Margaryta Winkler

Homebound
Dreamtracks
Look Up
Stuck
Static
In Search of Lost Time
How to Raise the World’s Happiest Children
Kate Atkinson Series
Book Covers
Illustrated Books
Miss You
I Had a Dream...

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Hello! I’m a Ukraine-born and raised visual artist currently based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Originally self-taught, I received a Fulbright grant in 2023 to pursue a master’s degree in the US and graduated with an MFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 2025.

Over almost a decade of making work for the publishing and editorial industries, I’ve created more than 50 book covers and illustrated picture books, editorials, poetry, and music. My author-illustrator debut Homebound, a wordless picture book about war in Ukraine, is set for publication in late 2025 with Orecchio Acerbo (Italy).

More recently, I’ve been branching off into animation and having an absolute blast mixing drawing with movement and music, my two life-long passions.

My work has often been described as touching and poetic, with strong compositions and layered textures. I work both digitally and traditionally, with a growing preference for the latter. You may notice there are a lot of birds in my work—it’s just something that happens and is beyond my control.

If you’d like to collaborate with me or just want to say hi, please drop me a line at winklerita(at)gmail(dot)com.

     

Select Clients

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
The Old Lion Publishing House
Laboratory Publishers
IlluSalon
Nash Format Publishers
Yakaboo Publishing
Knygolove
Local History

Fellowships & Awards

Fulbright Graduate Student Award, 2023–2025
RISD Academic Fellowship, 2023–2025
American Illustration 44 Chosen Winner, 2025
Muskie Professional Fellowship, 2025

Recognition

The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 2024
Slanted Magazine #43 — Ukraine

Group Shows

2025 Something Around Storytelling, Land to Sea, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2025 RISD Grad Show, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI, USA
2025 In-Between, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2025 11th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest, Fleet Library, Providence, RI, USA
2024 Illustration Graduate Program Summer Show, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2024 RISD Illustration MFA Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2017–2018 The Comic Continent on Tour, various locations in Georgia, Ukraine, and Lithuania

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