Mati Granica is a London-based Polish visual artist working with photography, 3D modelling, and artificial intelligence. His work explores the tensions between accelerating technologies and ecological collapse, using critical yet visually alluring methods to expose the contradictions of digital progress. By employing tools often utilised in environmental harm, he challenges the systems they emerge from, revealing the ethical and material costs beneath their polished surfaces.
Shaped by a world of digital saturation, political unrest, and ecological uncertainty, Granica’s practice questions the narratives of innovation and control that underpin contemporary life. His work often plays with the tension between precision and disorder, synthetic beauty and ecological collapse, using glitches, distortions and digital artefacts to expose instability and fragility.
Alongside systemic critique, Granica’s practice is grounded in personal explorations of memory, place, and identity. Landscapes, both constructed and real, act as spaces for navigating cultural inheritance and disconnection, particularly shaped by his experience as a first-generation immigrant. Across various mediums, his work grapples with what is lost, obscured, or hidden, whether in climate discourse, technological advancement, or personal history.
For more information, contact Mati or find him on Instagram.
Education
BA (Hons) Photography, University of the Arts London (2022-25)
Work and Residencies
EcoFutures resident, Videotage (2025-)
Youth Programme Coordinator, National Portrait Gallery (2025-)
Events & Exhibition Photographer, Arts Student Union (2024-)
Visual Guide Photographer, The Photographers’ Gallery (2023)
Exhibitions
Movements Towards the Self, Movements Towards the Future, Upper Gallery, London (2025)
Light & Land, The Mall Galleries, London (2024)
Peckham Digital, The Hub, London (2024)
Art in the Raw, Copeland Gallery, London (2024)
Landscape Photographer of the Year, various train stations nationwide (2023/24)
Landscape Photographer of the Year, various train stations nationwide (2021/22)
Publications
Docu Book Volume 13, Docu Magazine (2023)
Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 16 (2023)
Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 14 (2021)
Shaped by a world of digital saturation, political unrest, and ecological uncertainty, Granica’s practice questions the narratives of innovation and control that underpin contemporary life. His work often plays with the tension between precision and disorder, synthetic beauty and ecological collapse, using glitches, distortions and digital artefacts to expose instability and fragility.
Alongside systemic critique, Granica’s practice is grounded in personal explorations of memory, place, and identity. Landscapes, both constructed and real, act as spaces for navigating cultural inheritance and disconnection, particularly shaped by his experience as a first-generation immigrant. Across various mediums, his work grapples with what is lost, obscured, or hidden, whether in climate discourse, technological advancement, or personal history.
For more information, contact Mati or find him on Instagram.
Education
BA (Hons) Photography, University of the Arts London (2022-25)
Work and Residencies
EcoFutures resident, Videotage (2025-)
Youth Programme Coordinator, National Portrait Gallery (2025-)
Events & Exhibition Photographer, Arts Student Union (2024-)
Visual Guide Photographer, The Photographers’ Gallery (2023)
Exhibitions
Movements Towards the Self, Movements Towards the Future, Upper Gallery, London (2025)
Light & Land, The Mall Galleries, London (2024)
Peckham Digital, The Hub, London (2024)
Art in the Raw, Copeland Gallery, London (2024)
Landscape Photographer of the Year, various train stations nationwide (2023/24)
Landscape Photographer of the Year, various train stations nationwide (2021/22)
Publications
Docu Book Volume 13, Docu Magazine (2023)
Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 16 (2023)
Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 14 (2021)
Self portrait (2023)