Born April 14, 1933 in the town of Knezha.
Graduated from the Academy of Art in Sofia 1959.
From 1960 to 1975, when he left for Paris, he took part in all general
art exhibitions of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. He has been awarded
many prizes by the Union of Bulgarian Artists for graphic and drawing,
as well as for book illustration.
His first solo exhibition was in his home town of Knezha and the second
in Sofia in 1973.
His first professional engagement abroad was with a solo exhibition
in the Prote gallery in Paris in 1974, and the second in the Oster gallery
in Sweden in 1975.
After he left Bulgaria to live in Paris he held an exhibition in the
Mc. Murray gallery in London in 1976. He signed a contract with the
Regards gallery in Paris in 1975 and held his first exhibition there
in 1977.
Solo Exhibitions
Konstgalleriet, Sweden;
Alba-ronneby gallery, Sweden;
Cantofta Ifs Konstklubb, Sweden;
Telge Galleriet – Sodertlie, Sweden;
Galleriet Oster, Sweden;
Regards gallery, Paris;
Vatterbigden gallery, Sweden;
Hrl – Stafa, Switzerland;
Fontana, Stockholm;
La Cuvee gallery, Lyon, France;
Bulovska gallery, Malmo, Sweden;
Heden gallery, Sweden;
M. Brissago gallery, Switzerland;
Olga Est gallery, Stockholm, Sweden;
Villefranche gallery, France;
Kunstforemning gallery, Oslo, Norway;
Tradition 3 Thousand, New York, USA;
Nota Bene gallery, Oslo, Norway;
Watermans gallery, London, UK;
Finarts – Zug, Switzerland;
And others.
Luxury books of engravings
Mark Aurelius ‘Pensee pour moi-meme’
– Book Club, Paris;
Baudelaire ‘Flowers of Evil’ Dusseldorf;
Selma Lagerloeuf ‘The saga of Joster Berliner’;
Shakespeare ‘Sonnets’ – Stockholm;
‘Le Bestiaire’ – Book Club, Paris;
‘When the flame and the rose are one’, CG Edition –
London;
Mallarmee ‘Mytologie’ - Book Club, Paris
Has taken part in the Biennales:
Lugano, Switzerland; Sao Paolo; Ljubljana; Vienna; Krakow; Frechen;
San Francisco; Ibiza; Segovia; Heidelberg; Barry; Bilbao; Kanagawa,
Japan; Kochi International Triennial, Japan.
His works are to be found in:
Albertina Museum, Vienna;
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow;
National Gallery, Tbilisi;
National Art Gallery, Sofia;
The Gallery in Skopje;
Musee d’Art Sandria, Italy;
Musee d`Art, Sicily.
Private Collections
USA; Brazil; Bulgaria; Sweden; Switzerland; France; England; Japan;
Germany; Canada and others.
Awards
International FIAC Exhibition, Paris;
The award for fine art and drawing, Danville, France.
