Schody in Warsaw. Life in Kraków reported in 2024 that she had also exhibited in galleries in Rome and Milan.
In May 2024 she presented the exhibition HopeFull at Arsene Galeria Wiatrak in Kraków, comprising paintings, collages, ceramics and films. An expanded version, HopeFull 2.0, was shown at BIELEC â Dom Fotografii i Malarstwa later in 2024.
In July and August 2024 Husarska took part in the IV MiÃÂdzynarodowy PrzeglÃÂ d Sztuki (Fourth International Art Review) at the Struga Palace in Lower Silesia. By 2025 her works had appeared at contemporary-art auctions in Poland; the auction platform OneBid lists canvases such as F/3 and F/7 offered by the galleries 101 Projekt and Pragaleria.
In 2025, ArtDependence published a listing for her painting Elan Vital (2025) and an interview about her work.
Husarska has also worked in film and video. The Kraków online portal Life in Kraków has listed her as a camera operator and editor on its team page. She has written photo-essays and articles for the site on topics including Kraków's fountains and the work of her grandparents Helena and Roman Husarscy.
FilmPolski credits Husarska as a camera collaborator on the 2016 short fiction film F51.0, produced at the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice. The Polish film website Filmweb lists her as a producer on the 2019 film Place to Be.
Husarska is the founder of the film-production company Gepard Film Maria Husarska, established in 2018 and based in Kraków.
Husarska's paintings include abstract and geometric compositions as well as stylised depictions of organic forms such as birds, trees and fruit. In a 2025 interview with ArtDependence, she said her work reflects ongoing processes of change and is shaped by concern about the war near the PolishâÂÂUkrainian border, while also aiming to provide a space where those anxieties can briefly recede.
Her 2025 painting Elan Vital (acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 80 ÃÂ 120 cm) originated in studies of peach fruit and their seeds. She described the work as connected to the experience of personal loss, and said painting served as a means of processing that experience. Her HopeFull series uses a palette of reds, pinks and oranges with recurring flamingo motifs; gallery and auction texts describe the series as addressing themes of renewal after difficult experiences.