Plamen Yordanov

Plamen Yordanov


About

Born in Bulgaria, since 1998 lives and works in U.S.A. Graduated the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia with MFA in painting. Specialized in Como, Italy, Antonio Ratti Foundation, the Advanced Course in Visual Arts with Prof. Joseph Kosuth and in Salzburg, Austria, Public Arts with Prof. Agnes Denes. Founder of Chicago Art Center in 2007 and Museum of Modern Art Chicago in 2008 as a conceptual opposition to the institutionalization of art. Participated in more than 100 exhibitions in Europe and America, including Queens Museum of Art; Chicago Cultural Center; Daley Center - Chicago; National Palace of Culture Sofia, BG; Ratti Foundation Como, Italy; Gagliardi Gallery London; Stedelijk Museum Hof Van Busleyden Meechelen, Belgium.

I share the idea of an art that creates reality instead of offering its conventional model. I want to provoke the birth of view that go beyond the boundary of reality itself. These viewpoints stress an order that exists "a priory" in nature and can be developed again and again. This aspect makes the picture exist as a signal that gives the onlooker a chance to go deep into his/her life experience and mind. This is a universal signal to which the individual responds in a unique manner and creates his/her own reality. Read More
Location
Flushing, Queens, NY, United States
Website
http://www.plamenarts.com
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=plamen+yordanov&f=hp
Work
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS:
2010 • “In Present Sense”, Museum of Modern Art Chicago – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2009 • “American Golden Horse”, Chicago Art Center Project Room – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “Compensatory Self-Presence” project/intervention, The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2008 • “Compensatory Self-Presence” project/intervention, MoMA – New York, NY, U.S.A.
• “Portrait of a Collector“, Chicago Art Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “Arabesques – Ten Years Latter”, Chicago Art Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “Genesis”, Orland Park Outdoor Project – Orland Park, IL, U.S.A.
• “3” (with Anatoliy Snigirev and Richard Shipps), Chicago Art Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2000 • “3-D Reality Project”, University of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
1999 • “Recent Paintings and Paper Works”, Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
1998 • “Arabesques”, Artec Nº1 Gallery – Mannheim, Germany
• “Voyage”, installation on the Heidelberg University Square and in Nedev Gallery – Heidelberg, Germany
1997 • “Voyage”, installation on the Mozart Bridge – Salzburg, Austria
1994 • “Installations and Assemblages”, National Palace of Culture – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “Fragments”, Sezoni Art Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
1993 • “Fluorescent Paintings”, Sapio Art Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “BIG” Paintings”, Shipka 6 Gallery (exhibition halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia, Bulgaria.
1992 • “Recent Paintings”, Red Mill Gallery – Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, U.S.A.
• Norman Art Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
1991 • “Noah's Ark”, Wolfgang Riegelsberger Gallery – Mannheim, Germany
• Art 7 Gallery and the International Foundation “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” – Sofia, Bulgaria
1990 • “Graffiti”, Shipka 6 Gallery (exhibition halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia, Bulgaria
• Rakovsky 108 Gallery (exhibition halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia, Bulgaria

GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS:
2011 • 6th Annual KIWA Woodblock Print Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum – Kyoto, Japan
• “An Exchange with Sol LeWitt” – Cabinet, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• “Postcards from the Edge”, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2010 • “ABSENCE”, Queens Museum of Art – New York, NY, U.S.A.
• CUNY, The City University of New York – New York, NY, U.S.A.
• “Art Diaries: Conquer”, 4art, Inc. – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China – Beijing, China
• “Beyond Borders 4”, Richard J. Daley Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “Re: Contemplating the Void”, Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY, U.S.A.
• “Dreams of Healing”, Swedish Covenant Hospital & Richard H. Driehaus Foundation – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• G.R. N’Namdi Gallery – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• SICA, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts – Long Branch, NJ, U.S.A.
• “Bound & Gathered”, Edge Zones Art Center – Miami, FL, U.S.A.
• “Michael Landy: Art Bin” – South London Gallery – London, United Kingdom
• “Artist Made Books”, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University – Evanston, IL, U.S.A.
2009 • “Print Now”, Bearspace, shortlisted for London Art Fair – London, United Kingdom
• South Ocean Art Gallery – Freeport, NY, U.S.A.
• “Design it” Shelter Competition, Guggenheim and Google Flickr Group, Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
• “Under the Viaduct”, Architrouve Gallery – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• Suffolk County Community College – Selden, NY, U.S.A.
• “A Book About Death” collaborative project, Queens Museum of Art – Queens, NY, U.S.A.
• “ArtPrize”, Blue Bridge/City of Grand Rapids – Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
• “Nude”, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Arts Horizons, LeRoy Neiman Art Center – New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Rio II Gallery – New York, NY, U.S.A.
• “Prancing Carousels” public art exhibition – Lake Geneva, WI, U.S.A.
• “Immigration Journeys Jukebox Project “, Queens Museum of Art – Queens, NY, U.S.A.
• “Beyond Borders 3”, Richard J. Daley Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2008 • Chicago Art Center - Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “Beyond Borders 2”, Richard J. Daley Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2007 • “Beyond Borders 1”, Richard J. Daley Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “Peace Tower”, project by Mark di Suvero – Chicago Cultural Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “The Way of the Wind”, the Curb Art Space – New York, NY, U.S.A.
2004 • “Artist’s Toys”, Kraft/Lieberman Gallery – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “LPCAI”, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Department of Cultural Affairs – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2003 • Navy Pier Walk 2003, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• Maquettes Show, Gallery 37 – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2002 • “Being“, LIPA Art Gallery – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “LPCAI”, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Department of Cultural Affairs – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2001 • “Suite Home Chicago“, Public Art Project of the Department of Cultural Affairs – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2000 • “Many Colored Artworks“, Queens Museum of Art – New York, NY, U.S.A.
1999 • “30 Times 15"x15"“, Fassbender Gallery – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• “Border Crossings”, the 9th International Sculptors’ Symposium – Arnbruck, Germany
1998 • “Border Crossings”, the 8th International Sculptors’ Symposium – Braunau, Austria
• 5th International Sculpture Symposium – Brienz, Switzerland
• “Bulgarian Graphic Art Today”, Rathausgalerie – Brühl, Germany
• “Bulgarian Artbook”, BRINZ 39 Foundation – Zürich, Switzerland
1997 • “Bulgarian Artbook”, Ata Gallery for Contemporary Art – Sofia, Bulgaria
• The 3rd International Sculpture Symposium – Sur En/Sent, Switzerland
• “Voyage”, Installation in the Old Salt Mine – Hallein, Austria
• Stedelijk Museum Hof Van Busleyden – Meechelen, Belgien
1996 • “Plastic Image of the 90s”, the National Palace of Culture – Sofia, Bulgaria
• The 4th International Sculpture Symposium – Hojer, Denmark
• Cultural Centre A. Spinoy – Mechelen, Belgium
• “Paper Road”, Post Denmark’s Headquarters – Copenhagen, Denmark
• Section “13” Annual Exhibition, Shipka 6 Gallery (exhibition halls of Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia, BG
1995 • 3rd International Sculpture Symposium – Hojer, Denmark
• “Mail Art on Mail Art”, Duncan of Jordanstone College – Dundee, Scotland
• “Located Work” (“GOD['S] BOX[E]S” - project by Plamen Yordanov, realized by Simone Berti), the Ex-church
of Saint Francis (XV century), Antonio Ratti Foundation – Como, Italy
• International Festival of Painting – Cagne-sur-Mer, France
• “T. E. S. ’95”, the 4th European Sculpture Triennial – Paris, France
• “VideoHarT”, Soros Center for the Arts Annual Exhibition, Archaeological Museum – Sofia, Bulgaria
• The 18th International Independent Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa – Kanagawa, Japan
1994 • S.O.F.A. Art Event – Nyborg, Denmark
• “Selected from the Bulgarian Contemporary Art (60s – 90s years of 20th Century)”, Norman Art Gallery
and the Gallery for Foreign Art of the International Foundation “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “The Autumn Salon”, Shipka 6 Gallery (exhibition halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia, Bulgaria
• Gregorio Millas Gallery – Zaragoza, Spain
• Annual Exhibition of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “13”, Shipka 6 Gallery (exhibition halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “Olympic Ideals in Bulgarian Art”, Shipka 6 Gallery (exhibition halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia
• The 3rd International Print Biennial – Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1993 • MegaChem – Hamburg, Germany
• Annual Exhibition of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “The Autumn Salon”, Shipka 6 Gallery (exhibition halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists) – Sofia, Bulgaria
1992 • “Bulgarian Art”, Gagliardi Gallery – London, England
• “Club of the Young Artists – Review”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• Montserrat Gallery – New York City, U.S.A.
• Limner Gallery – New York City, U.S.A.
• “New Names”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “The Autumn Salon”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
1991 • Budapest Art EXPO '91 – Budapest, Hungary
• “Illusion”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “Club of the Young Artists – Review”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “The Autumn Salon”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
1990 • Wittgenstein Center – Wien, Austria
• International Miniature Art Exhibition – Toronto, Canada
• International Biennial Exhibition of Portrait Drawing and Graphics – Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• “Mail Art” – Bremen, Germany
• “End of the Quotation”, Sofia University – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “Club of the Young Artists – Review”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
• “The Autumn Salon”, Shipka 6 Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
1989 • The 3rd International Competition for Drawing – Ell Ferrol, Spain
• The 4th International Competition for Young Painters – Sofia, Bulgaria
1985 • “Botev’s Land” – Municipal Art Gallery – Vratza, Bulgaria
• “Painting, Small Size” – Municipal Art Gallery – Sliven, Bulgaria
1983 • “Man and Labor” – Municipal Art Gallery – Garovo, Bulgaria

