Paulina Bereza is an artist and material designer currently residing between Canada and the United States. Working primarily through weaving, Bereza’s work resides in the space of liminality; representational and abstract imagery come together through analog and digital processes to form familiar yet unrecognizable spaces. Bridging craft practices, new technologies, and biomateriality, Bereza’s pieces are temporal landscapes built upon abstracted fragments, piecing together impressions that work across multiple time periods and locations, creating scenes that conjure disorienting malleable spaces of hybrid identity. A personal archive of photographs from her journey from the early years of post-communist Poland, through transitional homes, and Slavic heritage are a source place for her work. Her hybrid textiles form landscapes that capture traces of memories that are reconstructed through collages and extensive generative editing, deliberately abstracting and creating material behaviours that embody friction between a multitude of realities, trying to find familiarity in transition.
Paulina completed her MFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2024. She previously graduated from Concordia University (BFA 2022) in Fibres and Material Practices. Her work and research were supported by the fellowship in Society and Culture with the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (2023-2024), and she has received support from the Canada Arts Council (2022), the Lenore G. Tawney scholarship (2023), and the Haystack Mountain School of Craft fellowship (2022). In 2021, she won the Creative Promise Award with the Surface Design Association (SDA). Her recent works were featured at Art Toronto (2025), Center for Contemporary Photography (G44 2026), the RISD Museum (2024) and the International Linen Biennale of Portneuf (2021). Her new body of work will take shape during her residency at the Praxis Digital Weaving Lab in 2026.
