Born in 1979, Riga
 
   
Education
 
2000 - 2007
Academy of Performing Arts - FAMU, Still Photography, Prague (MgA)
   
Solo exhibitions
2014 THERE WILL BE DICKS!, Centre for Contemporary Art - FUTURA, Prague
  Pop, Gallery 13, Ostrava
  Pop, Berlin model, Prague
  Irritate, Club Final, Prague
2013 Who's next, Gallery Svetlana, Moscow
  Vj Bordel - „Party” as part of the event "Notes of Tukums", Baboon Bar, Tukums
  Všechny tadý jsou čuráci!!! (All here are dickheads!!!), Karlin Studios, Prague
  Photography Lessons, Fotograf Gallery, Prague
2012
Kinetic sculptures, Fotograf Festival - Off Limits, Holešovice Train Station, Prague
 
Angle of perception of visual information in contemporary time, (with A.Ter-Oganian), Gallery Kytka, Prague
  Riga, (with P.Pětiletá), Riga ArtSpace, Riga
  Riga, (with P.Pětiletá), Karlin Studios, Prague
2011
The Picture, Gallery 207, Prague
  Prague Biennale 4th, Tranzitdisplay, Prague
  Kurva Fix, (with P.Pětiletá), Gallery Entrance, Prague
  Exhibition, Recyclart, Brussels
2010
Early works, Month of Photography, Pálffyho, Bratislava
  My newspaper, V8 Gallery, Cologne
  Dumpling Heaven, NZM, Prague
  The 90's and beyond, Kunsthalle, Erfurt
  Oui, Center for contemporary art Oui, Grenoble
  GAF (with I.Kitup, A.Tokarev), Paperworks Gallery, Moscow
2009
90's, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
  Early works, Gallery Jeleni, Prague
  Shit in art (with A.Ter-Oganian), Gallery 36, Olomouc
  See what I see, Gallery Entrance, Prague
  My newspaper, Gallery NoD Box, Prague
  Forevers, Kino Bio Oko, Prague
2008
FAMU, Project space Canteen, Andrejsala, Riga
  Paní Kellerová nemá píču, Okno - NoD.Roxy, Prague
  The Medium is the Message 2008, (with A.Ter-Oganian), Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Prague
2007
Šunkový nářez (with A.Nikitinova), Gallery 35m2, Prague
2006
New wave in photography, Gallery Lumen, Budapest
2005 My potographs, Vitrine on Komunardu Street 22, Prague
  My potographs, Gallery Art-Strelka, Moscow
  Excuse me, could you please take a picture of me?, I.P.Pavlova, Prague
  Photo album, Gallery Velryba, Prague
2004
Photo exhibition, Gallery Forward!, Berlin
  Portfolio, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga
   
Selected group exhibitions
2014 Food is a central concept, Tranzitdisplay, Prague
  Artishok Biennale. A + B = AB2014, Mūkusala Art Salon, Riga
  Artbatfest 5, Visual Library, Esentai Mall, Almaty
  On the Wave, Riga Art Space, Riga
  14th China Pingyao International Photography festival
  Viewfinders. Contemporary Baltic and Nordic Photography, Riga ArtSpace, Riga
  Side Effects II, Grenoble Ancient Museum and Library building, Grenoble
  9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liège
2013 Nothing of the kind, 5th Moscow biennale, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
  Side Effects, Contemporary Art Museum Estonia, Tallinn
  Unceasing, Contemporary Art Centre KIM?, Riga
  Cargo Cult, MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, Bat Yam
2012
And so on and so forth, Contemporary Art Centre KIM?, Riga
  Contemporary art festival Survival Kit 4, Former Tobacco Factory, Riga
  Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel/Bienne
  Angry Birds, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
  The Naughty Ones, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
  TEXT= IMAGE, Contemporary Art Centre KIM?, Riga
2011
On.Off, 4th Moscow biennale, Arthouse Squat Forum, Moscow
  Hinterhalt, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund
  Distrust of Intelligentsia, Open Gallery, Bratislava
  Bread and Salt, Karlin Studios, Prague
  Prague Quadrennial, Galerie2, Prague
  Transgressions, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia
  Foto Festival Uničov, Uničov
  Emergency, Art space Loop, Frankfurt, Grenoble, Helsinki, Tallinn, Tartu
  NY/PRAGUE 6, Czech Center, New York
2010
World of a Moment, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
  Crash Test, XL Gallery, Moscow
  Keine Angst!, Tapetenwerk Halle C, Leipzig
  Freedom!, Exhibition of forbidden art, in the flat, Moscow
  Tape it!, Center for contemporary art Oui, Grenoble
2009
Artisterium, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi
  8th Funke's Kolin photography festival, D.I.V.O. Institute, Kolin
  Survival Kit, Shop Bohemia, Terbatas Street 50, Riga
  In Garage, LabGarage, Kiev
  The Head, Karlin Studios, Prague
  Psychology of the Future, Gallery A.M.180, Prague
2008
Bad Joke, Riga Art Space, Riga
  1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Winzavod, Moscow
  In/visible, Festival of Visual Art, Olomouc
  Michel de Certeau, Center for contemporary art Oui, Grenoble
  Die Wurst, Gallery Elena Kolbasina, Berlin
2007
Brak, Centre of Contemporary Art M'ARS, Moscow
  Mobile museum, Andrejsala, Riga
  Normal, Chantier Public, Lyon
2006
Charming nonchalance, Nogallery, Prague
2005
Untitled, Gallery Forward!, Berlin
2004
What is important?, Riga City Municipality, Riga
2003
ART Klazma, Moscow
2002
SEX-Social Exhibitionism, The Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga
2001
J.Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
   
Curated exhibitions
2013 Avdei Ter-Oganian, Museum of Russian futurist, Tranzitdisplay, Prague
  Photogram action, Bar Chomsky, Riga
2010
What is Czech art?, (in cooperation with P.Pětiletá), Cultural center Ilguciems, Riga
   
Residences
2014 Konstantin Smirnov and Vladimir Sorokin Fund, Moscow
2012
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2011
Solenzart / Marine de Manichino, Solenzara
  Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2010
Botkyrka, Stockholm
2008
Shargorod
2007
Chantier Public, Lyon
2004 Cultural City Network Graz, Graz
2003 Click Art 2003, Singapore
  Les Rencontres Photographiques d' été, Niort
   
Selected work experience
2013 Workshop Reconstruction / Interpretation, Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow
2012 Lecturer of photography at Riga Stradiņš University, Riga
  Workshop Not This Way, Ecole supérieure d'Arts de l'Agglomération d'Annecy
  Lecturer of photography at School of Contemporary Art - Scholastika, Prague
2008 - 2012 Lecturer of photography at Liepaja University, Liepaja
2009
Tutor of photography workshop Hide and seek, (in cooperation with C.Laurelli), Muhu
2008 - 2009 Photographer at daily newspaper Deník, Prague
2008
Lecturer of photography at Art Language Factory, Prague
2007 Lecturer of photography at College of Culture, Riga
  Tutor of photography workshop Paranormal phenomena at ISSP, Ludza
   
Awards
2010
Photo Sittcomm Award
2007
Josef Sudek Award