Prezentare artist Ilgvars Zalans

Personal information

I L G V A R S Z A L A N S

Date of birth: 24.09.1962. Citizenship: Republic of Latvia
LV-1068 Riga, LATVIA


Education


1988 -1992 Latvian Academy of Arts , Department of pedagogy, B.F.A./painting/
1984 a€ 1987 Riga Applied Art College. Department of decorative painting
since 2001 Member of The Artistsa€™ Union of Latvia
since 2007 Member of international art org.a€ť d.fleiss& east west artistsa€ť

Solo exibitions

2007 Waiting for NOA, Terbatas Centrum, Riga
2006 Lonely planet and an other diamonds, gallery A7, Riga
Hostal Catalan, Rodriguez-Amat Foundation,Girona,SPAIN
Life above water, gallery Laiptai, Siauliai, LITHUANIA
2005 INDIA ... MOROCCO ,gallery LAIPA, Valmiera
Why this country seems so special?, Daugavpils Museum of Arts and Studies
2004 Ticket to Japan, gallery Mans`s, Jekabpils
Welcome to V.!, Locanda Antica, Vellano, PS, ITALY
Reconstruction, Centrum hotel, Viljandi, ESTONIA
2003 ANIMA, gallery Art garden, Riga
Landscape, Town hall ,HojeTaastrup, DENMARK
2002 exibition hall of Madona Museum
Jakobsen keskus Hall Viljandi, ESTONIA
2001 Landscape, The House of Architects, Riga,
Carpe diem!, gallery Laipa Valmiera,
2000 Epifany, hotel De ROME, Riga



Selected group exibitions

2007 Opening exhibition, EE Fine Art gallery, Cambridge UK
Talent-aid International, EPO Exibition space, Den Haag, NETHERLANDS

2006 Man in the city , Gallery PRATO, Olomouc , Praha CZECH Republic
ART DORS National Museum of Moldova, Chisineu, MOLDOVA

2005 Mouse, Utsav Foundation, New Delhi, INDIA

2003 Private space, art Museum Arsenals, Riga

2002 The Plate, porcelain paintings, Latvian Porcelain Museum, Riga
paintings & ceramics with latvian potterists, in4 Museums of LATVIA
Painting of the Year 2002. The Hunt ,gallery ASUNA, Riga,

2001 4 painters, Pskov, Kremlin, RUSSIA
1992 Latvian contemporary painting", FRANCE
Public commisions
2007 Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2007 , Cambridge, UK
2006 ART PERISCOPE , Czenstohow, POLAND
2004 City and industry, Open Atelier De Vrijplaats, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
2003 Landscape ,gallery Laipa,Valmiera (residency award)
2002 The Fall 2002 and The Fall 2001, art Museum Arsenals, Riga
2001 Visual art competition Landscape (residency award)

Professional expierence
2008 guest performaces Dubai Media City, Dubai , UAE
2007 lecture and creative residency in Haifa University, Haifa, ISRAEL
selfdirected painting residency in Cairo, EGYPT
1stInternational Symposium of Modern Art a€žd.fleiss & east west artistsa€ś , AUSTRIA
painting residency Villa Garikula, GEORGIA
2006 Art Simposium Eurointegration through Art , Chisineu, MOLDOVA
Art Simposium Natural pigments , Hucisko, POLAND
7th international Plein-air ZELWA2006 ,Sejny, POLAND
2005 painting residency in Fez, Chefchaoen MOROCCO
2004 VELLANOARTE 2004,2005 Vellano, Tuscany, ITALY
painting residency in Viljandi, ESTONIA
selfdirected painting residency in Praha, CZECH Republic
2003 painting residency in Zurich SWITZERLAND
International Open Air Painting& Drawing workshop Pskov, RUSSIA
2002 porcelain painting simposium in Zvartava Art center art management simposium TBILISI, GEORGIA
land art Labyrinth, ruins of Viljandi castle, ESTONIA
2001 ceramic symposium The Egg, Livani glass factory,

Awards , Grants

2007 TrophA©e Arts-up 2007 Award FRANCE
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, GEORGIA
Artist in residency The RodrA­guez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN
Artist of the month art portal www.artperiscope.com
2006 scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture And Science of NETHERLANDS
Travel grant Prins Bernhard CultuurFonds NETHERLANDS
Artist in residency The RodrA­guez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN
Eurogallery Award Scheme 2005 Bronze Award
2005 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation Artist of the month ESPECTRO web gallery
BEL ART online AWARD PORTUGAL
Artist in Residency Global Arts Village, New Delhi /RESARTIS/ , INDIA
2004 Artist in Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso /RESARTIS/ , SPAIN
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, SPAIN
2003 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation Artist in Residency, Hooje-Taastrup, Copenhagen, DENMARK
2002 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, Artist in Residency, Viljandi, ESTONIA

Represented in collections

Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko collection, The Artists Union of Latvia, Museum of Limbazi Daugavpils and Talsi art Museums (LATVIA), municipality of Viljandi , ESTONIA, municipality of Hoje-Taastrup, DENMARK municipality of Vellano,PS, ITALY,private collections in FRANCE,GERMANY,DENMARK, ESTONIA, LITHUANIA, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA.

Lucrarile expuse

Pictura - Grafica - 14 lucrari