Yanko Tihov ( bg, Янко Тихов) (born 1977,

Burgas Burgas ( bg, Бургас, ), sometimes transliterated as ''Bourgas'', is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the fourth-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a popu ...

, Bulgaria) is a British and Bulgarian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

Biography

''Yanko Tihov'' attended the

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from 1997 to 2001, before moving to

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, UK. He won prizes at Royal Institute of Oil Painters ROI (2004, 2007), Runner up of the Discerning Eye Exhibition (2008), Printmaking Ex Libris Award in Argentina (2001). He has exhibited at

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Summer Exhibition, Royal Institute of Oil Painters,

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Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize is an annual art award, intended to encourage creative representational painting and draughtsmanship. It gives out prizes totalling £25,000. The prize originated in London in 2005, with a collaboration between the Wo ...

, Tokyo Printing Triennial, The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Miniature Prints and others. His work can be seen at private galleries and art fairs. Tihov's works include portraits and surreal urban images. His portrait of the Indian artist and Film Director

M. F. Husain Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Ind ...

was featured in 2014

BP Portrait Award The BP Portrait Award is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. It is the successor to the John Player Portrait Award. It is the most important portrait prize in the world, and is reputedly ...

at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Tihov lived in

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, London, before relocating to

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in 2014. In 2015 Tihov made ‘The London Passport Map', a digital edition hand painted with 23ct gold. The map was shown at

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, London. The London Passport Map was made from 32 different passports of the most common non-British nationalities in each London borough based on data from the 2011 census."This map perfectly displays the diversity of London"
''The Telegraph''.

Exhibitions and collections

* 1st Exlibris Contest Acqui Terme Rotary Club, Italy * 3rd International Triennial Of Printmaking, Sofia, Bulgaria * 4th International Graphic competition, Gliwice, Poland * 11th Printmaking Biennial Varna, Bulgaria * 21st Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain * 13th Exlibris small graphic exhibition Sint-Niklaas, Belgium * Asociacion Cultural Sanmartina de Gral.S.Martin, Argentina * 2nd Competition Biblioteca Comunale di Lomazzo, Italy * Exlibris Ville d’issy-les- Moulineaux, France * The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland * 14th Exlibris small graphic exhibition Sint-Niklaas, Belgium * 5th International Graphic competition Gliwice, Poland * Royal Society Of Portrait Painters Exhibition, London, UK * Royal Academy Of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, UK * The Pastel Society, London, UK * Royal Institute Of Oil Painters Exhibition, London, UK * Leonardo Sciascia Prize, Venice, Rome, Florence, Milan, Italy * 3rd Competition Biblioteca Comunale di Lomazzo, Italy * The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary prints, Iowa, USA * Jill George Gallery, The Figure Show, London, UK * ING Discerning Eye, Drawing Bursary, London, UK * Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London, UK * Lisa Sharpe Contemporary Art, One Alfred Place, London, UK * Jack Fine Art, London, UK * TAG Fine Arts, London, UK

Notes

References

* Who's Who In Art, 2008 33rd Edition, , Hilmarton Manor Press, Page 987
Artist Finder
* Who's Who In Art, 2008 33rd Edition, , Hilmarton Manor Press, Page 987 * Who's Who In Art, 2008 33rd and 34th Edition 2010, Hilmarton Manor Press,
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition

* ttp://www.americasbiennial.org/Selections/2006/pages/Friends.htm The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Prints
Jack Fine Art

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tihov, Yanko 1977 births Living people Bulgarian painters Bulgarian printmakers Bulgarian expatriates in the United Kingdom People from Burgas