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Her animated thesis film Dreamtracks has screened at festivals in Europe and the Americas. Her author-illustrator debut Homecoming was published by Orecchio Acerbo (Italy) in 2026 and is forthcoming from Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (USA) in early 2027.
She works both digitally and traditionally with a special love for watercolor and colored pencils and can’t stop making stories about birds.
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And if you’d like to work with Margaryta or just want to say hi, please send an email at winklerita[at]gmail.com.
Recognition & Awards
2026 World Illustration Awards—Winner in Professional Animation
2026 100 Outstanding Picture Books by dPICTUS, presented at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
2026 Communication Arts—Illustration Winner
2025 3×3 International Illustration Show No. 22—Merit Award 2x
2025 American Illustration 44—Chosen Winner
2025 Northern Festival of Illustration Prize—Emerging Animator Shortlisted
2025 Muskie Professional Fellowship
2024 The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase #6 by dPICTUS, presented at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
2023–2025 Fulbright Graduate Student Award
2023–2025 RISD Academic Fellowship
Select Festivals
2026 Flatpack Festival, UK
2026 Filmfest Dresden, Germany
2025 ANIMAGE Festival, Brazil
2025 Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
2025 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Ukraine
Residencies & Programs
2026 VIFF Institute for the Moving Image, Animation Cohort, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2017 The Comic Continent at 5th International Picturebook Festival in Müncheberg, Germany
Gallery Exhibitions
2026 Tornando a Casa, Palazzo Di Città, Zafferana Etnea, Italy (solo)
2025–2026 Collaborative Futures—Small Approaches, Gmünder Kunstverein Galerie, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (group)
2025 Something Around Storytelling, Land to Sea, Brooklyn, NY, USA (group)
2025 RISD Grad Show, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI, USA (group)
2025 In-Between, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI, USA (group)
2025 11th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest, Fleet Library, Providence, RI, USA (group)
2024 Illustration Graduate Program Summer Show, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI, USA (group)
2024 RISD Illustration MFA Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA (group)
2017–2018 The Comic Continent on Tour, various locations in Georgia, Ukraine, and Lithuania (group)