Gastkünstler im Internationalen Künstlerhaus

 

Laura Dimitrova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria in1982. Since 1991 she is a member of the Union of the Bulgarian Artists.

She is professor in decorative arts at FPPE, “St. Kliment Ohridski” University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Since 2013 she is PhD. She works in the fields of painting, drawing, collage, paper art, artistic textile.

She lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. Up until now she taken part in more than 200 group exhibitions, plein-air sessions and art projects in Bulgaria and abroad.

Up until now she has had 14 individual exhibitions.

 

Individual Exhibitions:

1989 “Textile” – exhibition at “Rakovski” 108 Gallery, Sofia.

2003 “Textile” – exhibition at the Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Gallery, Sofia.

2006 “Collage and Plastic”- exhibition at the Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Gallery “Shipka “6, Sofia.

2010 “Wild Song” - exhibition at the Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Gallery “Shipka “6, Sofia.

2011 “Painting and drawing” – exhibition at Polomie Art Gallery, Lom, Bulgaria.

2011 “A Journey to the Earth” – exhibition at “Rafael Mihailov” Gallery, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.

2011 “The Golden Water”- exhibition at Alma Mater Gallery, Sofia.

2012 Open Studio at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France.

2012 “Voyage” – exhibition at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France.

2013 “Three”, at The Dzamia Gallery, Dupnitsa, Bulgaria

2014 “Paper Messages”, The Photosynthesis Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2014 “The Freedom of Silence”, Gallery GEDOK, Munich

2015 “100 Ways of Sayin Yes”. The Resonance Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

 

Prizes:

Second Prize for Drawing and Graphic Art at the Exhibition of the Artists from Northwest Bulgaria, Lom, 2005.

The Award “James H. Pinto” from 13th International Biennial Festival of Portrait INTERBIFEP, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008

In 2011 she won The Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Scholarship Award for Residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris , France in 2012.

The award for graphic art from the 6th Biennial of the Small Art Forms, Pleven, Bulgaria, 2012.

The award of the governor of Stara Zagora district from the Third Balkan Quadrennial of Painting, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 2012.

The award for Bulgarian artist from the International Annual Paper Art Competition of AMATERAS, 2013.

The award of the Art Gallery of Ruse from the 4 International Art Miniature, Ruse 2013

In 2013 Laura Dimitrova won The Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Scholarship Award for Residency at GEDOK, Munich, Germany in 2014.

In 2015 Laura Dimitrova won The Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Scholarship Award for Residency at Shwandorf, Germany in 2016.