AboutMargaryta Winkler is an award-winning visual artist from Ukraine currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work spans illustration, book cover design, and animation. She is a Fulbright fellow and a Rhode Island School of Design alumna.

Margaryta’s author-illustrator debut Homebound, a wordless picture book about war in Ukraine, is set for publication in late 2025 from Orecchio Acerbo (Italy).

If you’d like to work with Margaryta or just want to say hi, please send an email at winklerita(at)gmail(dot)com.

   

Recognition & Awards

Fulbright Graduate Student Award, 2023–2025
RISD Academic Fellowship, 2023–2025
Muskie Professional Fellowship, 2025
3×3 International Illustration Show No. 22 — Merit Award 2x, 2025
American Illustration 44 — Chosen Winner, 2025
The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase #6, 2024
Slanted Magazine #43 — Ukraine feature, 2024

Select Clients

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

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

Residencies

2017 The Comic Continent at the 5th International Picture Book Festival in Müncheberg, Germany