Artist ILGVARS ZALANS Nationality latvian Born [-]962 Biography Year Activity Location 1988 -1992 Latvian Academy of Arts , Department of pedagogy 1984 - 1987 Riga Applied Art College. Department of decorative painting since 2001 Member of The Artists’ Union of Latvia Solo Exhibitions
Solo exibitions
2010 Eight Yellow, Organhaus Art Space gallery, Chongqing, CHINA
2008 Paintings. EE FineArt gallery, Cambridge, U.K.
S.A.P. Little VanGogh gallery, Bruxelles BELGIUM
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 ,Hoje-Taastrup, 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
2010 Bridges EPO gallery, DenHague, NETHERLANDS
Creeping Corridors, re-C Art Space, Chengdu, CHINA
2009 Undiscovered artists 2 , MartinGalleries, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA 2008 MARCHE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DU QUARTIER LATIN, Paris FRANCE
F.A. presente, Galerie Claire de Villaret, Paris FRANCE
Art Ireland Spring Collection IRELAND Cambridgeshire Art Fair UK 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
Public commissions
2009 My Brisbane, Martingalleries,QLD, AUSTRALIA
2008 Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2008 , Cambridge, UK
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 Professional expierence
2010 mass competition of graffiti art , Chongqing CHINA
Painting symposium Zaporozje, UKRAINE
Organhaus Artist Residency, Chongqing CHINA
2008 2ngMeeting of Global Arts,Performance circle , Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Man-in-Fest Theatre Festival, Cluj-Napoca ROMANIA
1st International Openart Residency, GREECE
International Visual Arts Festival in Monastir TUNISIA
Open day at European Council, representator of Latvia, Brussels, BELGIUM
AnsanFringe Festival,Ansan,Seoul SOUTH KOREA
Helgarein Art Festival, Stavanger, NORWAY
PERFO 08, Pori, FINLAND
ILLUMINATOR , digital images, Koltcovo airport, Jekaterinburg, RUSSIA
2nd edition of ROLL UP ART, Bucharest ROMANIA
2007 lecture and creative residency in Haifa University, Haifa, ISRAEL
selfdirected painting residency in Cairo, EGYPT
1stInternational Symposium of Modern Art , Mallnitz , 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 Awards , Grants
2010 Kamiyama Artist residency fellowship , Tokushima, JAPAN
2007 Trophée Arts-up 2007 Award FRANCE
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, GEORGIA Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN
2006 scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture And Science of NETHERLANDS
Travel grant Prins Bernhard CultuurFonds NETHERLANDS Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN Eurogallery Award Scheme 2005 Bronze Award 2005 Artist Fellowship, GAC int. Artist residency, Delhi, INDIA
Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation BEL ART online AWARD PORTUGAL 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, USA
The Artists Union of Latvia
State Art museum , Zaporozye, UKRAINE,
Museum of Limbazi Daugavpils and Talsi art Museums LATVIA
Organhaus Art Space collection, Chongqing, CHINA
municipality of Viljandi , ESTONIA
GAV Foundation, Delhi, INDIA
municipality of Hoje-Taastrup, DENMARK
municipality of Vellano,PS, ITALY
Rodriguez Amat Foundation , Girona, SPAIN
Talent Aid International, DenHaague, NETHERLANDS
Little van Gogh gallery, Paris, FRANCE
EE Fineart gallery, Cambridge, UK
LoveArtAgency Gallery, Aichi, JAPAN
Khust Art gallery, Khust,
