Martyna Anna Benedykab.1991 in Gdynia, Polandbenedyka.m@gmail.comlinktr.ee/martynabenedykaEducationFIRST CLASS BA (HONS) FINE ART PAINTING2014, Gray’s School of Art, Scotland, UKSelected Projects & ExhibitionsUPCOMINGOctober 2023 - May 2024, September - October 2024Folio 2023/24 Online Masterclass On Photobook with Witty Books, PhMuseumPhMuseum Days 2024,...
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b.1991 in Gdynia, Poland
benedyka.m@gmail.com
linktr.ee/martynabenedyka
Education
FIRST CLASS BA (HONS) FINE ART PAINTING
2014, Gray’s School of Art, Scotland, UK
Selected Projects & Exhibitions
UPCOMING
October 2023 - May 2024, September - October 2024
Folio 2023/24 Online Masterclass On Photobook with Witty Books, PhMuseum
PhMuseum Days 2024, Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, Bologna, Italy
September - October 2024
At Home In Hundorf Art Residency Show, Targu Mures, Romania
2023
Unveiling Structures, De Structura, Juxtapose Art Fair, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
Tsundoku Art Book Fair, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
Unveiling Structures, De Structura, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
Experience Peace, S7 Video Sound Archive
The Sublime, Solo Show, Dan Hatmanu Gallery, Iasi, Romania
Past & Present, Der Greif, Pavillon 333 at Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich, Germany
Dance in collages, Jazz Dance Open, Pardubice, Czechia
36. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
2022-2023
De Structura, cross-border project, Tallinn, Estonia
Eureka, DongGang International Photo Festival, Photography Museum, Yeongwol, South Korea
2022
Futures Photography Annual Event, Camera - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino, Italy
Algorithmic RS AV Exhibition, Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
Classix-in-Art Music Grant, Classix Festival
De Structura, Performance and AR Show, Narva, Tallinn, Estonia
Meet The Artists, Futures, Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dance in Collages, Jazz Dance Open Festival, Pardubice, Czechia
In Memory Of My Feelings, Solo Show, i.e. Art Projects
2021
Inspired by Words, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
In Memory of My Feelings, Open Studio, In-ruins Art Residency, Castello di Squillace, Squillace,
Calabria, Italy
Kintsugi, Solo Show, Contemporary Identities, Virtual Gallery
Obsessions, Photographic Exploration Project (PEP), Tête Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Women In World History, UNIFERO, Busteni, Romania
My Love Is Your Love, Every Woman Biennial 2021, Superchief Gallery, New York City, USA
Fusion Arts Fair, Noblesse Palace, Bucharest, Romania
Infinity Exhibition, The Holy Art Virtual Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, London, UK
National Art Salon, Brăila Art Gallery, Brăila, Romania
2020-2021
Próba | Attempt 2020, Jan Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, Poland
2020
Open Art, Virtual, Art Number 23 Gallery, London, UK | Athens, Greece
Together We Are One, Swiss Art Expo, Zurich, Switzerland
Poem Vizual II, Galeria Labirint, Iași, Romania
On The Table, Virtual, Marram Arts, Scotland, UK
Rest Here | Rămâi aici, Solo Show, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
2020, 2030
Parade of the Schwitters’ Army, Kolaj Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana | Merz Gallery, Sanquhar,
Scotland, UK
2019
Powrót | Return, Solo Show, Palette Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2018
Themersons 5, Themersons Festival, Płocka Art Gallery, Płock, Poland
Big Village, Small World, Collagistas Festival, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin, Ireland
The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn, NY | Chicago, IL | Atlanta, GA | Spartanburg, SC, USA |
Toronto, Canada
2017
Artoteka, Food Think Tank Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
The Artbox.Project Basel 1.0, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Grande Biednale, Bęc Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2016
Day of the Dead - Dada Centennial Exhibition, The International Museum of Collage,
Assemblage and Construction, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Apricity, Mid-Winter Exhibition, Wall Projects, Montrose, Scotland, UK
Oliva in Painting, Warzywniak Art Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
2015
Waves, PCAO, Summerhall, The Sciennes Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Federation of British Artists - Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Wall Projects Winter Exhibition, Montrose, Scotland, UK
2014-2015
A to/from B, A Year-Long Silent Conversation, Two Person Exhibition w/ Kaori Yamashita, WAGON, Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
2014
Artsyland 8, Wall Projects II, The Old Rope Works, Montrose, Scotland, UK
