Marta Chudolinska (pronounced who-doh-lean-ska) is a printmaker, draw-er and zinester fascinated by the mystical narrative potential of images.
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BORN: Pruszkow, Poland, 1984
CITIZENSHIP: Canadian and Polish
EDUCATION:
Sept 2008 – April 2010 – Masters of Information Studies at the University of Toronto
Sept 2005 – April 2008 – BFA in Drawing and Painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design
Sept 2003 – April 2005 – Studied Fine Arts and Technical Theatre at University of British Columbia
PUBLICATIONS:
May 2012
Boom Boom Boom: A Sex Anthology
Self-published anthology of woodcut and linocut stories, handbound, printed by Jesjit Gill at Colour Code
Spring 2012
Centerfold and comic in Shameless Magazine, Money Issue
March 2012
Contributor to Static Zine, Issue 3: Story of Our Lives
Winter 2010
Back + Forth excerpt, Broken Pencil, issue 46
Sept 2009
Back + Forth: a novel in 90 linocuts, wordless graphic novel published by The Porcupine’s Quill
Sept 2008
Cover art, Once by Rebecca Rosenblum published by Biblioasis
EXHIBITIONS:
November 2012
Wordless: The Art of the Wordless Graphic Novel, Café Pamenar, Toronto, ON
September 29, 2012
Madeline Collective’s 12-Hour Zine Machine, Nuit Blanche, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
September 29, 2012
Insomnia (redux), Nuit Blanche painting performance, Redhead Gallery, Toronto, ON
September 27 -29, 2012
Toronto Main Street Event Pop-Up Show, 138 Main St, Toronto, ON
August 2-31, 2012
Cut.Ink.Press. Relief Printmaking Exhibition, Jetfuel, Toronto, ON
February 27 - March 10 2012
Leap Year, curated by Woman King Collective, The Department Gallery, Toronto, ON
November 2 - November 27 2011
Toronto Draws Tintin, Steamwhistle Gallery, Toronto, ON
September 9 - October 7 2011
Art of the Woodcut Novel, AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, NH
October-November 2010
Strange Thoughts: Drawings and Prints, Linux Caffe, Toronto, ON (solo)
September 17 – October 21, 2010
Graphic Novels in their Purest Sense, The Holderness School Edwards Art Gallery, Plymouth, New Hampshire
September 16-19, 2010
Summer Ashes, 103 Harrison St, Toronto, ON
April 2010
Back + Forth, an exhibition of 90 original prints, Learning Zone, OCAD, Toronto, ON (solo)
December 3-13, 2009
Home & Away (& In-Between), City of Craft, The Great Hall, Toronto, ON
October 28 – Nov 7 2008
Me and My Sister, Transit Space, Toronto, ON
March 30- April 14 2007
The Show and Tell Salon, Sublime Café, Toronto, ON
Feb. 3-24 2007
OCAD Printmaking Exhibition, John Parrot Gallery, Belleville, ON
PRESS FAIRS and BOOK EVENTS:
November 17 & 18, 2012 (also November 26 & 27, 2011)
Expozine small press, comics and zine fair, Montreal, QC
October 21, 2012 (also October 23, 2011, October 24, 2010 and November 1, 2009)
Canzine alternative press fair, The Great Hall, Toronto, ON
September 23, 2012
Toronto’s Word on the Street Festival, Toronto, ON
August 12, 2012 (also August 21, 2011, August 29, 2010 and August 30, 2009)
Zine Dream 5 smallpress fair, Tranzac, Toronto, ON
June 30, 2012
Wall of Balloons Comics Festival, University of Alaska Fairbanks Wood Center, Fairbanks, AK
May 5 & 6, 2012 (also May 7 & 8, 2011)
Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, ON
April 14, 2012
Kazoo! Comic and Zine Fest, Norfolk Street United Church, Guelph, ON
March 10, 2012
Chicago Zine Fest, Conaway Center, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
December 17, 2011
Zine Zone, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
December 3, 2011
Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, Brooklyn, NY
April 24, 2010 (also April 25, 2009 and April 26, 2008)
Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON
November 27, 2009
Book Launch for Back + Forth, Lucky’s Comics, Vancouver, BC
October 6, 2009
Book signing for Back + Forth with Michael Eden Reynolds, Ben McNally Books, Toronto, ON
September 19-20, 2009
Queen West Art Crawl, Independent Press market, Toronto, ON
September 15, 2009
Book launch for Back + Forth, Robinson McNally Bookstore, Toronto, ON
October 18, 2008
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG) Book Arts Fair, Holiday Inn, Toronto, ON
December 2, 2007
OCAD Book Arts Fair, Toronto, ON
ARTIST TALKS:
June 30, 2012
“There’s More to Comics”
Panel Discussions with Jamie Smith, Layla Lawlor, and Jeffrey Lewis
Wall of Balloons Comics Festival, University of Alaska Fairbanks Wood Center, Fairbanks, AK
June 30, 2012
"Reading Comics"
A brief lecture on the conventions of reading comics
Wall of Balloons Comics Festival, University of Alaska Fairbanks Wood Center, Fairbanks, AK
January 21, 2012
“Alternative Literacy Panel”
Panel discussion with Daniel Payne, Christopher Butcher, Rhonda McEwan
Family Literacy Day, Markham Public Library, Markham, ON
May 8, 2011
“Building Visual Language”
Panel Discussion with Edie Fake and Brecht Evens, moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos
Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, ON
May 8, 2010
“The Artist Book and the Graphic Novel: Converging tradition”
Panel discussion with George Walker, Leon Rooke, Tony Calzetta and Megan Speers, moderated by Jeet Heer
Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, ON
October 26, 2009
Artist talk with Stefan Berg, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON
SELECTED PRESS:
December 2009
Book review by Patty Comeau, ForeWord Reviews
December 2009
Radio interview with Sean Cranbury, Books on the Radio
September 2009
Ten Questions with Open Book Toronto
May 2009
Radio interview with Sarah Feldbloom on "Womyn's World," previously aired on CHRY 105.5 FM
AWARDS:
April 2010
Back + Forth shortlisted for Best Book category of Doug Wright Comic Book Awards
March 2010
Back + Forth shortlisted for Best Graphic Novel in the Book of the Year Award, Foreword Magazine
GRANTS:
2008
Recipient of Ontario Arts Council Writers Reserve Grant
RESIDENCIES:
May 2010
Writer in Residence for Open Book Toronto blog
April 2010
One month residency at Artscape’s Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Islands