Julia Medinska, Three Graces, 2020

oil, canvas, 50 x 40 cm signed and dated on the reverse: Julia Medyńska/2020

Julia Medyńska (1981, Gdansk) Painter, illustrator and actress. In 1985, as a little girl, she fled with her family to West Berlin. She found an outlet for her emotions in art - art classes taught her to pour her observations onto canvas. After graduating from high school, the artist moved to New York to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and The Neighborhood Playhouse. At the theater, she observed movement, poses and gestures, which are reflected in the dynamic frames of the painter's works. She has performed at the OFF-Broadway Manhattan Ensemble Theatre. In 2009, she took up visual arts studies at Columbia University, earning an MFA, and is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship. (2021).

Education:

2017 MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY.

2013 BA, Columbia University, New York, NY

Teaching:

2015 Teaching Assistant, Drawing I, Columbia University, New York, NY

2016 Teaching Assistant, Painting I, Columbia University, New York, NY


Selected solo exhibitions:

2024 SALIGIA, Warsaw, Poland
2024 Arsenal, Poznań, Poland
2023 Nocturnal Animals, Cracow, Poland
2023 Nächtliche Streifzüge, Zürich, Switzerland
2022/12 Office Space Gallery, Salt Lake City, USA.
2022/12 Women's Rights Center, Poznan, Poland
2022/11 Artinfo, Warsaw, Poland
2022 What We Left Behind, ATC Gallery, Tenerife, Spain.
2022 What We Left Behind, Gate Tower, Zbąszyń, Poland
2022 Again , Krakauer Haus, Nuremberg, Germany(with Malgorzata Markiewicz).
2022 Lost & found, Modulgalerie, Nuremberg, Germany (with Malgorzata Markiewicz)
2022 Queen's Paradise, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2022 Aurora, Lubuskie Museum, Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland.
2021/10 State Gallery of Art, Sopot, Poland
2021 Skin as White as Snow, School Gallery, London, UK
2021 Masquerade, Museum of Miedzyrzecka Land, Miedzyrzecz, Poland.



Group exhibitions:

2021 Summer Shorts, ATC Gallery, Tenerife, Spain.

2018 The Visible Light, Menier Gallery, London, UK

2017 MFA Thesis Show, The Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2017 MFA Summer Show, False Flag, Queens, NY

2016 Finished Goods Warehouse, 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

2015 MFA First Year Show, The Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2015 Floating Point, Judith Charles Gallery, New York, NY

2015 People who need People, 7 Dunham, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Floaters, The Leroy Neiman Gallery , New York, NY

2012 Columbia Summer Painting Intensive,The Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY



Awards: 2024 Stills, NADA Villa, Warsaw, Poland.

2021 The Elizabeth Greeshields Foundation Grant Recipient 2021

2020 The Elizabeth Greeshields Foundation Grant Recipient 2020

2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, NY, NY.

2014-2016 Visual Arts Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY

2014-2016 Brevoort Eickemeyer Grant, Columbia University, New York, NY

2012-2013 F.B. Doniger Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, NY

2010-2012 Olga H. Knoepke Scholarship,Columbia University, New York, NY



Publications:

2021/07 format, art magazine (interview).

2021/06 Contemporary LYNX, art magazine (article)

2021/01 New American Paintings, MFA Edition

2020/11 Market and Art, art magazine (interview)

2020/11 Jackson's Art (online interview)