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Ilgvars Zalans - painter

Born 1962, Latvia

Ilgvars Zalans, Painter
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Education

1988 - 1992Latvian Academy of Arts , Department of pedagogy (Latvia)
1984 - 1987Riga Applied Art College. Department of decorative painting (Latvia)
Since 2001Member of The Artists' Union of Latvia
Since 2007Member of international art organisation d. fleiss east west artists

Solo exhibitions

2008S.A.P. Little VanGogh gallery (Bruxelles, Belgium)
2007Waiting for NOA, Terbatas Centrum (Riga, Latvia)
2006Lonely planet and an other diamonds, Gallery A7 (Riga, Latvia)
 Hostal Catalan, Rodríguez-Amat Foundation (Girona,Spain)
 Life above water, gallery Laiptai ( Siauliai, Lithuania)
2005INDIA ... MOROCCO , gallery LAIPA (Valmiera, Latvia)
2004Welcome to V.!, Locanda Antica (Vellano-Pescia, Italy)
  Reconstruction, Centrum hotel (Viljandi, Estonia)
2003ANIMA, gallery Art garden (Riga, Latvia)
 Landscape, Town hall (Høje-Tåstrup, Denmark)

Group exhibitions

2007F.A. presente, Galerie Claire de Villaret (Paris, France)
2007Opening exhibition, EE Fine Art gallery (Cambridge, UK)
 North meets East meets West (Rijswijk, Holland)
2005Mouse, Utsav Foundation (New Delhi, India)
2004City and industry, Open Atelier De Vrijplaats (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
20014 painters, Pskov (Kremlin, Russia)

Commissions

2007Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2007 (Cambridge, UK)
2006ART PERISCOPE , Czenstohow, Poland)
2004City and industry, Open Atelier De Vrijplaats (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2003Landscape ,gallery Laipa,Valmiera (residency award)
2002The Fall 2002 and The Fall 2001, art Museum Arsenals (Riga, Latvia)
2001Visual art competition Landscape (residency award)

Other experience

2008AnsanFringe Festival,Ansan (Seoul, South Korea)
 guest performaces Dubai Media City (Dubai, UAE)
2007lecture and creative residency in Haifa University (Haifa, Israel)
 selfdirected painting residency (Cairo, Egypt)
 1st International Symposium of Modern Art (Mallnitz, Austria)
 painting residency Villa Garikula (Georgia)
2006Art Simposium Eurointegration through Art (Chisineu, Moldova)
 Art Simposium Natural pigments (Hucisko, Poland)
 7th international Plein-air ZELWA2006 (Sejny, Poland)
2005painting residency in Fez (Chefchaoen, Morocco)
2004VELLANOARTE 2004,2005 Vellano (Tuscany, Italy)
 painting residency (Viljandi, Estonia)
 selfdirected painting residency in (Praha, Czech Republic)
2003painting residency in (Zurich, Switzerland)
 International Open Air Painting& Drawing workshop (Pskov, Russia)
2002porcelain painting simposium in Zvartava Art center
 art management symposium (Tbilisi, Georgia)
 land art Labyrinth, ruins of Viljandi castle (Estonia)
2001ceramic symposium The Egg, Livani glass factory,

Awards and residencies

2007Trophée Arts-up 2007 Award (France)
 Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation (Georgia)
2006Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, RESARTIS (Girona, Spain)
 Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture And Science of Netherlands
Travel grant Prins Bernhard CultuurFonds (Netherlands)
 Artist in Residency Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, ResArtis (Spain)
 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
2005BEL ART online award (Portugal)
 Artist in Residency Global Arts Village, ResArtis (New Delhi, India)
2004Artist in Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso ResArtis (Spain)
 Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
2003Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
 Artist in Residency, Høje-Tåstrup, Copenhagen, Denmark

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, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Australia, Austria.


 
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