Gabriella Radujko is an interdisciplinary American artist whose work is a response to her practice as a librarian.

Motivated to keep select narratives relevant, Radujko re-contextualizes poems and works of non-fiction as fine art and artist books for new audiences. Agriculture, the mother of all arts, and “making special," a human behavior described by the scholar Ellen Dissanayake have influenced and guided her work.


Radujko received her Masters in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University (2005) and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from William Paterson University (1999).


She is currently working on two manuscripts.  One is a children's picture book about her immigration experience.  The other is a anti-memoir influenced by David Markson's, This is Not a Novel which channels her professional life in "Libraryland," as well as surrealism, the book as object, becoming a self-taught artist in 2017 and the personal papers of her paternal grandfather.  In the process, she became attuned to her experience of aging (as a kind of wilderness) and developed insights into one's essential identity's usefulness (life up to the age of 20) in charting it.

Education

2005 Rutgers University, MLIS

1999 William Paterson University, BA Communication


Solo Exhibitions

2023 A Book is a Knot: a 72 square foot gallery and library, Stonington, CT

2022 From Librarian to Homoaestheticus, Millbrook Public Library, Millbrook, NY

From Librarian to Homoaestheticus, Mercy by the Sea Retreat and Conference Center,                 Madison, CT

From Librarian to Homoaestheticus, Mystic & Noank Library, Mystic, CT202

2019 Things as They Are, Collective Gallery, Cliffside Park, NJ


Group Exhibitions and Publications

2023 Disegnare / Scrivere  an artist book made during travel/study program with                           Kalamazoo Book Arts Center in collaboration with Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in           Venice and Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, in Cornuda

2023 Slater Museum Shop, Norwich, Connecticut featured artist

2022 Book Paper Scissors, Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library,                         Philadelphia, PA

2021 Unprecedented Times: a Socially Distanced Art Project, Esther Klein Gallery, 

         Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2020 New London Book Arts Festival, Harris Place Atrium, New London, CT

2020 The Kerf, Edition, published by the College of the Redwoods, Crescent City, CA      

2019 Older but Younger, City-Wide Open Studios @ Erector Square, New Haven, CT

2019 5th Annual Branford Shoreline Art Festival, Branford, CT

2019 It Will Happen to Me as to Them, cover art, Up the Staircase Quarterly

2019 Theorizing that Miniature Books are Made from Pencils, cover art, DASH Literary 

         Journal, California State University

2018 Book Paper Scissors, Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 

         Philadelphia, PA

2018 Well-being, City-Wide Open Studios @ Erector Square, New Haven, CT

2018 Ark/\Hive, Institute Library, New Haven, CT

2017 Book Paper Scissors, Free Library of Philiadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 

         Philadelphia, PA

2011  Radujko, G. (2011). The 2011 Photo Review Competition Winners, The Photo

          Review, Volume 30, Numbers 3, pages12-19.

2010  India Time Walks with Angels, Peedam, Tamil Nadu, India, electronic book

2007  Love it and Leave it: Australia's Creative Diaspora by Nathalie Latham, transcription  


Curatorial Projects and Creative Projects

2021 Layers: The Art Life of Carolyn Shattuck, artist book review

2020 The Church with an Overshot Wheel, Co-producer of restoration of silent film based             on O'Henry's short story by the same name which appears in Sixes and Sevens

2020 Mystic Film Festival, Executive board member and Development Director

2016 Artcards Review research contributor, Artcards.cc, Brooklyn, NY (2010-2016)

2015 Faces of Westchester Libraries: Reilly League of Artists, Temari: Expression Through           Memory and Color, Considering Landscape: a Tour of the Library’s Art Collection:                 Bronxville Public Library, Bronvxille, NY   

2014 Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art -- Bronxville Public Library                                           collaboration: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2013 Bronze in the Digital Age: Rodin Reanimated through Music, Bronxville Public                       Library, Bronxville, New York

2007 Cipriani 55 Wall Street curatorial projects, gallery shows, opening day collection,                 Cipriani Club 55 New York, New York

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