Collection: Andrea Kostyal

Andrea Kostyal is a studio artist living in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She is the cofounder of the Singing River Art Studio and the Artists Across Borders artist group. She is currently serving as the visual arts coordinator for FestivalSouth.

Originally from and trained in fine art in Hungary. She has been a resident of Hattiesburg for 16 years. For the past 20 years, she has specialized in abstract, dreamlike, mixed media cityscapes that reflect her interests in unity, diversity, and equality by emphasizing the unique architecture of different places and cultures.

Her paintings have been invited to solo and group exhibitions at museums
such as the Mississippi Museum of Art, and Meridian Museum of Art,
universities, including University of Connecticut, The University of Southern
Mississippi, William Carey University, and many galleries, and juried
exhibitions regionally, nationwide, and internationally. Her paintings are represented by The Caron Gallery in Tupelo and Laurel.

She teaches workshops on her unique photo transfer technique for organizations and groups across the Southern US. In the past couple of years, she has been commissioned by The Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art to create two large murals and paint several utility boxes as public art projects where she integrated her design with the environment of the specific location and with the viewers themselves. She received the Individual Visual Artists fellowship for her Public Art Murals from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2024.