NADEZHDA OLEG LYAHOVA

Date of birth: August 31, 1960. Sofia. Bulgaria.

Education:

1979-1984 - National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria

Professional practice:

1988-1990 - Art director at the Bulgarian National Television

1992 - Stage designer for Dialog Theater

1990- - Working freelance - painting and drawing (water based techniques),

paper plastics, objects, installations, actions, applied graphics

Solo exhibitions:

2001 - SWEET DREAMS, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

- IMAGES OF A TRANSFORMATION, Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art, Sofia

2000 - TALE WITH NO END, Book Art Museum, Lods, Poland

1999 - SOAPY REFLECTIONS, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

1998 - HOLLOWS OF METAL, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia

- EXPERIMENTS TO MEASURE TIME, TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

1997 - VARIANTS, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia

- SEA OF HOPE, National Theater, Sofia

1996 - ETERNAL CLOISTERS FOR TRANSIENT HEARTS, Art 36 Gallery, Sofia

- REST, Autumn Exhibitions, Old Town, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1995 - IN BETWEEN, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia

Selected group exhibitions:

2001 - DON'T LOOK AT ME IN THAT VOICE, Shipka 6 gallery, Sofia

- SHOP - ART (WOMEN AT THE MARKET-PLACE), St. Sofia Underpass, Sofia

- CHANGE OF PLACES, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

- SPIRIT AND MATTER, II-nd Festival of Visual Arts, "August in Art", Georgi

Velchev Museum, Varna, Bulgaria

2000 - BULGARIA, NY, Women Artists Collaborate, EFFA, New York City

- ANTESOUND, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan, Poland

- II International ARTISTIC BOOK Triennial VILNIUS'00, Arka Gallery,

Vilnius, Lithuania

- CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN ART, Archaeology Museum, Varna, Bulgaria

- CONTEMPORARY ART, City Gallery, Dobrich, Bulgaria

- THE END OF THE STORY, National Art Gallery - National Palace of Culture,

Sofia

- THE STORY CONTINUES, Solers Gallery, Sofia

- MIRROR, MIRROR, City Gallery, Russe, Bulgaria

- ON THE OTHER HAND..., ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

- SUBJECTS AND SHADOWS, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

1999 - OBSESSION, Central Mineral Bath, Sofia

- THE ALTERNATIVE GALLERIES OF THE 90-ies, Center for Contemporary Art,

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

- UNDERGROUND Festival, National Palace of Culture, Sofia

- CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN ART, Stadhuis, Dordrecht , Holland

- APOLLONIA '99 FESTIVAL OF ARTS, Sozopol, Bulgaria

- CULTURE-SUBCULTURE, Soros Center for the Arts, Varna, Bulgaria

1998 - CAPRICE, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia; Gallery for

graphics and work with paper, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

- CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN ART, National Art Gallery- National Palace of

Culture, Sofia

- DRAWINGS' 98, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia

- ARCHIVES, SECTION 13, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia

1997 - BULGARIAN ARTBOOK, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

- III INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL, Cetinje, Montenegro

- BLACK-GRAY-WHITE, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia; Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki,

Finland

- CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN ART, National Art Gallery - National Palace of

Culture, Sofia

- DRAWINGS, XXL Gallery, Sofia

1996 - I INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF PAINTING, Sofia

- THE PLASTIC IMAGE OF THE 90-IES, National Palace of Culture, Sofia

- BULGARIAN PAINTING, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia

- CHAOTIC-HERMETIC, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia

- EXHIBITION OF SECTION 13, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia

1995 - 30 GRAND PRIX, SECTION 13, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia

- AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia

- VIDEOHART, Soros Center for the Arts, National Archaeology Museum, Sofia