Martina Vanda @ Rome Art Week

Martina Vanda

Martina Vanda is a visual artist working mainly with Drawing up to and including Ceramics, Painting, Animation and is an author/illustrator of picturebooks.She collaborates with publishing houses, museums and contemporary art galleries.

This participant has not yet organized an event or exhibition in this edition or has not been included within an event or exhibition organized by another participant.

Data and contact details

After her studies of literature and languages (English, French and Russian) she studies Illustration at the IED of Rome In 2000 she wins a one year scholarship for specialization at the ESAG Phenninguen of Paris From 2004 to 2012 she lives in Barcelona where she reaches The Art Factory La Escossessa 2009-2013 she studies ceramics with Thomas Gruner and Jeff Shapiro

PRIZES & AWARDS

2021 Miami New Media Film Festival - con Alice in lockdown animazione 5'

2018 illustrators Exhibitiin - BBF Beijing Book Fair, Cina

2016 Illustrators Exhibition - Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy

2015 Illustrators Exhibition - Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy

2013 selected/ Itaca contest - Italy

2012 Illustrators Exhibition - Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy

2012 SEP recipient: the Government of Mexico published 87,492 copies of "¡Estela, grita muy fuerte!"

2011 selected / BIB Biennial of Bratislava - Picture book contest

2009 selected / CJ Picture Book Awards, Korea

2009 WINNER/ Premio Qwerty: Best children's book "¡Estela, grita muy fuerte!", Spain

2006 Annual Italian Illustrators (ed. Mondadori), Italy

2005 XII Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM)

2004 special mention/ premio Iceberg, Bolonia

1999 cumulus: student scholarship

GUEST ARTIST

2016 798 International Art Festival of Beijing - Cina 2015 798 International Art Festival of Beijing - Cina 2015 Lecture / "ceramic techniques" - Sintra Gallery - Gothenburg, Sweden

selected EXHIBITIONS:

2024 group / Carta Cristallina Illustration meets ceramics - art curator Elisa Talentino - Castellamonte, It

2023 solo / Back To The Fire – art curator Ilari Valbonesi – Fondazione Giorgio De Marchis, 9 June-27 sept, L’Aquila, IT

2022 group / invited artist / 40° Mostra internazionale della ceramica d’arte di Gualdo Tadino, Biennial of Ceramics, IT

2022 Contribution / Gianni Berengo Gardin L’occhio come mestiere – Museo MAXXI; art curator M. Guccione e A. Mauro, Rome, IT

2021 Festival / Alice in Lockdown (animations) – MIAMI Film Festival; Miami, USA

2021 group/ The smile of the sphinx - Collegium artisticum of Sarajevo, Bosnia. art curator Ilari Valbonesi

2019 solo/ Daily News - Polarville, L'aquila

2018 solo/ It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited - Sintra Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden

2017 solo/ Daily News - Polarville, L'aquila

2016 solo/ Pirandello e Kafka - Polarville, L'aquila

2016 group/ Il tè di Alice - galleria Nuages, Milan. (Bookcity 2016)

2016 solo/ Le Grand Bo - Interno 14, Rome.

2016 group/ "Illustrators Exhibition" - Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy (Italy, Japan, China tour)

2015 group/ "Portafortuna" - Spazio Varco arte contemporanea, l'Aquila

2015 solo/ Martina Vanda Works - Polarville, l'Aquila

2105 solo/ "Illustrated Ceramics" - Sintra Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden

2015 solo/ "Siamo tutti pupi" - Teatro Villa Pamphilj Scuderie Villino Corsini, Rome

2015 group/ "Illustrators Exhibition" - Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy (Italy, Japan, China tour) Itabashi Art Museum, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Kawara Museum, Ishikawa Nanao Art Museum

2012/2013 group/ "La Violenza Illustrata" - Casa delle donne Onlus, Bologna

2012 solo/ "VASILISA" - Love and Dissent Gallery, Rome

2012 group/ "Le Metamorfosi del Viaggiatore" - Palazzo delle Stelline, Milano

2012 group/ "Illustrators Exhibition" - Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy (Italy, Japan tour) Itabashi Art Museum, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Ishikawa Nanao Art Museum, Nagashima Museum

2011 group/ Ceramics - Maigallery, Rome

2009 group/ CJ Book, Korea

2006 group/ "Peer a colori". Ischia, Italy

2005 group/ "Artistas de LATERAL". Corte Inglés, Barcelona

2005 group/ BJCEM, XII Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean

2004 group/ "Iceberg" - Sala Borse, Bologna

2003 group/ "Un certo sguardo". Fair Piú libri piú liberi, Rome.

2000 solo/ "Ultimo piano" - MANIDOPERA. Cittá di castello, Italy

PUBLISHED BOOKS:

The Concert to be release soon...!

Adone Scienze e Lettere, Italy 2015

Sirene Scienze e Lettere, Italy 2015

Ménage à Deux TunnellingP editions, Italy 2014

El lenguaje de los arboles editorial Fineo, Mexico 2014

Les fraises sauvages Lirabelle editions, France 2014 Orietal Babies & Kids Co., China 2014

“El elogio de la educación: 70 imágenes de ser maestro”. (AAVV) Editorial FINEO, Mexico 2014

Je m'en vais TunnellingP editions, Italy

¡Estela, grita muy fuerte! 150.000 copies sold! Editorial Fineo, Spain/Mexico 2008; 2014; 2018 TunnellingP (auto)editions 2015;

ASTIST BOOKS Dillo con parole tue; The Kitchen is in the Chicken; Mon droit à la Paresse; A wonderful life; Merry Christmas

CLIENTS:

Feltrinelli Editore; Agenzia Contrasto; Ricerca e Cooperazione NGO; WEB Foundation Holland; El Pais Spain; Parramon Spain; Il Nuovo Rinascimento; Hamelin Associazione Culturale...

RETAILERS:

Milan: L'AFFICHE; B**K Rome: NORA P; L'IMAGE; FOX GALLERY; museo MAXXI L'Aquila: POLARVILLE Siracusa: SUDESTASI CONTEMPORANEA Paris: USAGI New York: PSBROOKLYN