Martyna Anna Benedyka
b.1991 in Gdynia, Poland
benedyka.m@gmail.com


https://linktr.ee/martynabenedyka

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Education

FIRST CLASS BA (HONS) FINE ART PAINTING
2014, Gray’s School of Art, Scotland, UK


Memberships

• Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)

• FUTURES Photography

Selected Projects & Exhibitions

UPCOMING

16-18 June 2023
Past & Present, Der Greif, Pavillon 333 at Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich, Germany

ONGOING

02.06.2023-
Experience Peace, S7 Video Sound Archive

22.07.2022 - 30.06.2023
Eureka, DongGang International Photo Festival, Photography Museum, Yeongwol, South Korea

2022-2023
De Structura cross-border project, Tallinn, Estonia


2023
Dance in collages, Jazz Dance Open, Pardubice, Czechia
36. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany

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
Meet The Artists, Futures, Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dance in Collages, Jazz Dance Open Festival, Pardubice, Czechia
Borders Art Fair, SSA, Edinburgh, UK
In Memory Of My Feelings, Solo Show, i.e. Art Projects

2021
Inspired by Words, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
Open Studio, In-ruins Art Residency, Castello di Squillace, Squillace, Catanzaro, 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,
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


Art + Music Residencies 

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

Masterclasses, Courses and Workshops

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 (ITALIAN)
Artist Interview, The Bagel Hole, 2021 (ENGLISH)


Scholarships and Awards

2022 - present
Futures Photography Artist, 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


Selected Collections & Publications

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
http://kolajinstitute.org/collections/schwitters-army/SA018.html
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


Selected Press and Reviews

https://segnonline.it/la-residenza-artistica-in-ruins-fra-archeologia-e-arte-contemporanea/
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/calabria/notiziari/index.html?/tgr/video/2021/08/ContentItem-e569e82e-af90-44d2-ba8f-1261712c1522.html
https://www.facemagazine.it/in-ruins-in-calabria-larcheologia-incontra-larte-contemporanea/
https://www.collater.al/en/inruins-artistic-residency-archaeology-contemporary-art/
https://dernierbaiser.mondoblog.org/author/fanchon/
https://artemagazine.it/attualita/item/13453-in-ruins-l-arte-contemporanea-per-valorizzare-l-archeologia-del-mediterraneo
https://www.lanuovacalabria.it/squillace-parte-in-ruins-2021-il-progetto-per-valorizzare-il-patrimonio-archeologico-del-mediterraneo
https://www.weboggi.it/cronaca/patrimonio-archeologico-del-mediterraneo-in-ruins-presenta-lopen-studio-delle-artiste-alrai-benedyka-e-del-duo-italiano-ceresoli-cosco-1/
https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/2021/07/inruins-residenze-squillace/
https://calabria.live/a-squillace-in-ruins-la-residenza-dartista-che-vuole-valorizzare-il-patrimonio-archeologico-del-mediterraneo/
https://www.exibart.com/arte-contemporanea/con-in-ruins-l-arte-contemporanea-rilegge-archeologia-del-mediterraneo/
https://arte.sky.it/news/mostra-giovane-boccioni-milano-galleria-bottegantica https://www.contemporaryidentities.com/resources/ContemporaryIdentities-IssueNo9.pdf
Stars In My Eyes
Wall Street International
https://vimeo.com/145614702
https://wagonart.org/2015/03/01/new-curatorial-project/ http://kolajmagazine.com/artistdirectory/martyna-benedyka
http://thisiscentralstation.com/degree-shows/grays-degree-show-review/