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Renata Ratajczyk
 | Biography: Renata's style is very painterly, imaginative, often surrealistic frequently combining photography, painting and digital manipulations.
Many of her images have a dream like quality merging reality with the fantasy world. Country: Canada Galleries:  December 2000, Art & Soul Event, Lovesexxy bar / lounge, Toronto, Canada, solo show
 August/September 2000, Chiaroscuro, a group show in the ARTS N.D.G. gallery, Montreal, Canada
 (August 1999), The Arts on King Gallery - photography group show organized by
Steicken Lab, Toronto, Canada
 1997, Solo fine art photography show at Steicken Lab, Toronto, Canada
 1997, Solo fine art photography show “Fields of Dreams” at York Banquet
Hall, Toronto, Canada
 Fall 1995 & 1996, Ontario Society of Artists 123 & 124 Annual Members Show
 1994 - 1996, Regularly displayed her work during shows organized by the Ontario
Society of Artists, at The First Canadian Place, Toronto, Canada
 December 1993 & 1992, Toronto Photographers Workshops Gallery, Annual Show and Sale
 1993 - 1994, Solo show at the Laughing Bird Restaurant, Toronto, Canada
 November 1993, group
photography show at the Gallery 76 , Toronto, Canada
 1993,1994 & 95, "Friends of Ontario
College of Art Annual Show and Sale"November/December 1992
 Arts Etobicoke Annual Show, Toronto
Shows in the Internet
Galleries:
 May, 2000 - Digital Art - solo show in
the Digital Museum
 2000 - Monochrome Nudes - solo show, Esoteric Art Gallery
 2000 - Spring & Summer, Fall and Winter Digital Art Group show in the Esoteric Art Gallery
 “Fine Art Nudes” – individual show on the “Sensuous Line” magazine Website - 1999
 1999 - Polaroids SX-70 solo show, Virtual Colony Gallery.
 1999 to present - Digital Art solo show in the Esoteric Art Gallery
 Digital Art show, Virtual Colony - 1998
 "The Approaching Heaven's Gate" digital art solo show in the Pygoya Webmuseum of Cyberart in 1998/1999, presently in their Archive section.
Artwork is also featured in several other galleries on the Internet, as well as is available for viewing in 4 Renata's personal Internet galleries.
Awards: First Prize - Gold Medal and Kodak Trophy in the Pictorial Division in CAPA competition (Canadian Association of Photographic Art), Spring 2000
The first prize in Glamour photography from the “Popular Photography” magazine,
January 1997
The Best of the Internet Award in the Fine Art Erotic photography from the Best of Internet website, August 99
3-rd prize in the Fine Art Nude photography contest from the “Photography On Line Gallery” - 1999
The 3-rd prize in the Fine Art Creative
photography competition, the “Popular Photography" magazine, 1995
The 3-rd prize , the “Photo Life" magazine (June/July 1994 issue)
Two 3-rd prizes in photo contest organized by "LOT" - Polish Airlines and the “New Science Fiction" magazine – 1994
Two 3-rd prizes in the photography competition, the “Photo Life" magazine 1993
The 2-nd prize in the "Picture my Hometown” photo contest sponsored by AGFA, NIKON etc., the “Petersen's Photographic”, (July 1993 issue)
The 5-th prize in Digital Photography,
"The Photo Life" magazine, 1997
A merit in CAPIC contest (The Canadian Association for Photographers and Illustrators in Communications, spring 1996)
Six awards of excellence from the “Photographer's Forum" magazine, published in Serbin Communication’s
the “Best of Photography Annual” between 1993 and 1999
SEVERAL HONORABLE MENTIONS
Media: photography, and Digital Art Style: surrealistic Subjects: people, portraits and characters, and often nature as a background. |
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