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   Born in 1980, Bauska, Latvia
   Currently lives and works in Riga
   
   Education:
   
   2004 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting Department, MA
   2002 Art Academy of Latvia, Restauration Department, BA
   1998 Janis Rozentals` Riga Art Secondary School
   
   Selected solo shows:
   
   2016 Movement, Marc Chagall Exhibition Hall, Vitebsk, Belarus
   2016 Paintings in gallery ALMA, Riga, Latvia
   2015 Exercise - Greeting from Sun, Theatre "Juras varti", Ventspils, Latvia
   2014 Measuring space, gallery Tifana, Riga, Latvia
   2013 Hideout, gallery ALMA, Riga, Latvia
   2012 The Ball, (with Inga Meldere), Kalnciema gallery, Riga, Latvia
   2011 Sound Segment, gallery Tifana, Riga, Latvia
   2011 Time Pit, (with Krišs Salmanis), RIXC Media Space, Riga, Latvia
   2009 You Are What You See, gallery 21, Riga, Latvia
   2008 Contact Person, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
   2007 Resort, (with Inga Meldere), gallery Leduspagrabs, Valmiera, Latvia
   2006 Must Go for a Walk, gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
   2006 Silver, Gold, Plasticine, (with Krišs Salmanis), special venue, Riga
   2006 Summer in Valle, Amtmanis Brieditis museum, Valle, Latvia
   2006 At Seven o‘clock, gallery Pedants, Riga, Latvia
   2004 100% disappointment, (with Krišs Salmanis), special venue, Riga
   
   Selected group exhibitions:
   
   2016 Omega 3, in Mooste, Estonia
   2015 wall painting in Zagare Milk factory, Lithuania
   2014 Latvian Contemporary Painting, Rotko Art Center in Daugavpils, Latvia
   2014 group show in Preili, Latvia
   2013 Latvian Latitude, Gluckstadt, Germany
   2013 Survival Kit 5, Riga, Latvia
   2013 Duets Nr.7, together with Ilze Strekavina, Tukums Art Museum, Latvia
   2012 participating in contemporary art festival „Art Stays 2012“, Ptuj, Slovenia
   2012 Exchange, akku, Emmen, Switzerland
   2012 Important Contemporary Artists of Latvia, exhibition shown in New York/ Washington/ Chicago, USA
   2011 Is it that he does not seek the truth, but does want to influence?, Riga Art Space, Latvia
   2011 Balticum "Tides of Changes", Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria
   2011 Point Zero, VEF, Riga, Latvia
   2010 Experimental Station Laimdota, special venue, Cēsis, Latvia (curator)
   2010 I Die (I Live), VEF, Riga, Latvia
   2010 Survival Kit 2, special venue, Riga, Latvia
   2009 Residences Croisees, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
   2009 Moving lines, gallery Artforum, Offenburg, Germany
   2009 Cleanliness, creative space Tasty, Riga, Latvia
   2009 Group of Five, Community Theatre and Art Centre, Dubai, UAE
   2009 Underground Tournament, gallery 21, Riga, Latvia
   2008 Squirrel, special venue, Kuldiga, Latvia
   2008 Souvenir, VEF, Riga, Latvia
   2007 Sub rosa, gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
   2007 Autumn 2007, Riga, Latvia
   2007 Centro Periferia, International competition, Rome, Italy
   2007 Candy Bomber, Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia
   2007 Painting on wood, gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
   2006 Plain aire show, Jonava art gallery, Lithuania
   2006 Autumn 2006, Railway museum, Riga, Latvia
   2005 New Figural Language, gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
   2005 Alter ego, gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
   2005 Etonnante Academie, Saint Etienne, France
   2005 Objects. Painting on Wood. Postcards, gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
   2004 Paintings, European Comission, Brussels, Belgium
   2004 Autumn 2004, Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia
   2004 Border, gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
   2003 Retrospecive, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
   2003 6th Small Form Art Exhibition, gallery Rīga, Riga, Latvia
   2003 Autumn 2003, Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia
   2002 Watersupply, Pedvāle open-air museum, Latvia
   2001 Fireland, Pedvāle open-air museum, Latvia
   
   Awards and Nominations:
   
   2016 Nomination for Purvitis Award
   2016 Nomination for "Kilogram Culture"
   2014 Diena award in Culture
   2008 Nomination for Purvitis Award
   2007 Exibition of young Latvian painters “Candy Bomber” award
   2006 Annual Latvian Artists Union exibition “Autumn 2006” award
   2005 Culture magazine Forums award
   2005 Gallery M6 award
   2005 Gallery Pedants award
   2004 Art magazine Studija prize
   2004 Culture Capital Fond / Latvian Artists Union award Debut of the Year
   2004 Unibanka award
   
   Residencies and workshops:
   
   2013 HIAP residency in Helsinki, Finland
   2010 Nida Plain aire, Lihuania
   2010 Sveicarija Plain aire, Lithuania
   2008 Kunststipendium Bremer Heimstiftung, Bremen, Germany
   2008 residence in CEAAC Srasbourg, France
   2007 Arctic Week, Kakslauttanen, Finland
   2007 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
   2006 Jonava Plain aire, Lithuania
   
   Works in collections:
   
   Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
   Private collections