Gligor Stefanov

Gligor Stefanov (born 1956 Macedonia) is a sculptor and environmental installations artist, who lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. ^[1]

Life

He graduated at the Belgrade Art Academy with an M.A.^[2]

He creates site-specific works, paintings and drawings, religious and eco-art with organic materials. Gligor Stefanov has participated in eighteen one-man exhibitions and in more than 100 group exhibitions in many countries, including the Venice Biennale, in Italy. He has been awarded a number of prizes, one of which is the award of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje.^[3]

One-man exhibitions

• 1972 - Kavadarci, Library Exhibition Hall(drawings&paintings)
• 1974 - Kavadarci, Culture Center (paintings)
• 1981 - Kavadarci, Town Square - Installations
• 1982 - Pazin - Installation with Grass in the Park
• - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art - Installation with Cotton
• - Kavadarci, Luna Gallery (drawings)
• - Pazin, Culture Center, Environment's Rhythms (drawings and installation)
• 1983 - Skopje, 25 May Gallery - Linear Intervention
• 1984 - Zagreb, SC Gallery - Linear Intervention
• - Belgrade, SKC Gallery - Linear Intervention
• 1985 - Belgrade, FLU Gallery (objects)
• 1986 - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art (objects and installations)
• 1989 - London, Whitechapel Art Gallery - Broadgate Sculpture Project
• 1990 - Grizedale Forest Sculpture Park, Cumbria, England - Cherubic Wings (sculpture)
• 1991 - Cirencester, England - Seraphim (objects and installations)
• - London, Docklands - Cherubim (sculpture)
• - Dublin, Temple Bar - Guardian Angel (installation)
• 1993 - Venice, 45th Biennale - Representative of Macedonia (with Petre Nikoloski)

Group exhibitions

Stefanov has participated in more than 100 group exhibitions since 1973, among which are:

• 1977 - Rijeka (Croatia) - 9th Biennial of Yugoslav Young Artists-Modern Gallery (also 13th, 1985 and 14th Biennial,1987)
• 1977 - Belgrade (Yugoslavia) - 8th Exhibition of drawings by students of FLU, Gallery of the Young (also 9th, and 10th exhibitions)
• 1981 - Belgrade - 65th Exhibition of the Society of Artists at the Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion
• 1982 - Skopje (Macedonia), Museum of Contemporary Art - "Young Generation"
• 1983 - Skopje, 25 May Gallery-Macedonian Art in the last year "Critics Choice
• - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art - "20 Years of the Museum"
• 1984 - Skopje,25 May Gallery - "New Tendencies in Macedonian Art in the last Decade"
• - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art - "40 Years of Macedonian Art" - Belgrade, Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion (drawing and sculpture)
• - Sombor - 8th Triennial of Yugoslav Drawings, City Museum (also 9th,1987)
• - Zrenjanin (Yugoslavia) - 2nd Biennial Yugoslav Art, National Museum
• 1985 - Sarajevo (Bosnia), Collegium Artisticum -"View of the 80s"(Critics Choice)
• - Pancevo - 3rd Exhibition of Yugoslav Sculpture, Contemporary Art Gallery (also 4th, 1987 and 5th Biennial,1989)
• - Belgrade, Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion -"In the Meantime" (Critics Choice)
• - Banja Luka, Art Gallery - "Material as a Challenge" (Critics Selection)
• - Murska Sobota (Slovenia), DE Gallery; Ljubljana, Cankar House and Piran, Embankment Gallery - 8th Biennial of Yugoslav Sculpture (also 9th Biennial)
• 1986 - Zagreb, Gallery of Contemporary Art; Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art;
• - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art - "Six Macedonian Artists - From the Miraculousness of the Meadow to the Joy of Living"
• - Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum - "Art and Criticism in the Mid-80s"
• - Skopje, Museum of Macedonia - "80s in Macedonian Contemporary Art"
• - Vienna (Austria), Hoshcule fur Angewandle Kunst; Graz, Kunstlerhaus und Neue Gallerie; Klagenfurt, Kunstlerhaus - "Young Yugoslav Art"
• 1987 - Banja Luka, Art Gallery - "The Loneliest" (Critics Selection)
• - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art - First Biennial of Young Artists
• - Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum - "Yugoslav Documenta" (Critics Selection)
• - Athena (Greek), National Pinacoteca - "Contemporary Yugoslav Art"
• - Salzburg (Austria), Salzburgger Kunstverein; Dubrovnik (Croatia), Art Gallery; Bratislava (Slovakia), Slovenska Narodna Galeria; Lubljana (Slovenia), Modern Gallery; Prague (Czech), U Hubernu; Zagreb, Gallery of Contemporary Art; Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art; "Young Yugoslav Art" (Tour Exhibition-Critics Selection)
• 1988 - Belgrade, Exhibition Hall - 6th Triennial of Yugoslav Art
• - Skopje, 25 May Gallery - Drawings of Young Macedonian Artists
• - Zagreb, PM Art Pavilion and Gallery - "Young Selection"
• - Skopje, 25 May Gallery - "Environmental Sculptures"
• 1989-London(England), Whitechapel Art Gallery - Broadgate Sculpture Project
• - Sarajevo, Skenderija - "Yugoslav Documenta" (Critics Selection)
• - Carcassonne (France), Musee des Beaux Arts; Les Sables d'Olonne, Musee de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix - "Avant-Gardes Yougoslaves"
• 1990 - Toulon (France), Musee d'Art - "Avant-Gardes Yougoslaves"
• - Grizedale Sculpture Park, Cumbria (England)
• 1991 - Dublin (Ireland) - Sculpture Trail
• - London, Docklands (England) - Outside Art
• - Leicester (England), Abbey Park - Installations in the Park
• 1993 - Venice (Italy) - 45th Biennial, Macedonian Selection (with Petre Nikoloski)
• 1994 - Budapest, Ernest Museum-"Nature and Art in Central Europe" (Macedonian Selection)
• - Nurnberg (Germany), Kunstbunker - Seven Macedonian Artists
• 1995 - Dresden(Germany), Kulturrathaus - Seven Macedonian Artists
• 1996 - Berlin, Medien Galerie - Five Artist from Macedonia
• 1998 - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art - Anthology of Macedonian Art
• 1999 - Skopje, National Gallery - 20 Century Macedonian Art
• 2002 - Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art - "Transfiguration"
• - Novi Sad, Art Gallery - Balkan Art
• - Windsor, (Canada) - Artcite Gallery - "Artseen 10"
• 2003 - Windsor, (Canada) - Art Gallery of Windsor, -" RE: Wind"
• 2003 - Windsor, (Canada) - Smogfest

Awards

• 1981: Prize for Drawings from ULUS, Belgrade
• 1981: Prize for Sculpture from FLU (Academy of Fine Arts), Belgrade
• 1982: Awards from MSU (Museum of Contemporary Art), Skopje
• 1983: Macedonian Annual Award of the "Mlad Borec" magazine, Skopje
• 1983: "Seven Secretaries of SKOJ" - Yugoslav Annual Award, Zagreb
• 1986: '7 September Annual Award, Kavadarci
• 1986: Prize for Drawings from MSU, Skopje
• 1987: Prize for Sculpture from MSU, Skopje
• 1991: Prize for Installation, Leicester

References

External links

• Gligor Stefanov