Nina Pancheva [Certified Visual Artist - Varna, Bulgaria]

Nina Pancheva [Certified Visual Artist – Varna, Bulgaria]

Nina Pancheva [Certified Visual Artist – Varna, Bulgaria]

Nina Pancheva is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Varna, Bulgaria.

Nina Pancheva creates paintings and art installations. In her practice, she often juxtaposes abstract elements with figurative ones to explore various subject matters, mainly related to political, social, and ecological problems.

After completing her bachelor’s degree in fine art at the art academy in her home country, Bulgaria (in Plovdiv), she received her MA in Fine Art at the University of Southampton in 2011. In 2015, she completed her PhD at the same university with practice-based research.

Honors and Awards

Among the honors that Nina Pancheva’s paintings have received are:

  • shortlisted for the final stage of Visual Art Open Competition, London, 2023;
  • shortlisted for London Art Biennale 2021;
  • first place for painting at the open theme competition, Teravarna, US;
  • fifth place for painting in the competition ‘All Landscapes’, Contemporary Art Gallery Online;
  • shortlisted for the final exhibition of Lynn Painter-Strainers Prize 2017;
  • shortlisted for the final exhibition of the competition ING Discerning Eye, as well as for Sunny Art Prize 2020;
  • selected for ArtPrize – Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA;
  • shortlisted for the final exhibition of Beep International Painting Prize, Swansea, Wales;
  • featured artist for August 2021 from The Stables in Exile Gallery, London, UK;
  • first-place prize for painting in the competition of Foundation “Anastas Staykov”, Bulgaria; and
  • shortlisted as one of the artists to present Bulgaria in the Henkel and KulturKontakt competition in Vienna, Austria.

Nina’s works have been included in private and public collections in the United Kingdom, USA, Bulgaria, Canada, Austria, and Italy.

See more work, visit ninapancheva.com

Nina Pancheva

Nina Pancheva

 

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