ABOUT THE ARTIST

 
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Ivan Valtchev

voditel@msn.com
646-676-8655

www.IvanValtchev.info

MUSEUM & PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (Selected)

  • Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris, France

  • Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody, Wyoming

  • Butler Institut of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

  • Castelli, Leo, New York, NY

  • Centre Genevois de la Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Gabriella Van Zeuylen, Collection, Paris, France

  • Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden

  • Hammer Galleries, New York, NY

  • Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

  • Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts

  • Lessing Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

  • Minolta Corporation US, Ramsey NJ

  • Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ

  • Museum of the City of Geneva, Switzerland

  • Nathan Cummings Collection of Art, New York, NY

  • National Gallery of Art, Department of Modern Prints and Drawings, Washington, D.C.

  • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

  • New York Public Library, New York, NY

  • New York Public Library, Dance Collection, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Prints and Drawings, New York, NY

  • Robert Rauschenberg Collection, Captiva, Florida

  • Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Schwarz-von Spreckelsen Collection, Basel, Switzerland

  • Stuart Pivar Collection, New York, NY

  • The University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

  • Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey

EDUCATION

  • Fordham University, New York, NY P.D.

  • Musee du Louvre, Paris, France, internship

  • University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, BA

  • Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden, M.F.A.

  • Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

  • University of Copernicus, Torun, Poland

AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS

  • 2008 - 2010 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

  • 2005 Annual Dean's Award, for distinguished adjunct professor, New York University, New York, NY

  • 1985 Artists's Space, New York

  • 1976 Gold Medal, Societe Europeene d'Excellence, Paris, France

  • 1975 Juror's Award, New Hampshire Graphics International

  • 1973 - 1974 Art Grant, University of Maryland, College Park MD

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Selected)

  • 2012, January 1 Washington Post, Metro section, article

  • 2010 Lincoln Square News, article, December

  • 2011 Vezni, (Scales) magazine, Sofia, Bulgaria

  • 2010 Lincoln Square News, art profile, December 9, 2010

  • 2008 Vezni magazine, Sofia, Bulgaria

  • 2004 Washington Post May 24 2004

  • 1987-99 Art Stars (photography page) all issues Manhattan Arts, NY

  • 1999 The New Haven Registrar February, 1999

  • 1995 Sep/Oct Horse World Magazine Volume 52 No 9

  • 1994 The Exquisite Cadaver, Drawing Center Catalog, N.Y., N.Y.

  • 1987-1993 Art Stars (photography page), all issues, Manhattan Arts, NY

  • 1990 May 16 Art Speak NY NY

  • 1990 Manhattan Arts, May, 1990 NY NY

  • 1990 Manhattan Arts January February NY NY

  • 1988 Alexandria Pulse, Alexandria, VA, Article July 15

  • 1988 Washington Art Reporter Washington DC Article Sept.-Oct.

  • 1986 Television Profile WUSA Ch. 9 Washington, DC.Nov.

  • 1986 Washington Post Metro Washington D.C. Article,July 18

  • 1985 Columbia University Record, NY NY Review, October 25

  • 1984 Our Sunday Visitor Huntington IN Front Page, May 22

  • 1984 Buffalo News Article November 16 Buffalo, New York

  • 1977 Basel Doppelstab, Article April Basel Switzerland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

  • 2018 Consulate of Bulgaria, New York, NY

  • 2016 Consulate of Bulgaria, New York, NY

  • 2010 Le Rendez-Vous Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2009 Gallery Le Rendez-vous, New York, NY

  • 2006 Gallery Bel Age, Westhampton Beach NY

  • 2004 Gallery Artamontzev, Sofia, Bulgaria

  • 2000 RoseRoyce Gallery, Clairmont, New Jersey

  • 1999 Gallery Svarta Soffan, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 1998 Horse Show, Saratoga, NY

  • 1996 Gallery Svarta Soffan. Stockholm, Sweden

  • 1993 Synchronicity Space, Soho, New York

  • 1990 University Club, Washington, D.C.

