I’m graphic designer and artist based in Wroclaw / Poland. I was born in 1989. In 2014 I graduated with Master’s Degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia Graphics from Wroclaw’s Academy of Fine Arts. I ended as well postgraduate studies in Post-production of Film and Television. I’m focused on gesture and expression, trying to explore the uniqueness legacy of Polish Poster School. Living in paradoxical polish reality pushes me to create distinctive, high-colored and contrastive art, which brings me a lot of fresh touch to my anyways jocund existence. I’m still looking for a way to express myself. I create posters, paintings and video-art.
A few words about MSWORKZ
My name is Marta Szmyd
Education
2012-2016 / course
New Horizons Cinema in Wroclaw
Film Academy – History of World Cinema
2013-2014 / postgraduate studies
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw
Post-production of photography, film and television
2012-2014 / graduate studies
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw
Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media Art
Department of Graphic Arts
Major: Graphic Design
M.A. defence: A / 6 (excellent)
2013-2014 / chancellor’s scholarship
2008-2012 / bachelor degree
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts
Department of Painting
Major: Applies Graphics
B.A. defence: A / 5 (very good)
2009-2011 / chancellor’s scholarship
Poster biennials
2016
1st Ecuador Poster Bienal, Centro Cultural, Quito, Ecuador
12th Golden Bee Global Biennale of Graphic Design, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
14th International Poster Biennial in Mexico, Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
1st PlakatFest Poster Festival, Sztygarka, Chorzów, Poland
2015
2nd CO2 Global Poster Biennial, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, USA
2nd Italian Poster Biennial, Oratorio dei Disciplinanti, Finale Ligure, Italy
2nd ISPB International Student Poster Biennale, Labirynth Gallery, Lublin, Poland
>> SPECIAL PRIZE founded by Krzysztof Dydo / Cracow Poster Gallery
Film & video-art festivals
2015
18th International Film Festival ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA (VIDEO-ART section), BWA, Jelenia Gora, Poland
2013
9th International Short Film Festival Detmold (MUSIC section), Hangar 21, Detmold, Germany
2012
5th Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna Sea Garden, Varna, Bułgaria
>> SPECIAL SELECTION
Other
2016
Promotional video of 34th Season for Center for Contemporary Opera, New York, USA
2015
Poster design for „A Short Film About Killing” (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1987) for Cineplex Development Co. 50th Anniversary, released in Taiwan. This work is a part of the collection of the Museum of Design (Museum für Gestaltung), Zürich, Switzerland
2014
Lower Silesian Film Centre (DCF) – competition for and advertising spot
>> honorable mention
2013
11 SURVIVAL Art Review, Xawery Dunikowski Boulevard, Wroclaw, Poland
[BUSH TELEGRAPH] International Art Project
2012
Don’t Panic Poland – competition for poster theme
<< honorable mention
Group exhibitions
2018
Niezależny plakat filmowy | Independent Film Posters, Dydo Poster Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2017
Nordic House: Film posters exhibition, The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Post-Ecuador Poster Bienal Exhibition, Centre for the Meeting of Cultures, Lublin, Poland
Post-Ecuador Poster Bienal Exhibition, Galeria (-1) Polskiego Komitetu Olimpijskiego, Warsaw, Poland
Post-Exhibición Ecuador Poster Bienal, Antropological Museum of Contemporary Art (MAAC), Guayaquil, Ecuador
2016
G4 // Plakatfest // 4th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Casa cu Arcade, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
2013
VIDEOHOLICA SPECIAL SELECTION’2012:
– Dobrich City Gallery, Dobrich, Bulgaria
– Proccess-Space Contemporary Art Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria
– contemporary space, Varna, Bulgaria
2012
VIDEOHOLICA SPECIAL SELECTION’2012:
– Dobrich City Gallery, Dobrich, Bulgaria
– 5th International Video Art Festival NET and X-MAX gallery, Ufa & Chelyabinsk, Russia
2011
Master and Schoolboy, Galeria Oko dla Sztuki 2, Cracow, Poland
poster exhibition in hand with Prof. Mieczysław Górowski
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