Martin Budny

Martin Budny is a Canadian/European actor of Polish-Bulgarian heritage with over 25 years of experience in film, television, and international productions. Born in Baghdad and raised in Egypt before moving to Canada in 1987, his multicultural background continues to inform and enrich his storytelling on screen and beyond.Alongside his screen career, Martin is also a visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. His practice explores themes of home, travel, work, family, and belongingness.He holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute (Berlin/New York).

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Martin Budny is an artist who grew up in Europe, Egypt and Canada. He has exhibited internationally and made a return to performing in 2015 after a 10-year break where he traveled the world and got an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute (Berlin/New York).Much of his work explores stories from personal and cultural experiences that reflect on ideas related to travel, home, family, and belongingness.His paintings portray a landscape of color and intuition driven by an enthusiasm for self expression and self-knowledge. The works are inspired by a desire to make sense out of life and reflect a need for something more meaningful, something that brings out the JOY in our daily routine.

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Contemporary Art PracticeMy practice spans media, performance, installation, creative writing, and archival research. I work with anthropological and documentary strategies to examine how personal and cultural narratives take shape through movement, memory, and everyday ritual. Themes of travel, home, work, family, mythology, and spirituality recur as starting points for inquiry rather than conclusions. Through layered, process-driven experimentation, I explore how stories are constructed, carried, and reimagined — inviting viewers to consider their own shifting sense of belonging and meaning.

Framed by Praxis - Studio installation and self-portrait in process.The piece documents the studio as an active site of research, where images, diagrams, and handwritten fragments form a working ecology of ideas. Sitting inside this environment, the artist becomes part of the analytical field — framed by the very materials that shape his practice. The work examines how thinking, making, and collecting intertwine in contemporary creative process.2013

Migration in the Age of Cultural Production - Digital CollageThis collage merges fragmented images, archival textures, and disrupted color fields to reflect how migration is mediated, aestheticized, and politicized in contemporary life. Figures, landscapes, and symbols fold into one another, creating a visual field where personal histories and public narratives collide.The work examines how the movement of people becomes entangled with the movement of images — questioning who gets represented, who gets erased, and how cultural production shapes the stories migration leaves behind.2013

Poetic Capitalism — Artist as Labourer: Performance - Art DubaiIn this performance, the artist moves through the fair wearing the same blue coveralls worn by migrant labourers across the UAE—an embodied interruption inside a space built on spectacle, capital, and cultural prestige. The gesture reframes the artist not as a luxury producer but as a worker: anonymous, essential, and structurally invisible.Poetic Capitalism examines the labour that underpins cultural production—both the physical labour that constructs the art world’s architecture and the intellectual labour that fuels its economies. By folding these roles together, the work questions who is seen, who is celebrated, and who remains unacknowledged within the global art market.2013

The World — An Object for Aesthetic Contemplation: Digital print / mixed-media compositionThis work overlays the silhouette of the world map onto a painter’s drop cloth—an unplanned record of drips, gestures, and accumulated studio residue. By merging cartography with accident, the piece transforms a functional surface into a field of global abstraction.The World — An Object for Aesthetic Contemplation invites viewers to read geography through the language of chance: borders dissolve, continents float inside colour and texture, and the map becomes an image freed from politics and utility. What remains is a meditation on how we see the world when stripped of narrative—simply as pattern, rhythm, and form.2013

The Cloud: PhotographA dark stain left by idling buses gathers on the pavement like an accidental cloud. The photograph turns residue into atmosphere, transforming an everyday trace of movement and machinery into a quiet, floating form. The Cloud observes how meaning collects in overlooked places—where routine leaves its mark without intention.2013

Fine Arts:MFA in Creative Practice. Transart Institute in participation with the University of Plymouth. Berlin/New York 2014Performing Arts:Personal and professional development: film, TV, scene study, voice and movement, Canada/Europe, 2015 to present.Canada National Voice Intensive, Vancouver, Canada (1998 / 2000)Studio 58, Vancouver, Canada (1996 - 1997)Actor CV

Artist CV: Selected Exhibitions:Picnic - Osana Center, Cairo, EgyptAccessible Art Fair, Warsaw, PolandBorowski Gallery, Warsaw, PolandPeninsula Gallery, Sidney BC, CanadaBristol Hotel, Warsaw, PolandUfer Studios, Berlin, GermanyMila Kunstgalerie, Berlin, GermanySUPERMARKT, Berlin, GermanyToronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto, CanadaEmbassy of Canada Prince Takanado Gallery, Tokyo, JapanSika Art Fair, Tashkheel Gallery, Dubai, UAECampus Art Dubai, 1st edition, Dubai, UAEDXB Store, Art Dubai, UAEDesign Days, Dubai, UAETashkheel Gallery, Dubai, UAESugimoto Gallery, Tokyo, JapanSADE, San Sebastian, Spain52nd Peace Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, JapanGallerie Dentaire, Montreal, CanadaDesign Festa Art Fair, Tokyo, JapanDesign Festa Gallery, Tokyo, JapanSugar and Sugar Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

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