Kolibarov Dimo

Education

• 1979 – 1984 Tsanko Lavrenov Secondary School of Arts, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• 1990 1996 National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

Experience

Since 2003                 Associate Professor, National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Printmaking, Sofia, Bulgaria

• 2000 Solo exhibition, Epreune d’Artiste Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Awards

• 1991 Honorary Mention, Toronto, Canada
• 1992 nd Prize for Printmaking, Au Virage Gallery, Sepre, Switzerland
• 1993 Honorary Medal, Lodz, Poland
• 1994 Honorary Mention, Print Triennial, Orense, Spain
• 1994 Jury´s Award, Print and Drawing Triennial, Vaasa, Finland
• 1994 Grants for Printmaking, Open Society Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1995, 2001 Prize for Printmaking, Art Dialogue Foundation, Paris, France, from                                  International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
• 1996 nd Prize, Miniprint, Space Group, Seoul, Korea
• 1997 Purchase Award, Gulky Museum, Portland, USA
• 2001 Award, Miniprint, Nish, Serbia and Montenegro
• 2001 Diploma, Print Triennial, Ufa, Russia
• 2002 Grand Prix, Tokyo International Miniprint Triennial, Tokyo, Japan
• 2002 Josef Vashal Certificate of Honor, Havířov, Czech Republic
• 2002 Honorary Mention, Biennial of Bulgarian Art, Pleven, Bulgaria
• 2003 Jury´s Award, 1st International Biennial of Ex libris, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 2005 Honorary Mention, Ex libris Competition, Boggio Lomnago, Italy
• 2007 Diploma, Miniprint International Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania
• 2008 Award for Printmaking, Alianz, Bulgaria, Special Jury´s Award, Ex libris competition, Bogio Lomnago, Italy

2nd Prize, First International Print Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

• 2009 st Prize, International Exhibition of Small Prints, Milano, Italy
• 2010 Jury´s Award, International Print Triennial, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 2011 Jury´s Award, International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
• 2012 Jury´s Award, International Print Biennial, Bitolya, Macedonia, 1st Award, Ex libris Erotica, Beijing, China
• 2014 Jury´s Award, International Print Triennial, Sofia, Bulgaria; Honorary Mention, 1st Ex libris Competition Varna, Bulgaria
• 2015 Wondering Mind, Epreuve d’Artiste Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Since 1987 many exhibitions and participation in international Biennials and triennials in Bulgaria, Germany, Scotland, Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Romania, Japan, France, Portugal, Kuwait, Slovakia, Switzerland, Greece, Korea, USA. He expresses mostly through print. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Contact: kolibarovdimo@hotmail.com