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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