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Education
2022 - 2024 Art Academy of Latvia, MA Distinction Sculpture
2018 - 2022 Art Academy of Latvia, BA Hons (1st) Sculpture
2016 - 2018 Riga School of Design and Art, Riga, Latvia
Solo exhibitions and projects
2024 MAZIRBE-SVVAĻA 300, SAVAGE, Drusti, Latvia
2024 How To Quit Smoking and Run a Marathon, Māksla “XO”, Riga, Latvia
2023 Laundry Day, Roja, Culture Space / Open-air Stage, Latvia
2023 A Solution To a Non-existent Problem, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2022 Public sculpture ensemble, at PAiR Pavilosta, Latvia
2022 400 Mornings, art space Smilga, Riga Latvia
2021 Public sculpture ensemble, TASTE Festival, Bauska, Latvia
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Where Does a Thought Go When It's Forgotten?, New Garden Gallery, Paris, France
2024 Liminal Limbo, TUR Gallery, Latvia
2024 Position Berlin Art Fair with XO Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 In Your Place!, 1905 Year Park Kuldiga, Latvia
2024 MA Graduation Show, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2023 Art e fakti, M/Darbnica, Riga, Latvia
2023 On Water God's Shoulders, Jurmala city museum, Jurmala, Latvia
2022 BA Graduation Show, Let It Sprout!, Art Academy of Latvia,Riga, Latvia
2022 Art Vilnius 2022, Art fair, with Pilot Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 I delve into myself - into you, into her, into you, into us, into everyone… Sabile Art Space, Latvia
2021 International Medallic Art Exhibition 2021, The Homon-kaikan Gallery, Oyamamacho, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
2021 Other Side of Art, Railway Museum, Riga, Latvia
2020 Sculpture, Ceramics, Glass, Liepaja City Museum, Liepaja, Latvia
2020 Art Vilnius 2022, Art fair, with Art Academy of Latvia Experimental Art Space PILOT, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 Grind (like flour) (Samaltie), Art Need Space (Mākslai Vajag telpu), Riga, Latvia
Awards
2024 ACADEMIA/ Helen Scott Lidgett Studio Award 2024/2025 Acme Studios’ Residency & Awards, as part of Acme’s Early Career Awards Programme, Latvia/UK
2022 VKKF Creative Work Grant, Latvia
Residencies/ workshops and other projects
2024/25 Acme Studios’ Residency,Warton House, London, UK
2024 Erasmus mobility program, New Garden Gallery, Paris, France
2024 INTERNATIONAL IRON CASTING 2024, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
2024 Ķirmis '24, Wood Art Symposium, Suntazi, Latvia
2024 SAVAGE artist residency, Drusti, Latvia
2024 Creating and leading sculpture workshops for Latvian Contemporary Art Center, Latvia
2024 YES Sculpture (Yung European Sculptors), Erasmus+ project, Porto University, Porto, Portugal
2023 INTERNATIONAL IRON CASTING 2023, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
2023 Ķirmis '23, Wood Art Symposium, Suntazi, Latvia
2022 EU4ART, Hungarian University of Art, short-term mobility, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Artist residency at Bauska Castle, Bauska, Latvia
2020 16th international Cast Iron Symposium, SERDE, Aizpute, Latvia
Professional appointments
2024 Part of planning and installation team of big-scale exhibition “Izstāde” for Nation Art Museum of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2023 Part of planning and installation team of big-scale exhibition “Aklā Zona” for The Artists' Union of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2023 Producer and manufacturer of commission sculpture series for Balvi and Gulbene cities hospitals.
2022-2023 Manufacturer of decorations for National Theatre of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2019 Producer and manufacturer of commission sculpture series for Liepāja Theatre, Liepāja, Latvia
Recent press, texts and publications
Latvijas Radio 3 (Latvian Radio 3) (LV)
https://echogonewrong.com/exhibition-liminal-limbo-at-the-tur-gallery/print/
Latvijas Architektūra NR. 173(4)
Kultūrdeva (LV)
Māxlas Žurnāls #16 (LV)
IR (LV)
https://ir.lv/2024/03/20/tiraks-prats/
Māxlas Žurnāls #9 (LV)
TRĪSKVADRĀTĀ S3E12 (LV)
Latvijas Radio 1 (Latvian Radio 1) (LV)
Latvijas Radio 1 (Latvian Radio 1) (LV)
LSM.LV (LV)
Latvijas Radio 5 (Latvian Radio 5)(LV)
https://pieci.lv/lv/lr5/raksts/ka-ir-but/ka-ir-but-76-atbrivosanas.a166352/
TV3 (LV)
Collections
VV Foundation, Latvia, 2021
Zuzāns Collection, Latvia, 2023
Maxim Bokser, Latvia, 2024