prof. Ph.d. Manya Vaptsarova

•  11.06.1961, Sofia

•  Faculty of Applied Arts, majoring in textiles

•  NHA, Graphics, 1986

•  Professor, "Scenography" department, disciplines: painting and graphic techniques

•  PhD of Art History and Fine Arts

•  Union of Bulgarian Artists

• e-mail: m.vapcarova@nha.bg

• www.manyavaptsarova.wix.com/manyavaptsarova

Participation in group exhibitions (regional and international), symposiums on painting and graphics, competitions

• From 1986 onwards Spain, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Finland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, Turkey, Great Britain, Austria, Japan, USA, Serbia

Participation in international biennales (graphics and painting)

• Krakow, Poland; Varna and Sofia, Bulgaria; Kanagawa, Japan; Guanlan, China

Solo exhibitions

• 2015 Sofia, "Art Alley" gallery, "Beyond the visible", painting

• 2015 Sofia, "Alma Mater" gallery, SU "St. Kliment Ohridski", exhibition installation "Reflected surface"

• 2011 Sofia, "Alma Mater" gallery, SU "St. Kliment Ohridski", exhibition installation "Verticals - havens of light"

• 2010 Sofia, Festa Gallery, "Following the Bird of God", painting

• 2010 Eisenach, Germany, graphics and drawing

• 2009 Erfurt, Germany

• 2005 Sofia, Bulgaria

• 2000 Sofia, Bulgaria

• 1999 Varna, Bulgaria

• 1994 Krems, Austria

• 1992 Sofia, Bulgaria

• 1990 Sozopol, Bulgaria

• 1989 Sofia, Bulgaria

• 1988 Sofia, Bulgaria

Awards

• 1987 Biennale of graphics - Varna, Bulgaria

• 1989 Biennale of Graphics - Lubin, Poland

• 1989 Graphics Award - OHI "Ecology-89"

• 2016 Jury Prize "Enter into Art" 2016, Cologne, Germany

Participation in international graphic and painting symposia in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia

Participation in scientific conferences with publications

Compiler of NAA scientific publications

Publications

• "Eclectic Imagery and Visual Quotations." In: Collection "Design & Applied Arts", NAA, 2018

• "Subordination as a conscious purposeful approach to the organization of pictorial composition". In: Collection of reports, NAA, 2012

• "Imagistic possibilities of graphic techniques as means of enriching the pictorial language when visualizing the scenographic idea". In: Collection of reports "Achievements and trends in the development of contemporary design and decorative and applied arts", NAA, 2010

• "The Compositional Experiments of Cubism." In: Collection of reports, NAA, 2011

• "The Role of Children's Art in the Development of Abstract Painting". In: Collection of reports "The child of the XXI century", NAA, 2009

Works in collections

• Galleries and private collections in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Serbia, Hungary, France, Czech Republic, Sweden, Japan, USA