Nadezhda Kouteva ( bg, Надежда Кутева) is a
Bulgaria
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n artist with over ten awards in her career. Born in
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
, Kouteva graduated in Mural Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts “N. Pavlovich”, Sofia in 1971. Ten years later, Kouteva received a full scholarship at the
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design (known as the Corcoran School or CSAD) is the professional art school of the George Washington University, in Washington, DC.Peggy McGloneUniversity names first director of Corcoran School of the Arts and ...
in
Washington, D.C.
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Kouteva's first solo exhibition was in 1975 in Sofia. In the following years, Kouteva had over twenty exhibitions in different countries, including Cyprus, Vietnam, USA, Poland, Japan, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Germany.
Prizes
Kouteva won her first award in
Košice
Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...
,
Slovakia
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in 1977, the Prize of the Slovakian Artists' Fund.
In 1978, she was awarded with the "Humour and Satire in the Arts" prize in
Gabrovo
Gabrovo ( bg, Габрово ) is a town in central northern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Gabrovo Province.
It is situated at the foot of the central Balkan Mountains, in the valley of the Yantra River, and is known as an internationa ...
, Bulgaria. In 1986, she received the notable Bulgarian prize "
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
Zlatyu Georgiev Boyadzhiev (; 22 October 1903 – 2 February 1976) was a Bulgarian Painting, painter. He is known for his portraits and Landscape art, landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city, and vil ...
". In 2006 Kouteva was awarded with the Certificate and gold prize for a high prestige expert of the European Convent of Experts. In 2010, she also received the "Guardian of Traditions" prize in the painters category of the Association for the Development of Arts and Handicrafts in Bulgaria.
- Nadezhda Kouteva's official website. About Section
References
External links
Nadezhda Kouteva
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Living people
20th-century women artists
Bulgarian painters
Bulgarian women painters
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)