Martyna Benedyka (1991) is a visual and sound artist, painter, photographer, coloratura soprano, and teacher. Working in a wide range of media including painting, photography, collage, installation, video, field recording, and sound art, she focuses on various concepts of existence, memory, and beauty.
She studied Art and Design at the Gray’s School of Art in Scotland, UK and graduated with a First Class BA with Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting in 2014, as well as Voice and Performance, Opera, Oratorio and Lied, Pedagogy, and Baroque Singing at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga and George Enescu National University of Arts, Iasi, Romania.
She has exhibited in the UK, Italy, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Estonia, South Korea, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and the USA.
Her work has been chosen by the Federation of British Artists for the Futures – UK’s largest annual survey of emerging contemporary figurative art at the Mall Galleries, London, among others. She is a member of Futures Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (winner 2022). She specializes in early and classical music.