ILGVARS ZALANS
1988 -1992 Latvian Academy of Arts , Department of pedagogy, B.F.A./painting/
1984 -1987 Riga Applied Art College. Department of decorative painting
since 2001 Member of The Artists’ Union of Latvia
since 2007 Member of international art org. D.Fleiss& east west artists
Solo exibitions
2010 Eight Yellow, Organhaus Art Space gallery, Chongqing, CHINA
2008 Paintings. EE FineArt gallery, Cambridge, U.K.
S.A.P. Little VanGogh gallery, Bruxelles BELGIUM
2007 Waiting for NOA, Terbatas Centrum, Riga
2006 Lonely planet and an other diamonds, gallery A7, Riga
Hostal Catalan, Rodriguez-Amat Foundation,Girona, SPAIN
Life above water, gallery Laiptai, Siauliai, LITHUANIA
2005 INDIA ... MOROCCO ,gallery LAIPA, Valmiera
Why this country seems so special?, Daugavpils Museum of Arts and Studies
2004 Ticket to Japan, gallery Mans`s, Jekabpils
Welcome to V.!, Locanda Antica, Vellano, PS, ITALY
Reconstruction, Centrum hotel, Viljandi, ESTONIA
2003 ANIMA, gallery Art garden, Riga
Landscape, Town hall ,Hoje-Taastrup, DENMARK
2002 exibition hall of Madona Museum
Jakobsen keskus Hall Viljandi, ESTONIA
2001 Landscape, The House of Architects, Riga,
Carpe diem!, gallery Laipa Valmiera,
2000 Epifany, hotel De ROME, Riga ,
Selected group exibitions
2009 Undiscovered artists 2 , MartinGalleries, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA
2008 MARCHE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DU QUARTIER LATIN, Paris FRANCE
F.A. presente, Galerie Claire de Villaret, Paris FRANCE
Art Ireland Spring Collection IRELAND
Cambridgeshire Art Fair UK
2007 Opening exhibition, EE Fine Art gallery, Cambridge UK
Talent-aid International, EPO Exibition space, Den Haag, NETHERLANDS
2006 Man in the city , Gallery PRATO, Olomouc , Praha CZECH Republic
ART DORS National Museum of Moldova, Chisineu, MOLDOVA
2005 Mouse,Utsav Foundation, New Delhi, INDIA
2003 Private space, art Museum Arsenals, Riga
2002 The Plate, porcelain paintings, Latvian Porcelain Museum, Riga
paintings & ceramics with latvian potterists, in4 Museums of LATVIA
Painting of the Year 2002. The Hunt ,gallery ASUNA, Riga,
2001 4 painters, Pskov, Kremlin, RUSSIA
Public commissions
2009 My Brisbane, Martingalleries,QLD, AUSTRALIA
2008 Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2008 , Cambridge, UK
2007 Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2007 , Cambridge, UK
2006 ART PERISCOPE , Czenstohow, POLAND
2004 City and industry, Open Atelier De Vrijplaats, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
2003 Landscape ,gallery Laipa,Valmiera (residency award)
2002 The Fall 2002 and The Fall 2001, art Museum Arsenals, Riga
Professional expierence
2010 mass competition of graffiti art , Chongqiing CHINA
Organhaus Artist Residency, Chongqing CHINA
2008 2ngMeeting of Global Arts,Performance circle , Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Man-in-Fest Theatre Festival, Cluj-Napoca ROMANIA
1st International Openart Residency, GREECE
International Visual Arts Festival in Monastir TUNISIA
Open day at European Council, representator of Latvia, Brussels, BELGIUM
AnsanFringe Festival,Ansan,Seoul SOUTH KOREA
Helgarein Art Festival, Stavanger, NORWAY
PERFO 08, Pori, FINLAND
ILLUMINATOR , digital images, Koltcovo airport, Jekaterinburg, RUSSIA
2nd edition of ROLL UP ART, Bucharest ROMANIA
2007 lecture and creative residency in Haifa University, Haifa, ISRAEL
selfdirected painting residency in Cairo, EGYPT
1stInternational Symposium of Modern Art , Mallnitz , AUSTRIA
painting residency Villa Garikula, GEORGIA
2006 Art Simposium Eurointegration through Art , Chisineu, MOLDOVA
Art Simposium Natural pigments , Hucisko, POLAND
7th international Plein-air ZELWA2006 ,Sejny, POLAND
2005 painting residency in Fez, Chefchaoen MOROCCO
2004 VELLANOARTE 2004,2005 Vellano, Tuscany, ITALY
painting residency in Viljandi, ESTONIA
selfdirected painting residency in Praha, CZECH Republic
2003 painting residency in Zurich SWITZERLAND
International Open Air Painting& Drawing workshop Pskov, RUSSIA
2002 porcelain painting simposium in Zvartava Art center art management simposium
TBILISI, GEORGIA
land art Labyrinth, ruins of Viljandi castle, ESTONIA
Awards , Grants
2007 Trophée Arts-up 2007 Award FRANCE
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, GEORGIA
Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN
2006 scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture And Science of NETHERLANDS
Travel grant Prins Bernhard CultuurFonds NETHERLANDS
Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN
Eurogallery Award Scheme 2005 Bronze Award
2005 Artist Fellowship, GAC int. Artist residency, Delhi, INDIA
Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
BEL ART online AWARD PORTUGAL
2004 Artist in Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso /RESARTIS/ , SPAIN
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, SPAIN
2003 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
Artist in Residency, Hooje-Taastrup, Copenhagen, DENMARK
2002 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation,
Artist in Residency, Viljandi, ESTONIA
Represented in collections
Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko collection, The Artists Union of Latvia, Museum of Limbazi Daugavpils and Talsi art Museums (LATVIA), municipality of Viljandi , ESTONIA, municipality of Hoje-Taastrup, DENMARK municipality of Vellano,PS, ITALY,private collections in FRANCE,GERMANY,DENMARK, ESTONIA, LITHUANIA, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA.