Krasimira Mihailova

Santorini, the Red Wall - Painting Blue White Green Yellow Red Brown

2014

Maestro Krasimira Mihaylova was born in 1942 in the town of Varna, Bulgaria She graduated from the Bulgarian National Academy of Art, in the Graphics Division, under Prof. Evtim Tomov and Prof. Veselin Staykov. Initially, her professional career was connected with fashion. She modelled for the Lada Fashion Magazine and the New Goods and Fashion Centre, and subsequently engaged in clothes designing. In the 1970s, she turned her attention to printing and illustrations of books and manuals. She worked for the Narodna Prosveta Publishers and the Problems Group in Education with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Public Education under Academician Blagovest Sendov, famous for its experimental education of children. In the 1987 – 2002 period, she was an art editor with the St Kliment Ohridski University Publishers. She also contributed to various publishing houses and the periodical press. She has authored the illustrations and artistic layout of many manuals, books and printed matter. Since 1990s she works actively in the domain of painting. She had solo exhibitions and participated in general, national and group exhibitions around the world. A particularly interesting fact is her kinship with the Dospevski clan, who founded the Samokov Painting School, and its foremost representatives Zahari Zograph and Dospevski. She has been member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1982. Solo exhibitions • "Autobiographical" painting exhibition, SEZONI gallery, Sofia, 2001 • Painting exhibition "Curly Refuges", SBH Gallery, Sofia, 2002 • Painting exhibition "By the Blue Water", National Assembly, Sofia, 2003 • Painting exhibition "Bagri near Rhodope", LIK gallery, 2005 • Painting exhibition "Emotional presences", SBH gallery, Sofia, 2012 • "Landscape" painting exhibition, ART SPICE gallery, Sofia, 2013 • Painting exhibition, TANDRA gallery, 2014 • Painting exhibition "Sense of community", Bulgaria gallery, with the participation of Valentin Savchev, sculpture, Sofia, 2015 • Jubilee painting exhibition "Attraction", SBH gallery, 2018 National, general and group exhibitions • National exhibition of the illustration and art of the Bulgarian book, Sofia, 1970, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1996, 2006 • General art exhibition, Plovdiv, 1983 • Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1987 • 30th anniversary "Golden Feather", Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988 • First International Biennale of Illustration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1990 • Traditional annual exhibition of the artists in the Izgrev area, Sofia, (from 1999 to 2018) • Painting exhibition "Spiritual messages", VITOSHA gallery, Sofia, 2002, 2003 • Exhibition-competition "Cite International des Arts-Paris", SBH gallery, Sofia, 2002, 2003 • Annual exhibition of ASTRI Gallery, Sofia (from 2002 to 2014) • Painting exhibition "The Four Seasons", VITOSHA gallery, Sofia, 2003 • Painting exhibition "Tradition and Continuity" of the Rotary Club, Gallery Hall Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005 • Painting exhibition "Personal Mythologies", SBH gallery, , Sofia, 2005 • Annual exhibition of the "Graphics and Illustration" section, SBH gallery, 6, Sofia, 2006, 2008 • Painting exhibition "Close distance", SBH gallery, Sofia, 2008 • Painting exhibition, MAXIM gallery, Sofia, 2008, 2010 • Third Biennial of Small Forms, Pleven, 2008 • Exhibition-competition "National Awards Allianz Bulgaria", SBH gallery, Sofia, 2008, 2010, 2016 • Salon 2011, SBH gallery 2011 • ART SPICE gallery exhibition, "The Spirit of Spring", Information Center, Sofia, 2014 • LANDSCAPE exhibition in the Painting section, SBH, 2017