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Education:
1996-1998 University of Texas at Tyler
1995 -1996 Tyler Junior College
1989 – 1994 Robert E. Lee High School, Tyler, Texas

Exhibitions
May2016  "Essence", Solo exhibition, Arosita Gallery, Sofia BG.  Sep2015  "Steps Ahead", Symposium and exhibition for Contemporary art, Blagoevgrad Bulgaria. Curator: Sasho Stoitzov.

Aug2015  "Imago Mundi", the Benetton Collection, Venice Italy. Curator: Claudio Scorretti.

July2015   New Paintings, Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin Bulgaria, Curator: Bogdan Aleksandrov

July2012  “Purgatorium” , video-music, two man show, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery

In conjunction with Yuzina Gallery, Curator Desislava Moneva, Sofia, BG

May2012 “Ex Nihilo”, painting, group exhibition, Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin, BG.

Aug2008 “August in Art” 2008 Varna Biennial for Contemporary Art, group
Exhibition, City Gallery, Curator: Philip Zidarov, Varna, Bulgaria

Aug2008 12th Annual International Symposium for Art, group exhibition, painting, Oriahovo, Bulgaria

June2008 “M-tel exhibition and competition for contemporary art in Bulgaria”,
Group exhibition, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Mar2008 “Collective Guilt”, “theprocess03,www.the-process.net

Feb2008 “Document(ary ident)ification, Contemporary Bulgarian Painting”
National Art Gallery, Skopia,(Macedonia), curators:Yovo Panchev(BG),
Menka Karapashovska(Macedonia).

Oct2007 retrospective exhibition of the St. St. Cyril and Methodius Foundation, group exhibition, salon for international artists, Sofia, Bulgaria

Sep2007 IV national landscape exhibition and competition, group exhibition, Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin, Bulgaria

Sep2007 group exhibition, painting, Ruse, Bulgaria

Aug2007 11thInternational Symposium for Art, group exhibition, painting, Oriahovo, Bulgaria

May2007 “Possible Responses!”group exhibition, spray paint on plastic sheet,
curators Ruen Ruenov and Yovo Panchev. Shipka6, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dec 2006 “relics of the process” individual exhibition, painting, installation, video,
Dauhaus independent art space, Sofia, Bulgaria. Curator, Yovo Panchev

Nov 2006 “national exhibition for young artists of Bulgaria”, group exhibition,
painting, Shipka 6 national center for contemporary art, Sofia, Bulgaria

Sep-Oct 2006 “the process”, individual exhibition, live creation of
paintings streamed over the internet, Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin
Bulgaria. Curator: Bogdan Aleksandrov. 

May 2006 ¼ Distance, Group exhibition, Nikola Petrov Art Gallery, Vidin, Bulgaria. Curator: Bogdan Aleksandrov

September 2005 “Polomie”, Group exhibition, Art Gallery, Lom, Bulgaria

April 2005 “The Painter of the World”, Group exhibition in memory of Pascin, Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin, Bulgaria

October 2003 “St. Dimitar” the Day of Vidin, Group exhibition, Nikola Petrov Art Gallery, Vidin, Bulgaria

April 2003 “Easter”, Group exhibition, painting, city hall, Vidin

April 2003 Abstract Paintings, Individual exhibition, Belogradchik Art Museum, Belogradchik, Bulgaria

February 2003 Abstract Paintings, Individual exhibition, Art Museum, Montana, Bulgaria

December 2002 “Inventions from old and new Places”, Individual Exhibition, Nikola Petrov Art Gallery, Vidin, Bulgaria. Curator: Bogdan Aleksandrov

October 2002 “St. Dimitar” the Day of Vidin, Group exhibition, Officers Club, Sofia, Bulgaria

March 2002 Abstract Paintings, Individual exhibition, “TEA” gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Video:
July2012  “Purgatorium”, video/music

Dec2006 “reject”, DVD video loop.
Screenings:
Mar2007 “the process”
Mar2007 Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin, Bulgaria
Dec2006 Dauhaus independent art space, Sofia, Bulgaria

Projects:
May2012, “Ex Nihilo”, Curator, with artists Bogdan Aleksandrov, Chavdar Petrov,

Mihail Petkov, Gordon Carter.

Oct 2006-2008 “the process”, curator, featuring the artists Dimitar Grozdanov,
Penka Mencheva, Bogdan Aleksandrov, and Nikolai Naidenov.
The live streaming creation of culture via the internet from the
Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin, Bulgaria.

May2007-Jun2007 “G-LAB”, curator, the Vidin GSM film festival, featuring the
film works of young students from the Iordan Radichkov
high school, Vidin Bulgaria.

Work:
2008-2015 Freelance Graphic Designer
2007-2015 Freelance Curator
Oct 2006 Curator for contemporary art projects, Nikola Petrov Gallery
Vidin, Bulgaria.

Prizes:
2007: “Nikola Petrov Prize” for landscape, IV national competition
And exhibition for landscapes, Nikola Petrov Gallery, Vidin,
Bulgaria.
2006: Prize for Painting, Cyril and Methodius Foundation, national
Competition for young Bulgarian artists, center for contemporary
Art, Shipka6, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2006: Prize for painting, competition and exhibition, Art gallery, Lom,
Bulgaria.
1997: Gertrude Windsor Scholarship, awarded for painting, University
of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA.
1996: Prize for painting, competition, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, TX, USA.