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SLAVICA JANEŠLIEVA                                      

Born in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1973.

BFA 1996, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Printmaking Department.

MFA 1998, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje.
PhD 2018, Faculty of Philology "Blaže Koneski", Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (Comparative Studies).
 

2000-2006, freelance visual artist.

2006 -2011– assistant professor; 2011- 2016 - associate professor; 2016 - Full Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.

2008-2010 – Vice Dean at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
 

Solo exhibitions:

2019
- From The City, one night exhibition in a private house, Atinska 2, Skopje
-Triplet, Gallery ALU (with G. Nanevski and I. Sekovski), Sarajevo
2017      
-Impressions, Gallery MC, New York
2016      
-States of Things, Multimedia Center “Mala Stanica”, National Gallery, Skopje
-Art Gallery in Prilep (MK)

2015      
-Slavica Janeslieva (part of the multimedia event “Letter for Cristy”), NI Institute and Museum, Bitola

2013      
-Haiku, Cultural Center Magaza, NI Institute and Museum (with L. Cvetkovski), Bitola

2012      
-Impressions, Multimedia Center “Mala Stanica”, National Gallery, Skopje

2011      
-Shadow, Gallery MC, New York

2009      
-Brrrmmm, Mala Galerija, Skopje
-My Boxes, Art Salon, Veles;
-Art Gallery, Kavadarci; MK
Art Gallery, Kumanovo, MK
-Filantropic Urges 1&2, Skopje City Museum

2007      
-Grafting, Multimedia Center “Mala Stanica”, National Gallery, Skopje

2006      
-Utrecht, The Netherlands, Cultural Center “Babel”

2005      
-Stories, New York City, USA, Gallery MC

2004     
-Narratives and Symbols, Skopje, National Gallery;
-Strumica, Art Gallery;
-Gevgelija, Gallery Swan

2002      
-A Cry, Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art

2001      
-Remembering an Idealist, Skopje, Gallery “Stepen”, Cultural Location “Mesto”
-Story Telling and video performance All My Bicycles, Bratislava, Slovakia, Open Gallery
-Story Telling, CIX Gallery, Skopje

2000      
-Story Telling, Boswil, Switzerland, Artists' House Faundation

1999      
-Reading the Clouds, Skopje, CIX Gallery

1998      
-Graphic Installation Letters, Skopje, Open Graphic Studio

1997      
-Exhibition of prints - with the project Sheep Fold, Skopje, MKC (with A. Stojkovic)

1996      
-Exhibition of prints, Bitola, Art Gallery Bitola (with O. Musovik and A. Popovski)

Selected group exhibitions:
2019
-Surrealism and Fantastic Art (reflections), National Gallery of Macedonia, collection, Skopje
-Summer Salon, Gallery Aqantus, Skopje
-14th International Triennial of Dry Point, City Gallery, Uzice, Serbia
2018
-Tribuna Graphica 2018, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
-6th International Triennial of Small Print, Gallery of Tama Art University, Tokio
-Belt & Road (16+1), Ningbo Arts Museum, Ningbo, China
-All We Have In Common, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
-Personal Identity Matters, Gallery MC, New York
2017      
-Linear Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
-Papermade - 3rd International Biennial "This is My Place", Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy
-13th International Graphic Art Bienial "Dry Point", City Art Gallery, Uzice, Serbia
-Grafiche Divigazioni - Macedonian, Italian and Bugarian Prinmakers, Palazzo Agostinelli, Bassano
del Grappa, Italy
2016     
-18th International Biennial – Petit Format De Papier, Le Musee du Petit Format, Nismes
-Grafiche Divigazioni, Villa Benzi Zecchini, Caerano di San Marco, Itally
-In Search Of A Common Ground 2, Domagk Halle, Munich, Germany
-Mirror - Face To Face - Italian and Macedonian Printmakers, Cartiera di Vas, Belluno, Italy      
-ROC 2016 - International Biennial Print Exhibit, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung,
Taiwan

2015      
-In Search Of A Common Ground, Center of Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan

-The Essence of Existance, Lauba Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

-18^th International Prit Biennial, City Gallery “Boris Georgiev”, Varna, Bulgaria

-In the First Person, Natioal Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje

2014      
-Transfiguring / One Point Of View On Macedonian Contemporary Art, Czech Centre, Prague

-17^th International Biennial – Petit Format De Papier, Le Musee du Petit Format, Nismes & ULB
Culture, Bruxelles, Belgium

