Magdalena Rucinska, First Parts VIII, 2019.

Magdalena Rucińska (born 1984).
First Parts VIII, 2019.
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

Cartoonist, painter, author of texts on art, comics and illustration. She has published in "Lampa", "Ordinary Life", "Fabularia", "Zeszyty Komiksowe", "F5", among others. She has had several individual exhibitions, including at the Joint Gallery and the Pressure Tower Gallery in Bydgoszcz, the Cheap East Comics Gallery (CK Zamek) in Poznań, the Municipal Gallery in Inowrocław, and participation in group shows at BWA Bydgoszcz, MBWA Leszno, BWA Bielska Gallery and the Schloss Herzberg am Harz Museum in Germany. She was the recipient of scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2009/2010) and the Mayor of Bydgoszcz (2016). Finalist of the Bielska Jesień Biennale (2017), she was awarded three times in the Leon Wyczółkowski National Painting Competition (2016, 2018, 2020). In 2018, in collaboration with Daniel Chmielewski, she created an illustrated book for children entitled City of Gold (published by Tadam). In 2020, she received her doctorate from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Her works are in the collections of the Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz and the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz.