❛ABOUT ME

Greta Samuel, PhD
Illustrator | Lecturer | Artist-Researcher

Greta Samuel is an award-winning visual storyteller and researcher specializing in documentary and social comics. With a Ph.D. with honors in Arts, she bridges the gap between high-level professional practice and experimental academic inquiry.

She is the creator of the acclaimed documentary comic "emigracJA", awarded the prestigious IBBY Prize (2025). Her expertise in translating complex themes into engaging visual forms is further demonstrated by her 2026 collaboration with DK (Penguin Random House), for whom she illustrated "Moon Landing" as part of the DK Super Readers series.

Greta’s professional portfolio includes collaborations with Amnesty International, Adobe, Culture Trip, and The Skimm. Her illustrations have been shortlisted by Communication Arts and honored at the 3x3 International Illustration Show in New York. Her work has been exhibited across the USA, UK, Switzerland, and throughout Europe.

Beyond her commercial practice, she is deeply involved in artistic research (see: RESEARCH), focusing on sensory mapping and neurodivergent perception

She cooperates with the Illustration Agency "Oskar Illustration" from London, UK.

REPRESENTED BY: Oskar Illustration (global)
EMAIL: greta.ad.hoc@gmail.com

exhibitions:

• 2024 Nagła Wystawa / Sudden Exhibition, Abacus Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

• 2023 - "Sketchbook Has Power", Satyrykon, Muzeum Karykatury Warszawa, Poland

• 2023 - Nagła Wystawa 3/ Group Exhibition, Galeria Łazienkowska, Warsaw, Poland

• 2023 - "Sketchbook Has Power", Satyrykon, Legnickie Centrum Kultury, Legnica, Poland

• 2022 - Wystawa SAN do kwadratu/ Group Exhibition, Galeria Abakus, Warsaw, Poland

• 2022 - Wystawa Portretu/ Portrait Exhibition, Klub Kultury Przegorzały, Cracow, Poland

• 2022 - Nagła Wystawa / Sudden Exhibition, Elektor Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

• 2021 - 3x3 International Illustration Professional Show No.18, New York, USA

• 2019 - 3x3 International Illustration Professional Show No.16, New York, USA

• 2019 - American Illustration 38, New York, USA

• 2018 - Group exhibition "Editorial Illustration" ('Uwiklani w tekst, ilustracja prasowa') in Lublin, Poland

• 2018 - Group exhibition "Zygmunt Januszewski & Illustration Studio" (Zygmunt Januszewski & Pracownia Ilustracji'),
Warsaw, Poland

• 2017 - Group exhibition, "Live. Instruction. Exhibition Inspired by The Work of Georges Perec" in Zachęta, National Gallery
in Warsaw, Poland

• 2015 - Group exhibition, "Litho-Graphy" in Forno di Zoldo, Italy

• 2014 - Group exhibition, "Pictoric", Ukraine

• 2014 - Group exhibition, "Polish Print/ Hungarian Kiss," Latarka Gallery in Budapest, Hungary

• 2014 - Group exhibition "Public Space/ Personal Space," the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Hague, Holland

• 2012 - "Move" as a part of exhibitions at the International Comic Festival Fumetto, Luzern, Switzerland

• 2010 - "You + Me = Us" as a part of exhibitions at International Comic Festival Fumetto, Luzern, Switzerland

Awards:
• 2025 - Winner of the Grand Prize in the "Comics for Older Readers" category
at the Polish Section of IBBY's 2025 Book of the Year Awards, Poland.
• 2023 - Special Jury Award "Sketchbook Has Power," Satyrykon, Legnickie Centrum Kultury, Legnica, Poland
• 2021, - 3x3 International Illustration Professional Show No.18 Honorable Mention "The Art of Travel", New York, USA
• 2021 - 3x3 International Illustration Professional Show No.18 Winner-merit Gallery "The Cannes View", New York, USA
• 2019 - 3x3 International Illustration Professional Show No.16 Honorable Mention "Dinner in Tel Aviv", New York, USA
• 2019 - 3x3 International Illustration Professional Show No.16 Winner-merit Gallery
"Is the Film Industry Really Fixing Gender Imbalance?", New York, USA.
• 2019 - 3x3 International Illustration Professional Show No.16 Winner-merit Gallery "How to make a matcha tea?",
"How to eat with chopsticks?", New York, USA
• 2019 - Communication Arts Annual, Shortlisted in Editorial Category, New York, USA
• 2019 - American Illustration. Chosen for American Illustration 38,
"How Hysteria’s History Still Affects Women's Health", New York, USA
• 2014 - First Award in comic competition "Poetry comic," Port Literacki, Wroclaw, Poland
• 2013 - Second Award in the comic contest, Shalom Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
• 2012 - Second Award in the International contest "A well-designed book, let's start with children", Katowice, Poland
• 2012 - First Award in "IllustrationStartUp!", Warsaw, Poland
• 2012 - Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship for Outstanding Achievements, Poland

RecoGnition:
• Inspiration Grid
• Adobe Live
• Abdz.do

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