Polish born artist, Pilat studied painting and illustration at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, CA. She is an award-winning artist and her works can be found in public and private collections in the U.S., South America, China and Europe.

Pilat is a painter, best known for her series of heroic portraits of technology and machines. She recently had a show at Google X debuting works on computer memory, particle acceleration, and the women who made those possible. She’s been artist-in-residence at a hybrid vehicle engine maker Wrightspeed (CEO Ian Wright was Tesla co-founder), and is currently artist-in-residence at the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda.

Pilat’s paintings explore questions raised by the rapid evolution of technology and the conflicts inherent in both progress and obsolescence, a tribute to the glories of industry past and a sense of the heroic promise inherent in our machines. Hers’ is a largely optimistic vision, but as is the case with romance and nostalgia, just under the surface are questions (and anxieties) of our receding past and unchartered future.