My art practice is theme-based and I work across different mediums mainly painting, hand printing, photography and drawing. This is because the content of my work often dictates the medium- or several in combination. But also because I love experimenting.
Although the starting point for a theme is often a news item, it can also be something personal. However, these two strands inevitably weave in and out of one another and whatever my intention for the work, on completion it can surprise me, it reveals itself to me, and I think “oh, so that’s what it’s about!”
I always hope that people will engage with my artwork- that its life is extended through the personal narratives they bring to it and through the emotions it evokes in them.
art education & qualifications
Diploma Contemporary Portraiture Art Academy London, 2019
MA Contemporary Art Practice (distinction) Kingston University, 1997
Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 1987-1990
Chelsea College of Art, London, 1986-87
Grażyna Cydzik is a London-based artist, born in Edinburgh of Polish and Polish-Armenian heritage. She has had an evolving art practice alongside a professional career in teaching, both in the primary and adult education sectors. At present she teaches English at a Migrants’ Centre.
After a period away from sustained art making, in 2017 Grażyna enrolled on a 2 year Diploma Course in Contemporary Portraiture at Art Academy London.
selected group exhibitions and with Riverside Artists Group (RAG)
2026
February
Light : Dark
London Independent Photography
Espacio Gallery, London
2025
November
ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
November
RagAnnual 25 (RAG)
Posk, London
October
Pop Up
The Secret Salon
Create and Destroy Studios, London
August – September
‘Land/Sea/Sky’
Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
England
April
‘Listen’
London Independent Photography (CLIP)
Espacio Gallery, London
March – May
‘Do Geese See God’
Riverside Artists Group (RAG)
Riverside Studios, London
2024
December
‘Here and Now’
Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
England
November
RagAnnual 24 (RAG)
POSK, London
October – November
‘Dwellings’
Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
England
October – ongoing
’The Unfinished Work’
Instagram @haus_a_rest
October 6 live-ongoing
Art Zine Issue 53
www.haus-a-rest.com
August
’Timeframe’
Pop-Up Photo Exhibition with 8 photographers
Organised by Maria Falconer and Paul Hill
Cromford Mills Education Room
Derbyshire
England
July – August
Summer Exhibition
The Gallery G & S
London
Jakar International Award For Oil Pastel
June
ArtBox Projects
Showing on digital screen ‘Unsafe’
Basel
Switzerland
January
Construction: Disclosure
London Independent Photography
Espacio Gallery London
2023
December
Spectrum Miami Art Show
Miami Art Week
ArtBox Projects
Miami USA
November
ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
Online until December 31
November
Borders (RAG)
POSK, London
September – January
RWA 170 Annual Open Exhibition
RWA, Bristol, England
September
SWISSARTEXPO
Artbox.Project Zurich 5.0
Zurich Mainline Station, Zurich, Switzerland
June – August
Royal Academy London Summer Exhibition
May – June
‘Going Going’
Featured in ‘MAYDAY MAYDAY’ (RAG)
24 artists on Instagram
2022
November
ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
Online until December 31
September – October
Many Rivers to Cross (RAG)
Riverside Studios, London
July
4 Paintings at Hallam Conference Centre, London (RAG)
April – May
Postcards from the River’s Edge (RAG)
Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames, England
2021
Online July – September
Figurative Art Now
Federation of British Artists
Mall Galleries, London
Online from May
‘response – at a distance’ (RAG)
www.riversideartistsgroup.com/response
A project devised and overseen by Grażyna Cydzik
Works by seven artists created in response to each other’s work over a period of 4 months in the latter part of Lockdown
March – April
Messages from Somewhere. A project on Instagram by 36 artists. (RAG)
Each day within the allotted period one artist posted one image and one piece of text (which contained a randomly selected word from the Swadesh List)
January – March
’64 days’
Online only
Hammersmith and Fulham ArtsFest, London
2020
December – June
Huddle Winter Art Show
London
November – December
ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
An online exhibition by 16 group members which went live on July 4 2020 (RAG)
Originating in a proposal by Grażyna Cydzik to group members during Lockdown to make one drawing every day for four weeks beginning 25 April, the entire project was overseen by Grażyna Cydzik. To coincide with the first stage of easing of Lockdown in England, it was extended to 31 May
2019
November – January
Part of Riverside@Riverside (RAG)
Riverside Studios, London
July
Graduate Show
Contemporary Portrait Diploma
Art Academy London
June
‘dividing line’ (RAG)
Central Space Gallery, London