-2^nd International Printmaking Triennial – ULUS, Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Belgrade, Serbia
-15^th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, City Art Gallery, Łódź, Poland
-7 x EX YU Grafika, Galerija Likovne umetnosti poklon zbirka Rajka Mamuzica, Novi Sad, Serbia
-Solidarity – The Unfinished Project, PERMANENT EXHIBITION, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Skopje

2013      
-The Artist and the Dictatorship: Transitory authoritarianism, condition after 1991, White Nights,
Chifte Amam, National Gallery, Skopje

-11^th International Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point, City Gallery, Uzice, Serbia

-Reflection: White-Black or not?!, CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy

-Awakening – 46^th Winter Salon, Homeland Museum and Art Gallery “Josip – Bepo Benkovic”,
Herceg Novi, Montenegro

2012      
-Life Action/Game Action 2, Mala Stanica, National Gallery, Skopje

-The Ultimate Golden Collection of Personal Memories 19960-2010, vol.1, “The 90’s: Macedonian
art 1990-2000: Euforia”, White Nights, MKC, Skopje
-16^th International Biennial of Small Works on Paper, Musee du Petit Format, Viroinval, Belgium
-7^th Iternational Print Triennial, NI Institute and Museum, Bitola, Macedonia
-International Saloon of small print (14th edition), Florean Museum, Maramures, Romania
-Interurban, Gallery Kara, Ankara, Turkey
-Aquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

2011      
-Fragments (Macedonian Art Scene 1991-2011), Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

-Joy of Living, Art Pavilion, Podgorica, Montenegro

-10^th International Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point, City Gallery, Uzice, Serbia

-Private/Public, public space interventions, Skopje

-Life Action/Game Action, Mala Stanica, National Gallery, Skopje

-International Saloon of small print (13th edition), Florean Museum, Maramures, Romania

-1st International Print Triennial – ULUS, Art Pavilion “Cvjeta Zuzorik”, Belgrade

-Invisible Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

2010      
-International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari, Florean Museum, Romania

-15^th International Biennial of Small Works on Paper, Musee du Petit Format, Viroinval, Belgium
-5^th International Biennial of Mini Prints, Museum of Tetovo area, Tetovo, Macedonia

2009      
-6^th Iternational Print Triennial, Bitola, Macedonia

-Urban stories from Skopje, art performance, Skopje Summer Festival

-43 Art Meetings, prints and contemporary media, Moderna Gallery, Subotica, Serbia

2008      
-Graphicon, Open Graphic Studio, Skopje City Museum

-Inside-Outside, “Mala Stanica”, National Gallery, Skopje

-Super(Heros), “Mala Stanica”, National Gallery, Skopje

2007      
-Contemporary Arts Festival, Varna, Bulgaria

-Redifining public spaces, “Tocka” and other non-gallery spaces, Skopje

2006      
-Inkladia, Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

-Artists in Conversation, Kampanagel Hamburg, Germany
-13^th International Biennial of Small Works on Paper, Musee du Petit Format, Viroinval, Belgium

-Eastern Neighbours, Cultural Center “Babel”, Utrecht, The Netherlands
-Global Fusion – Close up, Palais Porcia, Viena
-8^th International Printmaking Saloon, Museum Florean, Miramur, Romania
-Contemporary Macedonian Graphic Art, Daut Pasha Amam, National Gallery, Skopje

2005      
-Scents:Locks:Kisses, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
-Global Fusion Close Up, urban art, Vienna; Melbourne
-Contemporary Macedonian Art, Gallery MC, New York City
-Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Tama Art University, Tokyo
-New Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the British Embassy in Macedonia,
Skopje

-Alian Body, Skopje City Museum, Skopje
-Dialogues-Macedonian Art Today, National Gallery, Skopje

2004         
-Cosmopolis 1 - Microcosmos x Macrocosmos, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonika
-Young Macedonian Printmakers, Osijek, Croatia
-Macedonian Artists, Lincoln Center, New York City; Woterworks Visual Arts Center,
Salisbury, North Carolina
-4^th International Print Biennial, National Gallery, Sofia
-Multiplication - The Macedonian Way, Open Graphic Studio, Skopje
-12^th International Biennial of Small Format, Cultural Center, Nismes-Viroinval, Belgium
-Dialogues-Macedonian Art Today, Art Gallery, Podgorica, Montenegro
-Prints from the Balkans – International Print Triennial, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden

-ReAffiliations: Sightings, National Art Gallery, Sofia; National Gallery, Skopje

2003      
-Selection 2002, City Art Gallery, Strumica, Macedonia

-International Mini-Print Biennial, Festival of Graphic Arts, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

