Born: 1964 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, E-mail: pravdo@techno-link.com

Education: 1993 - Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, Since 1996-Assistant Professor in National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia

Selected Individual Shows: 2003 - "Existing Objects"- ATA Center/ Institute for Contemporary Art-Sofia, Sofia 2002 - "Pessimism, No More", Musee des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland 1999 - "Negligible Incidents", TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria 1998 - "Vehicles Dream", Longwood Arts Project, New York, USA - "At the Level of the Eyes", TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria 1997 - "Between Thoughts and Talks", XXL Gallery, Sofia - "Territory", Akrabov Gallery, Plovdiv (C) 1995 - "Zwei Wege", BINZ’39 Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland (C)

Selected group shows: 2005 - “Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière-2”, Luxembourg, (Curator Enrico Lunghi) 2004 - “Flipside”, Artists Space Gallery, New York, USA, (Curator Katherine Carl) (C) - “On Reason and Emotion”, 14th Sydney Biennial, (Curator Isabel Carlos) (C) - “Interupted Game”, Gallerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, (Curators I. Koralova, M. Kolecek) 2003 - “In the Gorges of the Balkans”, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany, (Curator Rene Block) (C) - “Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan”, Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria, (Curator Harald Szeemann) (C) - “Export-Import”, City Gallery, Sofia. (curator Maria Vasileva) (C) 2002 - "Double Bind", ATA Center, Irida Gallery, XXL Gallery, Sofia, (curators Iara Boubnova, Georg Scholhammer) (C) - "Radiodumb", Zero Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Piacenza, Italy, (Curator Paolo Zani) - "Bound/less Borders"- Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Concept Biljana Tomic) (C) 2001 - "Escape", The Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania (Curator Giancarlo Politi) (C) 2000 - Manifesta 3, "Borderline Syndrome", Ljubljana, Slovenia, (curators Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Maria Hlavajova, Kathrin Rhomberg) (C) 1999 - "Bacterium Bulgaricus Art", Museum for Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia (curator Plamena Racheva) (C) -"Black See- North See", Open Air Museum Drecht Banks Sculpture Park, The Netherlands (curators Lucien Den Arend, Jan De Lange) (C) 1998 - "The Labyrinth", 2nd Int. Triennial of Graphic, Prague, Czech Republic, (C) - "Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II", Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany (curator Iara Boubnova, concept Haralampi G. Oroschakoff) (C) - "Black-Gray-White", Kerava Art Museum, Finland (curator Ljuben Kostov) (C) - "Back and Forth. New Icon", 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro, YU (curators Andrei Erofeev, Bernard Marcade, Iara Boubnova) (C) - "Menschenbilder. Foto- und Videokunst aus Bulgarien", IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany (curator Iara Boubnova) (C) - "Bulgarian Glimpse Show", Association of Moscow Art Galleries and BCIC, Moscow (curator Iara Boubnova) (C) - "Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova", 4th International Biennial, St.Petersburg, Russia (curator Iara Boubnova) (C) 1995 - "Orient/ation", 4th International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (curator Rene Block) (C)

Residencies: 2000 - Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 1999 - Open Air Museum Drecht Banks Sculpture Park, The Netherlands 1998 - ArtsLink, Fellowship, Longwood Arts Project, New York, USA 1996 - KulturKontakt Fellowship, Horn, Austria 1994/95 - Foundation ARTEST / BINZ’39 Fellowship, Zürich, Switzerland

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