AWARDS/GRANTS/COMMISSIONS:
2010 • Green Office Challenge Awards, City of Chicago – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2003 • Live Performance Series – the Museum of Science and Industry – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
1998 • Diploma – 2nd place of public from the 5th International Woodcarving Symposium – Brienz, Switzerland
• Diploma – 2nd place of jury from the 5th International Woodcarving Symposium – Brienz, Switzerland
• Grant of KulturKontakt – Wien, Austria
• Grant of Summer Academy of Fine Arts – Salzburg, Austria
1995 • Grant of Soros Center for the Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria
1992 • Full Fellowship for Residency of the Vermont Studio Center – Johnson, VT, U.S.A.
• Scholarship of the Art Student League of New York – New York, NY, U.S.A.
1991 • Grant of the International Foundation “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” – Sofia, Bulgaria
1990 • Honorable Mention from the International Art Competition Toronto ’90, Tannas Gallery – Toronto, Canada
1989 • Honor Diploma from the 4th International Competition for Young Painters – Sofia, Bulgaria
• Honorable Mention from the 3rd International Competition for Drawing – Ell Ferrol, Spain

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
• National Art Museum of China – Beijing, China
• G.R. N’Namdi Gallery – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• Microsoft Corporation – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• Queens Museum of Art – New York, NY, U.S.A.
• San Fernando Museum – Madrid, Spain
• National Palace of Culture – Sofia, Bulgaria
• Gallery of the Portrait – Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Brienz International Sculpture Symposium’s Foundation – Brienz, Switzerland
• Passion Greatest Mail Collection – Mechelen, Belgium
• Danish Post Museum – Copenhagen, Denmark
• National Academy of Art – Sofia, Bulgaria