  • 1990 Handcraft Marble and Granite Gallery, Inc., NY, NY

  • 1989 The Lafayette Street Living Museum, New York, NY

  • 1989 Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

  • 1988 Fota Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia

  • 1987 City Corp., New York, NY

  • 1986 City Corp., New York, NY

  • 1985 Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, NY

  • 1984 Benjamin's Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

  • 1983 Lincoln Savings Bank. New York, NY

  • 1981 Lincoln Savings Bank, New York, NY

  • 1978 Gallery im Kirchgasse, Zurich, Switzerland

  • 1977 Daniel Blaise Thorrens Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland

  • 1975 Gallery Rubicon, Los Altos, California

  • Gallery Die Unge Generation, Vienna, Austria

  • Gallery Window, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 1973-1974 Gallery Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, Holland

  • Gallery Cora, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Gallery Nouvelle Gravure, Paris, France

  • 1973 Gallery Carl Van der Voort, Ibiza. Spain

  • 1972 Jane Haslem Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

  • Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.

  • 1971 New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, New York

  • 1969 Gallery Draken, Stockholm, Sweden


GROUP SHOWS AND FORUMS (Selected)

  • 2016 Panel Cross-culture Hybrid Arts NYU October 25

  • 2016 Panel 'Future of the Arts' Colombia University February 8

  • 2013 Animamus Art Salon, New York, NY

  • 2012 Animamus Art Salon, New York, NY

  • 2008-2010 Storyopolis Gallery Sherman Oaks, CA

  • 2007-2009 Gallery Storyopolis Sherman Oaks CA

  • 2007 Grant Gallery SOHO, NY NY

  • 2005 Ederlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY

  • 2004 Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ

  • 2002-2003 Cooper Union New York, NY

  • 2000 Galeria 1000 Madison Ave, NY, NY

  • 1999 - 2004 Richard Greene Gallery, Guilford, Connecticut

  • 1999 Brighton Horizon Gallery, Sydney, Australia

  • 1997 The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

  • 1996, 1997, 1998 Elaine Benson, Southampton, NY

  • 1995 University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

  • 1997 Drawing Center, New York, NY

  • 1993 Swiss Institute, New York, NY

  • 1990 Monserat Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1988 Tradition 3000, New York, NY

  • 1987 - 1988 Baraka Art Co., Washington, D.C.

  • 1986 Mussavi Art Center, New York, NY

  • 1985 Henry Roussard Gallerv, New York, NY

  • 1984 James Hunt Baker Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1983 HMK Fine Arts, New York, NY

  • 1982 Terrain Gallery. New York, NY

  • 1981 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1977 Daniel Blaise Thorrens Fine Art, Basel, Switzerland

  • 1976 Gallery Hans Trojansky, Dusseldorf, Germany

  • 1973 23rd National Print Show, Library of Congress, Wash., DC

  • 1971-1975 University of Maryland Art Dept, Gallery, MD

  • 1972-1977 Basel Art Fair, Switzerland

  • 1972-1975 Gallery Cora. Geneva, Switzerland

  • 1972-1975 Gallery Schindler, Bern, Swilzeriand

  • 1972 National Print Show, Oklahoma City Museum

PARTICIPATIONS

  • 2016 Art Panel at Columbia University, COCA ART, New York

  • 1983 Channel 13 Collection, Auctioning of Art, New York

  • 1982 The Bienal Graphics International, Lubliana, Yugoslavia

  • 1975 Seventh Annual Printmaking West, Utah State University

  • 1975 Fourth Int’l. Art Exhibition, International Play Group, NYC

  • 1974-75 United States International, The Graphics Society, NYC

  • 1974 Salon International de l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

  • 1974 Second New Hampshire Graphics International, NH

  • 1972-75 Dusseldorf Art Fair, Germany

  • 1970 Graphics International Bienal Entreveaux, Cannes, France

  • 1969 Graphics International Bienal, Ibiza, Spain

PROJECTS

  • 1977 - 1980 Life-size bronzes cast in Geneva, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany - private collections

  • 1978 - 1979 Stone Carving in Carrara, Pietra Santa, Italy