Karolina Bergin
Biography
Karolina Bergin is a Polish artist whose work centers on emotional, fashion-
inspired portraiture. Using mixed media, she creates tactile, layered works
where expressive faces meet raw textures, intuitive marks, and unfinished
forms. She primarily works with traditional media, valuing the unique qualities
of paper, texture, and physical mark-making. In a digital age, her commitment
to handmade processes allows her to capture the human pulse and
authenticity in her portraits.
Bergin treats her art as a language to explore vulnerability, identity, and the
delicate constructs of beauty. People, their emotions, and inner stories remain
central to her visual world. Her work is evolving toward larger formats and
bolder material expression, exploring contrasts such as delicacy versus
roughness, control versus intuition, and the visible versus the hidden. She is
developing her series Beyond the Surface, which includes Special Beauty,
awarded at FIDA 11.
A pivotal moment in her journey was creating The Gilded Muse, inspired by a
photograph by Daniel Roseberry. The piece was purchased by David
Roseberry and gifted to Fran Roseberry, becoming part of a personal family
story. This experience affirmed for Bergin how art can transcend imagery to
evoke emotion and connection. Her work will be exhibited in Portrait 2026 at
the CICA Museum in Korea, marking her first international museum exhibition.
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