Alena Shychko:

24.01.1976, MINSK, BELARUS.

EDUCATION

• 2001-2004 -PhD study at the Institute of Art Criticism, Ethnography and Folklore of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
• 2001- 2003 - Creative Art Studios of Painting and Sculpture by Ministry of Culture of Belarus.
• 1995-2001 -Belarusian State Academy of Art (Graphik Fine Art Department). Honors Degree.
• 1991-1995- Art college. Belarus.

From 2003 -Member of the Union of Artists of Belarus.

From 2006- Member of the Union of Designers of Belarus.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2000 - Personal Exhibition "Graphic". Nordwalde. Germany.
• 2006 - Personal Exhibition "Aquarelle", Museum of Modern Art in Minsk , Belarus.

GRANTS, RESIDENTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS

• 2006- Print Selected Entries in the Print Category of 12th International biennial print and drawing exhibition, R.O.C. International Taiwan Museum of Fine Art. Taiwan.
• 2006- scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of republic of Belarus. 2004- Print Selected Entries in the Print Category of 11th International biennial print and drawing exhibition, R.O.C. International Taiwan Museum of Fine Art. Taiwan.
• 2001-2003 - Creative Art Studios of Painting and Sculpture by Ministry of Culture of Belarus, scholarship.
• 2002- 2nd place in graphic nomination in republic exhibition "Time does not stay and does not wait". Palace of art. Minsk. Belarus.
• 2000- Prize in international competition of mini-print "M.K.Churlionis-125". Vilnius. Lithuania
• 2000- 3-rd Place in graphic nomination. Republic exhibition "New Names" Palace of Art. Minsk. Belarus.
• 1999- Prize at the 2-nd International Ex-libris exhibition "50 years of the Council of Europe" Rieka Croatia.
• 1998- Prize at the republic exhibition "Time, Space, Person." Palace of Art. Minsk. Belarus.

1995-2007 participation at international exhibitions of printmaking graphic art in Belgium, Spain, Taiwan, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Japan; art-salons in Russia (Moscow), France (Paris); Republic exhibitions in Belarus (Minsk).

Museum of Modern Art in Minsk , Belarus ; National Museum of Art of Republic of Belarus; museum "Tama Art University" Japan; International Ex-libris Center of Sint-Niklaas; in private collections in Germany ,France, Poland, Lithuania, Japan, Croatia, Canada, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Argentina, USA.

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