Open Your Eyes, Gray's School of Art Degree Show, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Opening Credits, Gray's School of Art Pre-Degree Show, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2013
Stars in My Eyes, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
2012
The Seven Habits of Highly Anomalous People, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
SPD Annual Painting Awards Exhibition, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Guest Artist Talks
March - April 2022
Guest Artist Talks at Confluence II - Online Artist Residency in collaboration with, inter alia, the i.e. Art Projects and the School of the Arts (SOTA), USM, Penang, Malaysia
2022
In Memory Of My Feelings Artist Talk, accompanying the Solo Show, i.e. Art Projects
2021
Contemporary Painting Form From Contemporary Painter’s Perspective. What Is Necessary? DEBATES Series, Mihai Ursachi House, Iasi, Romania
2020
Rest Here | Rămâi aici, Artalpha Art Residency, Galeria Labirint, Iași, Romania
My Art Practice, Cel del Nord Virtual Residency, Oristà, Barcelona, Spain
2015
Cultural Interchange Beyond Languages and Locations, Wagon, Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Professional Membership
FUTURES Photography
Selected Masterclasses / Workshops
UPCOMING
2023-2024
Folio Online Masterclass On Photobook, PhMuseum
2023
45. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass, Germany
2022-2025
Magnum Photos x Futures Photography
2022
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Futures Photography, Camera - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Italy
M&C Saatchi Open House
44. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass, Germany
Artist Interviews
Artist Interview, Forme Uniche, 2021
Artist Interview, The Bagel Hole, 2021
Selected Scholarships and Awards
2024
Artist in Residence Niederösterreich, AT
2023
At Home In Hundorf Art Residency, RO
Winner of the Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant, BE
2022
Futures Photography Member, NL
2022
Winner of the Classix-in-Art Music Grant, RO
Winner of the De Structura Project 2022-23, EE
Winner of the Photo Romania Festival Portfolio Review, RO
2021
Artist of the Month, NNC Gallery & Magazine , London, UK
Winner of the In-ruins Residency, IT
2020
Winner of the Cel del Nord Virtual Residency, ESP
Winner of the Artalpha Art Residency, RO
2014
Robert Brough Memorial Scholarship, UK
2009
Scholarship for Artistic Achievements, PL
2003
Presidential Scholarship, Gdansk, PL
Art + Music Residencies
2024
Artist in Residence Niederösterreich, Krems an der Donau, Austria
2023
At Home in Hundorf, Hundorf, Romania
2022
De Structura, Forum, Tallinn and Narva, Estonia
2021-2022
The Order Of Things, Self-Directed Residency, The Balkans
2021
In ruins Residency, Squillace, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
2020
Together, Separately, Cel del Nord Virtual Residency, Orista, Barcelona, Spain
Artalpha Painting Residency, George Enescu National University of Arts, Romania
Selected Collections & Publications
Your Design Juice, July 2023
Climate Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
Alchemy: A Journal of Translation, February 2023
F-Stop Magazine, Black and White Issue February 2023
Grupaj, Photography Publication, Camera, 2022
Your Design Juice, March 2022
Voleger Mag
Forbidden Verses
Cerasus Magazine, Issue 3
Stuck in Notes Magazine, Issue 3
Salt ’n’ Sauce Magazine, Issue 1
Your Design Juice, November 2021
Your Design Juice, September 2021
Pastel Serenity Zine, Issue 5, 2021, 2022
Postscript Magazine, August 2021
No Name Collective Gallery Magazine
Color Tag Magazine, Vol. 3, 2021
The Purposeful Mayo Magazine
Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, 2021
Albe Art Gallery, Honorable Mention, 2021
Mnemosphere Project, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2021
The Spring City Journal, 2021
ArtConnect, Artists to Watch, Best of the Week, 2021
No(w)here Collective, 2021
Contemporary Identities, Issue 9, International Art Magazine, 2021
Lenscratch, Fine Art Photography, 2021
Quince Magazine, London, 2021
Postscript Magazine, UAE, 2020
World Wide Art Magazine, Winner, USA, 2020
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George Enescu National University of the Arts, Romania
MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, UK
Pushing Out The Boat, UK, 2019
Płocka Art Gallery Collection, PL
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage & Construction Collection, Santa Fe, USA
Summerhall TV, Edinburgh, UK
Wspólnota Gdańska, PL
A to/from B Photobook, 2015
https://a-to-from-b.tumblr.com/
Pushing Out The Boat, UK, 2015
Collage Collective (The CC Presents: Ken)
Central Stn The Creative Social Network
Scottish Art Blog, 2014
Private Collectors
Martyna Benedyka is a professional visual artist, photographer, and soprano.
