Ingrīda Kadaka (born 29 July 1967, in

Riga Riga ( ) is the capital, Primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city of Latvia. Home to 591,882 inhabitants (as of 2025), the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population. The population of Riga Planni ...

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) is an artist and book designer and illustrator,Jānis Baltvilks, ''Izmazgātās debesis: dzejoļi bērniem,'' Rasa ABC, 2000. best known for her work in the media of oil painting and etching. She matriculated at the

Art Academy of Latvia The Art Academy of Latvia () is an institution of higher education and scientific research in art, located in Riga, Latvia. The neo-Gothic brick building is located on Krišjānis Valdemārs Street, next to the National Museum of Art. In aut ...

(1989), from which she received her BA (1993) and MA (1995). She has been a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia since 1997, and has exhibited frequently in solo and group shows in her native country; she was awarded grants by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia in 2003 and 2005. Her work is noteworthy for its exploitation of folklore motifs, brilliant color, simple and striking forms, and humor; in these respects, a comparison with the art of

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would strike some viewers as apropos.

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Gallery website.
1967 births Living people Artists from Riga Latvian illustrators Latvian women illustrators 20th-century Latvian painters 21st-century Latvian painters 20th-century Latvian women painters 21st-century Latvian women painters Art Academy of Latvia alumni {{Latvia-painter-stub