-2^nd International Mini-Print Biennial, Arabati Baba Gallery, Tetovo, Macedonia
-The Conceptual Discourse in Macedonia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
-Balkan Video & Digital Arts Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
-We Are The Weather - Second Biennial of Contemporary Visual Arts By Balkan Female Artists,
National Art Gallery, Sofia
-The Masters of Graphic Arts – 7^th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphics, Municipal
Museum of Arts, Györ, Hungary
-4^th International Print Triennial, Museum and Gallery, Bitola, Macedonia
-6^th Mondial Triennial of Small Sized Prints, Association Mouvement Art Contemporain,
Chamalières, France
-Dialogues-Macedonian Art Today, Unesco Gallery, Paris; Ministry of Culture, Rome

2002      
-Body Thinks, Open Graphic Studio, Skopje, Macedonia
-22nd Nadezda Petrovic Memorial, Art Gallery “Nadezda Petrovic”, Cacak, Yugoslavia

-1(3) Dialects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
-Bound/less Borders, Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, public art project with billboards, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, (travelled to Skopje, Sofia, Bucharest, Saraevo, Kassel)

-Who Am I?, Gallery of Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade; City Museum, Skopje
-Links, Graphica Creativa - 10th Triennial, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
-11^th International Biennial of Small Format, Cultural Center, Nismes-Viroinval, Belgium
-International Triennial of Miniature Art, Tama Art University, Tokyo
-Small Graphic Forms, City Art Gallery, Łódź, Poland

2001      
-1^st International Mini Print Biennial, Arabati Baba Gallery, Tetovo, Macedonia

-5^th International Print Biennial – Dry Point, City Gallery, Uzice, Srbia
-Selection 2000, Art Gallery, Strumica, Macedonia
-Works on paper – week of culture, Palais d’Erlanger, Sidi Bou Said, Tunis
-5^th Biennial of Youth Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
-Dry Point, Gallery of Association of Artists, Skopje
-Shining the site, public art, city central area, Skopje

-Small Talks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

-5 Contemporary Macedonian Printmakers, Gallery Cvadrato di Omega, Rome
-Perfect Match, exhibition of public art projects, City Shopping Mall, Skopje

2000      
-6^th International Biennial of Miniature Prints, Moderna Gallery, Gornji Milanovac, Srbia
-Communication. Experience of interaction., Almaty Buisiness Center, Almaty, Kazahstan
-3^rd International Triennial, Museum and Gallery, Bitola, Macedonia
-Graphic Experiment 2, Open Graphic Studio, Skope
-5^th Mondial Triennial of Small Sized Prints, Association Mouvement Art Contemporain,
Chamalières, France
-10^th International Biennial of Small Format, Cultural Center, Nismes-Viroinval, Belgium
-1^st Cheju International Print Art Festival, Gallery of Cheju and Sogwipo Kidang, Cheju, Seoul,
Korea
-Cleaning Material Store, Window Gallery, Istanbul

-Artist(s) in Residence (participation in the project of Luchezar Boyadziev), part 2 "Social
Reality/Existence/Politics", L'autre moitie de l'Europe, Jeu de Paume, Paris

1999      
-Matrix, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste
-International Print Biennial, City Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
-25 Macedonian Artists, International Art Studio, Valjevo, Yugoslavia
-The First Peep-show in the City, CIX Gallery, Skopje
-4^th International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Ino-cho Paper Museum, Kochi-shi, Japan

-12^th German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Stadtsaal, Frechen, Germany
-4^th International Print Biennial – Dry Point, City Gallery, Uzice, Srbia
-International Small Engraving Salon, Florean Museum, Carbunar, Romania
-Small Graphic Forms, City Art Gallery, Łódź, Poland
-2^nd International Ex-libris Exhibition, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia

1998      
-Selection '97, Art Gallery, Strumica, Macedonia

-5^th Biennial of Graphic Art, Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
-9^th International Biennial of Small Format, Cultural Center, Nismes-Viroinval, Belgium

-International Small Print Exhibition, Townhouse Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

-2^nd International Biennial of Small Size Works, Gallery “Zyhdi”, Raciborz, Poland

-International Miniature Print Exhibit, Municipal Hall, Barcelona

-2^nd International Biennial of Graphic Art, National Art Gallery, Sofia

-Young Macedonian Artists, Gallery of “Doma Omladine”, Belgrade

1997      
-Graphic Experiment, Open Graphic Studio, Skopje
-19^th International Exhibition of Prints, Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
-1^st International Ex-libris Exhibition, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
-International Biennial of Small Size Prints, Gallery “Sunce”, Leskovac, Srbia
-International Print Biennial, City Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
-3^rd International Print Biennial – Dry Point, City Gallery, Uzice, Srbia
-2^nd International Triennial, Museum and Gallery, Bitola, Macedonia
-4^th Block-International Triennial, Karkiv, Ukraine

