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Faustyna Turek is a Chicago-born painter raised in a Polish immigrant household, whose practice emerges from sustained observation of domestic space, labor, and class. She attended the Chicago High School for the Arts and was awarded the Walter Massey–Shirley Scholarship in 2021, which enabled her to pursue her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her bachelor of fine arts.

Grounded in a rigorous daily practice of oil painting, Turek works through sustained looking, recording the interiors, rituals, and figures that shape her immediate world. Early in her practice, her work centered on the tensions of growing up in an immigrant household and the pressures of survival as a first-generation American. Over time, her paintings have shifted toward a broader investigation of power, class, and systemic inequality.

Her recent work examines the structures and agents behind class division, political and governmental fraud, and the opaque, esoteric world of those who occupy positions of authority—often in contrast to the physical labor performed by those who serve them. Through careful observation and painterly restraint, Turek constructs images that function as quiet witnesses to the ways power, labor, and inheritance shape everyday life.