Neno Belchev

short CURRICULUM VITAE
NENO BELCHEV BELCHEV
2009

SELECTED AWARDS & COMPETITIONS:
August - November 2009 Grant at the OCAT (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum) International Art Residency 2009, www.ocat.com.cn
Sept - Oct 2008 Grant – artist in residency by REDline’08_BORDERING ON US programme
in Espaço IMERGE of IDEIAS EMERGENTES (IMERGE) (catalog), (www.imerge.com.pt), Porto, Portugal redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/
July 2007 Grant by European Culture Foundation - special guest of ESPACE 29 for contemporary art, Bordeaux and LES OUVRIERS DU CHAI, Sainte Foy La Grande, FRANCE;
January - March 2007 Grant – artist in residency in ICC + S-AIR 2006 Exchange Programme(catalog), Sapporo, Japan, sair.exblog.jp/4583279/;
April 2006 Prize of jury for best video at ON DIFFERENCE # 2(catalog), Sofia, Bulgaria, ondifference2.i-space.org/index_en.php?page;
November 2003 First prize for experimental photography at the 1st NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON(catalog), Varna, Bulgaria www.fotosalonvarna.org/en/winner5.htm;

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
November 2009 “What Do You Want for Your Body?” open studio in the frames of the International Art Residency 2009 at the OCAT (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum), www.ocat.com.cn/, Shenzhen, China
May 2007 SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 3, Georgi Velchev Art Gallery Museum, Varna; April 2007 SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 2, Gallery 8, Varna, Bulgaria;
February 2007 Two men exhibition - video art, gallery HIDAMARI, Sapporo, Japan sair.exblog.jp/4583279/ a3.stalker.bg/index.htm;
February 2005 Exhibition, video art and paintings, Gallery 8, Varna, Bulgaria;
June 2004 Outdoor Sculpture Show, International Theatre Festival Varna Summer, Varna, Bulgaria; June 2002 MATERIAL EXPRESSION OF PRAYER, or Quintessence of Suffering, Plastic Works of Art of black dough, Art Gallery Artin, Varna, Bulgaria

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
October 2009 “The Invisible Generation”, OCAT, Shenzhen, China, curator Per Hüttner & Daniele Balit, theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com/
October 2009 the exhibition “Bulgarian Connection”, curator Micelle Blume - Switzerland, gallery 44, Genoa, Italy
June 2009 the exhibition “TAKE ME TO THE RIVER - ISTANBUL”, curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Wichita Falls Museum, Texas, USA
May 2009 NOPASSWD international festival for contemporary art – Genoa, Italy www.nopasswd.com/
March 2009 international exhibition “TAKE ME TO THE RIVER”, curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Depo - Tütün Deposu, Istanbul, Turkey
December 2008 KAUNAS IN ART: “CONTEXTS” festival for contemporary art (catalog),
curator Krzysztof Stanislawski, Kaunas, Lithuania, www.menoparkas.lt/kaunasinart/contexts/kia-en.html
October 2008 REDline’08_Bordering on Us - International Meeting of Contemporary Art
Community, Identity and Representation, IDEIAS EMERGENTES, Rua Santa Catarina, 777, Porto, Portugal (catalog) redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/
October 2008 10th international panorama of independent films & video makers, Patras, Greece September 2008 Balkan Art Week “What Is White?”, Ada Street Gallery, London, England, curators: Jenny Lee and Piera Ravnikar, (catalog) terminal00.org/news/
August 2008 7th Biennial for Visual Arts “August in Art”, Varna, Bulgaria, curator Philip Zidarov, (catalog) www.augustinart.com/
June 2008 World One Minutes exhibition, Today Art Museum, (catalog), Beijing, China www.theoneminutes.org/public/index.php?thissection_id=1
March 2007 International festival for visual arts, ICC fest - 2007, Sapporo, Japan;