027.1 Dawn of Memory. 56×76 cm.
Simonida Filipova Kitanovska
Right after graduation from National Art Academy in her native North Macedonia, her work was featured in the National Art Gallery. Since then, her thirty-year career has been marked by numerous solo and group exhibitions in all inhabited continents. Invitations to lecture and demonstrate her unique techniques of painting are frequent followers of her presence on the international art scene as a featured artist (Pan-American Art Academy, Sao Paolo, Brasil; Cota University, Jaipur, India; Fabriano in Acquarello, Fabriano, Italy…). Mrs. Filipova Kitanovska has been awarded on many occasions for her artistic excellence. 1991-1997 she lived in the U.S.A. and exhibited in the Boston area and at Agora Gallery in Soho, New York City. As a painter and visual artist, she expressed herself in a variety of media – oil, acrylic, installation, combined techniques, and video. However, in the past ten years, her work has been almost exclusively dedicated to the explorаtion of watercolor. This fast-drying technique, often full of unpredictability yet precise and unmerciful to mistakes or corrections, matches her character, explosiveness in expression and gesture, drawing using color, and unquenched thirst for instantly realizing ideas on the inviting, blank, white surface.
Awards
2026 – Osten Award – Artist of the Year, Skopje, N. Macedonia
2022 – Gold Medal Award, VI Watercolor Bienal, Caudete, Spain
2022 – Windsor & Newton Award, Watercolor Triennale, Varna, Bulgaria
2019 – Best Watercolor (Nominated), Watercolor Triennale, Varna, Bulgaria
2018 – Best Abstraction, Watercolor Biennale Costa Rica, San Joan, Costa Rica
2017 – Osten Award – Artist of the Year, Skopje, N. Macedonia
2014 – Vangel Kodzoman Award, small format painting, Skopje, N. Macedonia
2013 – Grand Prix, International competition for watercolors, Skopje, N.Macedonia
2012 – Watercolor Prize, International competition, Skopje, N. Macedonia
2008 – Dimitar Pandilov, miniature painting, Macedonian Association of Artists
1997 – Dimitar Pandilov, miniature painting, Macedonian Association of Artists
1989 – Yugoslav Biennial of Watercolor, BAJ, Karlovac, Croatia
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 – Florianopolis, Brazil
2025 – Bologna, Italy
2024 – KIC Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia
2024 – VII Bienal Internacional de Acuarela, Caudete, Spain
2024 – MC Gallery, New York, USA
2022 – Zest Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 – NUCK Gallery, Prilep, Macedonia
2018 – MKC Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia
– Cultural Center, Novi Sad, Serbia
– Gallery “Balkan Bridges”, Kragujevac, Serbia
2016 – Contemplor Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
– Palais Esterhazy, Vienna, Austria
2015 – Gallery “Do Bob” , Ljubljana ,Slovenia
– Gallery “Kult” , Gostivar, Macedonia
2014 – National Gallery, Mala Stanica, Skopje, Macedonia
2013 – Prima Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 – Cultural Informative Center of Macedonia in Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 – Army Hall, Skopje, Macedonia
– Gallery ”Tugad Munga”, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 – Gallery “Oko”, Skopje, Macedonia
– Gallery “Fontikus”, Groznjan, Croatia
– Mali Likovni Salon, Novi Sad, Serbia
2008 – Cultural Information Center, Skopje, Macedonia
2000 – Craon, France
1999 – Uranija, Ohrid, Macedonia
1998 – National Gallery “Daut-Pashin Amam”, Skopje, Macedonia
1994 – Gallery “Trident”, Boston, USA
1993 – Gallery “Agora”, New York – Soho, USA
1992 – Gallery “224“, Boston, USA
1991 – Gallery “Most”, Belgrade, Serbia
1990 – National Gallery “Daut-Pashin Amam”, Skopje, Macedonia
1989 – Gallery “Top”, Karlovac, Croatia
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