Heliana Grudzien

Heliana Grudzien is from Paraná, born in União da Vitória/PR. She is an illustrator, engraver, painter and author/illustrator of children's literature. She lives and works in Curitiba/PR.

She has a degree in Painting from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná –EMBAP- and has a specialization at the Postgraduate level in Metal Engraving, Book Design and Illustration, and Posters at the Academies of Fine Arts in Krakow and Warsaw/Poland.

Performed  22 solo exhibitions and participated in more than a hundred competitions and collective exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, among which he received  mentions and awards.

As an author of children's and young adult literature, she has written and illustrated 25 books, receiving several awards. She has illustrated 36 books for various Brazilian and foreign authors.   

 The artist freely explores different artistic languages, such as neo-expressionism, hyper-realism, magical realism,  neorealism, surrealism, figurativism, abstractionism, metalanguage. She willingly experiments in her compositions with unusual materials, different supports and instruments, which result in rich textures. The themes she addresses are, for the most part, nature, animals, impressions and landscapes from memory, characters that populated her childhood and her trajectory, to which she lends poetic elements that lay bare her emotions and personal fascinations and make them universal. As she herself explains: “Art  in my case painting, drawing, engraving and literature̶  It is the result of a routine exercise that derives from a sensitive and at the same time distressing state. The duality – sensitivity and distress – moves my artistic creation, for the simple fact that I feel like a conscious and lucid spectator of the universe that surrounds me. As I produce art, sensitivity and distress echo in absolute and transform into full and definitive satisfaction. This satisfaction always points in the direction of maturity and discipline. I am then convinced that my next work of art will be better than the one I have just completed.