Kasia Gumpert (b. Poland) is a New York-based artist. Her work investigates the medium of photography in the context of contemporary visual culture. Gumpert’s practice is questioning the traditions of landscape and still life photography. Her images are a visual interplay between representation and abstraction. Gumpert graduated with a BFA in Art and Film Studies from Hunter College (2010), NY and received her MFA from the International Center of Photography-Bard College (2014). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the shows at the International Center of Photography (NY), Trestle Gallery (NY) and Copro Gallery (Los Angeles). She has also presented work at the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, Poland) and Neue Galerie (Augsburg, Germany)
Kasia Gumpert's current project, the series of "The North Faith" explores the city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This selection is one person’s photographic journey into the crossroads, byways and landscapes, the in-between spaces, the objects and flora, their positioning and relationships to each other, that made Pyongyang a fascinating, bewildering, and close to overwhelming place. Gumpert's relationship between everyday city scenes juxtaposed with carefully composed personal narratives utilize the connection between photography and its representation through mass distributed genre of nature photography. Those intimate moments taken by large format (4 x 5) camera depicts layered sceneries that generate a new territory from conventional interpretations of reality.