MAGDA RUCIŃSKA

Bydgoszcz ART/DOC Award Competition juror

Graphic artist, painter, author of texts on art, comic books and illustration. Her texts were published in “Lapma”, “Zwykłe Życie”, “Fabularia”, “Zeszyty Komiksowe” and “F5”. She has had several solo exhibitions, among others in “Wspólna” Gallery and Wieża Ciśnień in Bydgoszcz, Cheap East comic book gallery (Zamek Culture Centre) in Poznań, the City Gallery of Innowrocław and she has taken part in collective exhibitions in w BWA Bydgoszcz, MBWA Leszno, Bielsko-Biała BWA Gallery or Museum Schloss Herzberg am Harz in Germany.

She received the Minister of Culture and National Heritage scholarship (2009/2010) and the Mayor of Bydgoszcz scholarship.  A finalist of the “Bielsko Autumn” Biennale (2017) who received three special mentions at the Leon Wyczółkowski Nationwide Painting Competition (2016, 2017, 2018). In 2018, together with Damiel Chmielewski, she created an illustrated children’s book Miasto Złotej (Tadam publishing house). In 2020, she defended her doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Her works are a part of the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum’s collection.