Marta Romankiv (b. 1995, Lviv, Ukraine) is an interdisciplinary artist and sociologist working at the intersection of art, social sciences, and activism. She creates installations, video works, and participatory social situations that address themes of civil and labor rights, social exclusion, migration, and identity. Since 2021, she has been actively supporting Ukrainian migrant women, co-founding and co-organizing the Domestic Workers’ Committee within the Workers’ Initiative trade union in Poland.
She holds master’s degrees in Media Art from the Academy of Art in Szczecin and in Sociology from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She defended her doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in 2025. Currently she teaches at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. Her work has been recognized with the Maria Anto & Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven International Art Prize (2023) and the Allegro Prize (2020). She is also a recipient of the Gaude Polonia residency (2021), granted by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and a scholarship from the City of Kraków (2022). Her work has been exhibited at Polish and international art institutions, including the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the National Museum in Nuremberg, and the National Museum of History of Moldova in Chișinău.