Mati Granica is a UK based, award winning 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.
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.
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, first class honours (2022-25)
Work and Residencies
Youth Programme Coordinator, National Portrait Gallery (2025-)
EcoFutures resident, Videotage (2025)
Events & Exhibition Photographer, Arts Student Union (2024-)
Visual Guide Photographer, The Photographers’ Gallery (2023)
Exhibitions & Screenings
52nd Student Academy Awards, New York City (2025)
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)
BA (Hons) Photography, University of the Arts London, first class honours (2022-25)
Work and Residencies
Youth Programme Coordinator, National Portrait Gallery (2025-)
EcoFutures resident, Videotage (2025)
Events & Exhibition Photographer, Arts Student Union (2024-)
Visual Guide Photographer, The Photographers’ Gallery (2023)
Exhibitions & Screenings
52nd Student Academy Awards, New York City (2025)
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)
Awards & Recognition
Student Academy Award Winner (2025)
Student Academy Award Winner (2025)