Marta Byrdziak was born in 1993 in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. She realized her passion for art while attending the Bielsko-Biala High School of Art. After receiving her diploma in visual advertisement in 2013, she was accepted into the glass department of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art in Wroclaw, Poland. During this time, she discovered something completely new and magical for her: glass. Immediately she found interest in hot glass blowing and sculpting techniques. During her studies, she had the opportunity to travel under the Erasmus Plus Student Exchange program to attend the Anadolu University in Turkey for six months.

In 2016, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in glass and began traveling to work in different glass studios in the United States and Europe. During this time, she completed internships at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, New York and at Gather Glass in Providence, Rhode Island. In 2019, she was lucky enough to spend three months as an intern at STARWorks NC in Star, North Carolina, where she worked with Joe Grant, Thoryn Ziemba, and Jackie Polofka. In 2021 she was selected to participate in the European Glass Context Exhibition in Bornholm, Denmark. She currently lives and works in Ghent, Belgium where she helps run Gent Glas and pursues her passion for hot-sculpting while discovering a new phase of her artistic work.