SIMONIDA FILIPOVA KITANOVSKA.  Artista invitada a la V Bienal Internacional. Macedonia.

Artista profesional toda su vida, después de graduarse de la Academia Nacional de Arte en su República nativa de Macedonia (Yugoslavia), su trabajo fue presentado en la Galería Nacional de Arte como una de los artistas más importantes del país. Su carrera de treinta años estuvo marcada por numerosas exposiciones individuales y colectivas en Europa, Asia y Estados Unidos. Filipova Kitanovska fue galardonada en muchas ocasiones por su excelencia artística.

Desde 1991-1997 vivió en los Estados Unidos, donde tuvo la oportunidad de exponer   en Boston y Agora Gallery en Soho, Nueva York. Trabaja como artista visual en los medios: óleo, acrílico, instalación, técnicas combinadas y video. Sin embargo, los últimos siete años están dedicados exclusivamente a la exploración de la acuarela. Sus primeras pinturas en acuarela al principio de su carrera ganaron un premio especial en el prestigioso concurso nacional.

 Simonida Filipova Kitanovska has been professional artist all her life. Right after graduation from National Art Academy in her native Republic of Macedonia (than Yugoslavia) her work was featured at the National Art Gallery as she was recognized as one of the leading artist in the country. Her thirty years career was marked by numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and U.S.A. Mrs. Filipova Kitanovska was awarded in many occasions for her artistic excellence.

In 1991-1997 she lived in U.S.A. and exhibited at Boston and Agora Gallery in Soho, New York City. As a painter and visual artist she expressed herself in different media – oil, acrylic, installation, combined techniques and video. However, last seven years her work is almost exclusively dedicated to exploration of watercolor. Her very first watercolor paintings early on in her career earned her a special prize at prestigious national competition. Years later she found that this technique that is fast drying, often full with  unpredictability yet precise and unmerciful to mistakes or corrections, match her own character, explosive expression and gesture, drawing using color and unquenched thirst for realizing ideas  to the inviting white surface instantly.

Selected solo exhibitions:

 2018 –  MKC Galler, Skopje, Macedonia

         – Cultural Center, Novi Sad, Serbia

         – Gallery “Balkan Bridges”, Kragujevac, Serbia

         – House of Culture, Demir Hisar, Macedonia

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

Simonida Filipova-Kitanovska’s works have been exhibited at more than one hundred group exhibitions in Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, France, USA, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Australia, Romania, Albania, Armenia, Greece, India, Italy and Thailand.

Awards and nominations:

2019 – Best Watercolor (Nominated), Watercolor Biennale, Varna, Bulgaria

2018 – Best Abstraction, Watercolor Biennale Costa Rica, San Joan, Costa Rica

2017 –  Osten Award –Artist of the Year

2014 – Vangel Kodzoman Award, small format painting, Skopje

2013 – Grand Prix, International competition for watercolors, Skopje

2012 – Prize for watercolors; International competition, Skopje

2008 – Dimitar Pandilov, miniature painting, Association of Artists of Macedonia

1997 – Dimitar Pandilov, miniature painting, Association of Artists of Macedonia

1989 – Yugoslav Biennial of Watercolor, BAJ, Karlovac

Special Projects (selection):

2019 – Acquarello in Fabriano, ten masters group show, Fabriano, Italy

2014 – Rotterdam Art Fair, Holland

2009 –  Action painting performance with National Symphony Orchestra, Skopje, Macedonia

2002 – Elmhurst Park Art Project, Boston, USA