1967 Born in Sofia, Bulgaria 2001 Member of Union of the Bulgarian Artists
Awards 2010 Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2006 Audience Award, Competition organized by H. Schmincke & Co. Honorary Diploma, Small Forms Biennial, Pleven 2006 2002 Honorary Diploma, Small Forms Biennial, Pleven 2002
Solo Exhibitions 2010 BIOTOPE, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia; 2008 IMAGES FROM NOWHERE, Agrion Gallery, Sofia; 2006 REMAINS, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia; 2005 ELEMENTS (with Leda Startcheva – sculpture), Rakursi Gallery, Sofia; 2003 CREATION, Kozhuharovi Gallery, Sofia; BETWEEN TWO DREAMS, Triadiss Gallery, Sofia; 2001 SELECTED WORKS, Kempinski & Zografski Hotel, Sofia; 1999 WORKS ON PAPER, Dritta Gallery, Sofia; 1996 REMAINS, Ata-ray Gallery & Sheraton Hotel, Sofia; 1995 SELECTED WORKS, Vitosha Gallery, Sofia; 1992 SELECTED WORKS, Palace of Culture, Vratsa, Bulgaria;
Group Exhibitions: 2011 SECTION 13, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; World Art Games - Vukovar 2011, Vukovar, Croatia; 2010 SECTION 13, INDUSTRIALNA 11 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; Art Paths, Schabla Town Gallery, Schabla, Bulgaria; 2009 Dvaja Bratia (Two Brothers), Bratislava, Slovakia / Sofia, Bulgaria Reality & Fiction, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; T-A-P-E INVITES at Made in Arnhem 2009, Arnhem, the Netherlands, Catalogue; Environmental Justice, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2008 Uninhibited Contacts, Argos Gallery, Sofia, Catalogue; National Exhibition Close Distance, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; Biotope I - Installation at August in Art 2008 Biennale, Varna City Gallery; The Steps of Time, May Gallery, Sliven, Bulgaria, Catalogue; 2007 Generations’ Dialog, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; Traffic, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; Cultural Identity, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia & Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, CT, USA; Balance, curator D. Grozdanov, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; 2006 National Competition organized by SCHMINCKE – Audience Award The Body, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; National Exhibition The Drawing, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; 2005 National Exhibition Portrait, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; Personal Mythologies, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; 2004 Café Life 2 Exhibition, Rousse, curator Olimpia Nikolova; Landscape, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; 2003 Water Techniques, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; 10 Years Izkustvo/Art in Bulgaria Magazine; The Figure Painting, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; Five Bulgarian Artists, Bulgarian Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark; Vlasina 2003, Leskovac Cultural Center, Leskovac, Serbia, Catalogue; Café Life Exhibition, Sofia, curator Olimpia Nikolova; 2002 National Exhibition Interior, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; Bulgarian Painting after 1989, National Palace of Culture, Sofia; 2001 National Exhibition Painting, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; 2000 National Exhibition Young Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery; 1996 International Painting Triennial, Sofia; 1995-01 Spiritual Messages (Series of Exhibitions), Vitosha Gallery, Sofia; 1994 New Names, Shipka 6 Gallery /Union of Bulgarian Artists/;
Residencies & Art Colonies: 2011 World Art Games - Vukovar 2011, Vukovar, Croatia; 2010 Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; 2010 Art Paths, 5. Art Colony, Krapets, Bulgaria; 2008 The Steps of Time, 7. Art Colony, Sliven, Bulgaria; 2007 Art Colony Oryahovo 2007, Oryahovo, Bulgaria; Uninhibited Contacts, 2. Art Symposium, Nessebar, Bulgaria; VIII Watercolor Art Colony “D. Uzunov”, Sozopol, Bulgaria; 2006 VII Watercolor Art Colony “D. Uzunov”, Sozopol, Bulgaria; 2004 Sozopol Art Colony, Bulgaria; 2003 Vlasina 2003, Leskovac Cultural Center, Leskovac, Serbia;
Collections: Collection Gaudenz B. Ruf, Zürich, Switzerland; Collection Vukovar Town Museum, Croatia; Collection World Art Games, Osijek, Croatia; Collection Town of Shabla, Bulgaria; Collection Museum “Dechko Usunov”, Sofia, Bulgaria; Collection Cultural Center of Leskovac, Leskovac, Serbia; Collection Department of State, Washington, USA
Selected reviews: 2010 St. Yanakieva, Our Place for Life, KULTURA Weekly, No. 14, 16.04.2010; P. Nikolova, BIOTOPE, A Week in Sofia Weekly, 26.03.2010; 2006 M. Dimova, "Remains" of Metal Fight the Industrial Society, SEGA Daily, 16.08.2006; 2005 N. Dimitrova, A Painter and a Sculptress Enchant Elements, SEGA Daily, 27.09.2005; 2003 V. Barova, Slav Nedev between Two Dreams, Compass, 26.IX; D. Lyubomirova, Art Is Not Journalism, Arch&Art, 29.X; Th. Vulcheva, The Pastel Technique in the Works of Four Bulgarian Artists, ART LIMES Magazine, Issue 2, 2003, Hungary; 2001 D. G. Dimitrov, Izkustvoto na XX vek - Sudbata na avangarda (The Art of the 20th century - The Fate of the Avant-garde), Prosveta-Sofia AD, ISBN: 9540109345 2000 St. Yanakieva, Young Artists of the ’90, Izkustvo/Art in Bulgaria Magazine, 75-77, 2000;
