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Martyna Anna Benedyka
b.1991 in Gdynia, Poland
benedyka.m@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/martynabenedyka
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Education
Fine Art and Design
FIRST CLASS BA (HONS) FINE ART PAINTING
2014, Gray’s School of Art, Scotland, UK
2022-2025
MAGNUM PHOTOS X FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY Seminars
Professional Membership
FUTURES Photography
Selected Projects & Exhibitions
UPCOMING
November 2023
Ritual, ISSP Riga Calendar 2024 (selected), Latvia
(make) belief, Guest Room by Daniel Boether-Smith (CCP Australia) & Tanvi Mishra, Der Greif (selected), Munich, Germany
5 November 2023
Untitled
#1, Exposed Torino Foto Festival, Futures Photography, C2C Festival, OGR Torino, Italy
October 2023 - May 2024,
September - October 2024
Folio 2023/24 Online Masterclass On Photobook with Witty Books and PhMuseum
PhMuseum Days 2024, Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, Bologna, Italy
2023
Strange Times and Improbable Encounters, Tanners’ Bastion, Targu Mures, Romania
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
Experience Peace, Classix Festival, Romania
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, 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, Braila Art Gallery,
Braila, 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, Iasi, 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, Galeria
Labirint, Iasi, 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
Selected Masterclasses / Workshops
October - November 2023
Storytelling with Photo Embroidery and Mixed Media with Jolanda Drukker Murray, StrudelmediaLive (Scholarship Winner)
October 2023 - May 2024
Folio 2023/24 Masterclass On Photobook, PhMuseum and Witty Books (Winner)
2023
Unveil x Futures Photography (Futures Artist)
Online Tutoring with Emese Mucsi, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center Budapest (Winner)
45. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass, Germany (Selected)
2022-2025
Magnum Photos x Futures Photography (Futures Artist)
2022
Futures Photography with
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs,
Camera
- Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Italy (Futures Artist)
M&C Saatchi Open House
44. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass, Germany (Selected)
© Martyna Benedyka 2023
