STATEMENT My professional activity until now has been largely determined with acquiring art education in 1990s, with current visual culture in Latvia and in the world, and with my self-employed artist experience. I am professional artist and accept this kind of choice fatality. Till now my creative work has been done with idea to visualize originative aspects of my existence.

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

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

Public commisions 2007 Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2007 , Cambridge, UK 2006 ART PERISCOPE , Czenstohow, POLAND 2004 City and industry, Open Atelier De Vrijplaats, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS Selected group exibitions 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

2007 Trophée Arts-up 2007 Award FRANCE Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, GEORGIA Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN Artist of the month art portal www.artperiscope.com 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 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation Artist of the month ESPECTRO web gallery BEL ART online AWARD PORTUGAL Artist in Residency Global Arts Village, New Delhi /RESARTIS/ , INDIA 2004 Artist in Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso /RESARTIS/ , SPAIN