1996      
-4^th International Biennial of Miniature Art, The Museum of Rudnik and Takovo Region, Gornji
Milanovac, Srbia

1995      
-Chifte Amam – installations, Summer Festival, Skopje

Awards:
2016       -Finalist - ROC 2016 - International Biennial Print Exhibit, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan

2015       -“Konstantin Mazev” Award, Small Format 2015, Cultural Info Center, Skopje

-“Dimce Nikolov” Print Award, Annual Exhibition of the Association of Macedonian Artists, Macedonian National Gallery, Skopje

2007       - Purchase Award, “Telma”, 37^th Exhibition of Prints, Skopje

2004       - Purchase Award, 35th Exhibition of prints, Skopje

2003       - Atanas Muchev Award, Selection 2002, Strumica

- DENES Award, Nominated Artists Exhibition, Annual Award by the Civil Society Foundarion in New York, Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Contemporary Art Center in Macedonia, Skopje

2001       - First Prize, 1st International Mini Print Triennial, Tetovo

        - Grand Prix, 5th Biennial of the youth artists, Skopje

2000       - Purchase Award, 3rd International Print Triennial, Bitola

        - Ratko Nestorovski - Kines Award, Revijalna exhibition, Skopje

1998       - Purchase Award, 28th Exhibition of prints, Skopje

1997       - Second prize, SIAB '97, Skopje

               

Works purchesed for collections:

                -Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia

                - National Gallery , Skopje, Macedonia

                - Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Juvaskyla, Finland

                - World Bank, Washington D.C., USA

                - National and University Library  “St. Kliment of Ohrid”, Skopje, Macedonia

Works donated for collections:
                -Collection Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton, Macedonia: Transfiguring

                -Collection of Musee du Petit Format, Viroinval, Belgium

                -Outdoor Collection of the National Gallery, Daut Pasha Amam, Skopje, Macedonia

                -Collection of City Museum, Tetovo, Macedonia

                -Printmaking Collection of “Art Meetings”, Moderna Galerija, Subotica, Serbia

                -Dry Point Collection, City Gallery, Uzice, Serbia

                -Purdue University Galleries Permanent Collection, USA

                -Florean Museum Collection, Romania

                -Tama Art University Museum Collection, Tokio, Japan

                -Contemporary Graphic Fund “Octavian Goga”, Cluj Country Library, Romania

                -Permanent International Graphic Collection of Municipal Museum of Art, Gyor, Hungary

                -AMAC Collection, Chamalieres, France

                -Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia

                -Collection of the Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland

Residencies:

2003       -New York, International House – Columbia University Campus, Contemporary Art Center Skopje and Civil Society Foundation New York Grant-award

2000       -Paris, Jeu de Paume, art project of Luchezar Boyadziev (Pro Helvetia and APEX grants)

                -Boswil, Switzerland, Artists’ House Foundation (Pro Helvetia grant)

Art Symposiums/Art Collonies/Art Conferences:
2016       -Remembering the Past - Building the Future, Art Conference (paper presentation)

2006       -Galicnik, Macedonia, Art Collony

2000       -Samotraki, Greece, Third Balkan Symposium

1998       -Gevgelija, Macedonia, Printmaking Art Collony

1997       -Gevgelija, Macedonia, Printmaking Art Collony

1996       -Prilep, Macedonia, Painting and Sculpture Art Collony

Workshops:

2015       -Skopje, Artists' Book, Fakulty of Fine Arts, UKIM, Skopje

2014       -Skopje, Seeing creatively through the space, Faculty of Fine Arts, UKIM, Skopje

2013       -Skopje, Visual Thinking, Faculty of Fine Arts, UKIM, Skopje

2012       -Skopje, New curricula and methodology in graphic design, Faculty of Fine Arts, UKIM, Skopje

2010       -Skopje, Creative Cities, patronage of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Skopje

2005       -Helsinki, Speak-up!, Helsinki Art Academy

2001       -Skopje, Dry Point, in the studio of prof. Dimitar Malidanov, IKON

1998       -Skopje, MAK-GRAF ’98, Open Graphic Studio, Skopje City Museum

1997       -Skopje, MAK-GRAF ’97, Open Graphic Studio Skopje City Museum