Meet the Artist
Marketa
Holtebrinck
Printmaking; Sculpture
“I make prints and objects that claim three-dimensionality, many of them close readings of surfaces and textures. It’s not the pattern that animates my making, but the sensing of the ‘skin’ of things that hints at a ‘body’ underneath. I work with materials as a way to understand the behaviour of matter around me and myself as part of it. ”

Marketa Holtebrinck is a interdisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada) working between print and sculpture. Deeply attentive to the transitory nature of life processes in which humans are but one of many actors, Marketa's practice responds to spaces she tenuously calls home. Casting in plaster, layering and laminating paper, bringing materials to touch and carrying the intermittent new realities between out-of-doors and the studio, Marketa creates forms of material context that draw audience in through a deep sense of embodied experience.In summer 2024 Marketa worked in Remai Modern Art Centre in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada), editioning the latest print project for William Kentridge in a collaborative printmaking exhibition Life Editions: Jillian Ross Print with Master printer Jillian Ross.In 2025 Marketa spent five months in Glasgow School of Art (UK) making large prints and cyanotypes, hiking in the Campsie Fells and collecting raw wool in the hills for ephemeral future projects.Marketa will be graduating from OCAD U in 2026.
Glasgow School of Art
Painting and Printmaking, International Exchange
Minor Completed, 2025
Sheridan College
Art Fundamentals
Major Completed, 2021
U of T
Comparative Literature, MA
Major Completed, 2012
Printmaking - woodcut, intaglio, screen printing Alternative photography - cyanotype, salt print 3D paper lamination Bronze casting Clay sculpture Ceramics Writing
2026, Immortal Jellyfish (upcoming)
Ada Slaight Gallery
2026, Leave No Tape Behind
Gallery 1313
2026, Pentimento III
Ada Slaight Gallery
2025, Oh to Believe in Another World
FAB Gallery, Edmonton
2025, TwoFold
Strange Field Gallery, Glasgow UK
2024, Awenda Inspired
Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto
2024, SCIN Festival
OCAD U
2024, Reignite & Reinvent
OCAD U
2023, Pentimento
Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto
2021, Remote: Art from the Pandemic
Sheridan College
2026, OPEN STUDIO Career Launcher
OCAD U
2025, Bursary in Art & Design in Honour of Rosalie Sharp
St. George's Society of Toronto
2021, Sybil Goldstein Painting Award
Sheridan College
2014, Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