BIBLIOGRAPHY
CATALOGUE. “Art Diaries: Conquer”, 4art, Inc. – Chicago, IL, U.S.A 2011 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “An Exchange with Sol LeWitt” – Cabinet Magazine, New York, NY, U.S.A. 2011 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. 6th KIWA Exhibition - Kyoto International Woodprint Association – Kyoto, Japan. 2011 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China – Beijing, China, 2010 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “Dreams of Healing”, Swedish Covenant Hospital – Chicago, IL, U.S.A. 2010 (reproduction)
WZZM13.com /abc news, “ArtPrize opening in Grand Rapids”, Amy Fox – Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A. 09.23.2009
Who’s Who in American Art, Edition 2010 – New Providence, NJ, U.S.A. 2009 – 2010
CATALOGUE. “Nude”, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A. 2009 (reproductions)
CATALOGUE. Studio Visit, Volume 3 – The Open Studios Press, U.S.A. 2008 (reproduction)
Who’s Who in American Art, Edition 2009 – New Providence, NJ, U.S.A. 2008 – 2009
Art Diary International – The World Art Directory – Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milan, Italy. 2002 – 2003
2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century – International Biographical Centre, Cambridge,
England. 2000
Heidelberg Actuell Newspaper, #8, “Voyage. Module – Installation” – Heidelberg, Germany. 1998 (reproduction)
Refiner - Neckar Newspaper, #178, “Bulgarian Art in Heidelberg” – Heidelberg, Germany. 1998 (reproduction)
Mannheim Morgen Newspaper, “Beechen und Figure” – Mannheim, Germany. 07.05.1998 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “The 5th International Woodcarving Symposium” – Brienz, Switzerland. 1998
CATALOGUE. “Voyage – Plamen Yordanov“. Artec N1 Gallery – Mannheim, Germany. 1998 (reproductions)
CATALOGUE. “VideoHarT”. Soros Center for the Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1997 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “Bulgarian Artbook” – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1997 (reproductions)
Art in Bulgaria Magazine, #32, “The Plastic Image of the 90s” – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1997 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “Located Work”, The Antonio Ratti Foundation – Como, Italy. 1997 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “The 4th International Sculpture Symposium” – Hojer, Denmark. 1996 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “The International Festival of Painting” – Cagne-sur-Mere, France. 1995 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “T. E. S. ’95, the 4th European Sculpture Triennial” – Paris, France. 1995 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “The 18th International Independante Exhibition of Prints” – Kanagawa, Japan. 1995 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “International Print Biennial Belgrade ‘94” – Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 1994 (reproduction)
Who’s Who in International Art. Edition 1994-95 – Lausanne, Switzerland. 1994
CATALOGUE. “S.O.F. A. Art Event Nyborg” – Nyborg, Denmark. 1994 (reproduction)
Art in Bulgaria Magazine, #15, “Sezoni Gallery” – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1994
O.K. Newspaper, “Bulgarian Artists in S.O.F.A. Art Event Nyborg” – Sofia, Bulgaria. 10.10.1994
Standart Newspaper – Sofia, Bulgaria. 26.04.1994 (reproduction)
Vek 21 Newspaper, “My” Exhibition”, Rumiana Yontcheva – Sofia, Bulgaria. 28.04.1994 (reproduction)
Art in Bulgaria Magazine, #11 and #12 – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1994 (reproduction)
Trud Newspaper – Sofia, Bulgaria. 20.01.1994 (reproduction)
Express Newspaper, “Young Artist Is Looking For luck”, Aleks Stoyanov – Sofia, Bulgaria. 20.01.1994 (reproduction)
Express Newspaper – Sofia, Bulgaria. 25.01.1994 (reproduction)
Duma Newspaper, #30, “Balance of the Eclectic Time”, Svilen Stefanov – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1994 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “Plamen Yordanov – Paintings 1991 – 93”, Riegelsberger Gallery – Mannheim, Germany. 1993
Art in Bulgaria Magazine #4, “Gallery Sapio Presents New Names”, Maria Vasileva – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1993 (reproduction)
Express Newspaper, “Youth is Going Abroad”, Ognemir Streltsov – Sofia, Bulgaria. 21.12.1993 (reproduction)
Kultura Newspaper, Maria Vasileva – Sofia, Bulgaria. 29.01.1993 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “Bulgarian Art”, Gagliardi Gallery – London, England. 1992 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “Plamen Yordanov – Installations and Assemblages”, Montserrat Gallery – New York, U.S.A. 1992
“Drawing: Some Methodical and Creative Processes in the National Academy of Fine Arts”, Aleksander Stanev – Sofia, Bulgaria. 1992 (reproductions)
Mannheimer Morgen Newspaper, “Kosmische Tiefe”, Mike Seifert – Mannheim, Germany. 26.03.1991
CATALOGUE. “Budapest Art EXPO ’91” – Budapest, Hungary. 1991 (reproduction)
CATALOGUE. “International Biennial of Portrait Drawings and Graphics” – Tuzla, Bosna and Herzegovina. 1990 (reproduction)
Otetchestven Front Newspaper, “Without Limits”, Orieta Antova – Sofia, Bulgaria. 17.04.1990
CATALOGUE. “International Competition for Drawing” – Ell Ferrol, Spain. 1989 (reproduction)
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Education
EDUCATION:
1997 • International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, the Public Art program with Prof. Agnes Denes – Salzburg, Austria
1995 • Antonio Ratti Foundation, the Advanced Course in Visual Arts with Prof. Joseph Kosuth – Como, Italy
1992 • Vermont Studio Center, the program with Prof. Robert Henry and Prof. Roger Winter – Johnson, VT, U.S.A.
1985-90 • National Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting with Prof. Svetlin Rousev – Sofia, Bulgaria, MFA
1982-85 •“Sts. Cyril and Methodius” University, Department of Fine Arts with Prof. Ivan Bochev – V. Turnovo, BG
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Exercycle from the Indiginous Memories series
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Events

Future Shows: 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China Beijing, China - Sept 19, 2010

Exhibitions

• Dec. 13 - Dec. 27, 2011 - “frag-men-tal”, Richard J. Daley Center – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• Jan.19 – Mrch 02, 2012 - “Indigenous Memories”, Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University – DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.


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