Beata Drozd was born in Gdansk, Poland and grew up during revolutionary times - the collapse of the Soviet regime. She was able to go to London in 1990 and study painting at St Martins College of Art and Design and at Ecole Superioure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (1992- 1998). She lives and works in London and New York. Ms.Drozd began her artistic career painting portraits of many prominent New Yorkers and creating commissions for such establishments like The NY Friars Club or The Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center. She concentrated on collage since 2005. Since that time her materials have consisted solely of popular culture magazines (Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Bazaar). In each work, pages of advertisement are ripped into hundreds of varying pieces and resembled into dynamic compositions that reflect the artist’s simultaneous commitments to representation and abstraction. The effect is an accomplished pastiche of the images vaguely recognized by the viewer, who has undoubtedly passed several of them while looking through the morning papers or walking down the streets of New York, without focusing on their cultural significance or aesthetic properties.

Beata Drozd collages are often mistaken for paintings, but she does not use any paint, even in the most detailed parts of the picture. Her main tools are paper, scissors and glue. Many thousands of cut-out small pieces of paper are glued onto the canvas or board elaborately.

Artwork and portrait commissions in many private collections: Richard Meier, Arthur Carter, A.E. Hotchner, European Center for Promoting Regional Culture and Folk Art, Cipriani, Societe de Generale, Cardinal Eagan, Schomburg Centre, African Union