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Andris Eglitis
EDUCATION
2012 – 2013 Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), Ghent, Belgium
2003 – 2005 MA in Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
2004 Exchange studies in Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Russia
2002 Exchange studies in Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
1999 – 2003 BA in Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 – 2017 Lecturer in Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
2017 – 2019 Head of Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Artificial Light, Pop-off-art gallery, Moscow
2019 Playground for accepting your mortality, (with Katrina Neiburga), Klosterruine, Berlin
2017 Long Pickled Cucumbers , (with Katrina Neiburga), exhibition in Riga, Latvia
2016 Roots and Plastic, Ppo/off/art gallery, Moscow, Russia
Transition, Gallery Daugava, Riga, Latvia
Transition, KMR gallery, Kuldīga, Latvia
2015 Armpit (with Katrina Neiburga), 56th Venice art biennale, Venice, Italia
Creatures, Gallery Alma, Riga, Latvia
2014 Possible Place, Cēsis Exhibition Hall, Cēsis, Latvia
Dirty Modernism, Gallery Alma, Riga, Latvia
De/Construction, Gallery De Filatuur, Aalst, Belgium
2012 Layers of time and paint, NUNC Contemporary Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Near Ideal, Krome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 Earthworks, Mūkusala Art Salon, Riga, Latvia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Coexistence, Kisama, Helsinki, Finland
2018 Installation Nest with Andris Eglītis at Riga Biennale- RIBOCA, Latvia
TGLX6LDP Exhibition State of Future, exhibition hall Arsenāls, Latvia
2016 Will-O’-the-Wisp, Kochi-Muziris biennale, Kochi, India
All Mounds can be seen from my window, Bunkier Sztuki gallery, Poland.
2015 It takes imagination to build Reality. Narracje festival 2015, Gdansk, Poland.
Armpit. Latvian Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Impressions and Parallels, Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière, Belgium
2014 Survival Kit 6, Contemporary Art Festival, former Boļševička Textile Factory Riga, Latvia
Latvian Contemporary Painting. Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Cente
In Search of the Horizon, Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia
2013 Portrait of the Artist. Works and References, HISK Laureates 2013, Ghent, Belgium
...for an occurrence to become an adventure..., ABLV Bank collection for the forthcoming Contemporary Art Museum, Riga Art Space, Latvia
Purvītis Prize, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
2012 Survival Kit 4, Contemporary Art Festival, Tobacco Factory, Riga, Latvia
Cēsis Art Festival, Cēsis Brewery, Latvia
Important Latvian Artists, The National Arts Club, New York, USA
Is It That He Does Not Seek The Truth, But Does Want To Influence?, Riga Art Space, Latvia
2011 Thickspace, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
Tides of Change. New Art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, HangART-7, Salzburg, Austria
By the Amber Sea. 1990–2010. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
2010 We Are Fine, ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Figure, Gallery Daugava, Riga, Latvia
Illusion of Inclusion, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Awards
2013 Purvītis Prize, Latvia
2009 Nomenee for Purvītis Prize, Latvia
Residencies
2008 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
LANGUAGES
Latvian – native; English – fluent; Russian - fluent