Milena Radeva
Date and place of birth: February 26, 1988, Sofia
Education: major in "Graphics" - Iliya Petrov National Institute of Fine Arts; major in "Book and Printed Graphics" at the National Academy of Arts - bachelor's and master's degrees; PhD on the topic: "Bulgarian Artistic Illustration from the Early 1940s to the Late 1980s. Trends and Phenomena".
Professional experience (in a few words): I was a drawing teacher for a short time, I worked as a photojournalist in a magazine for 10 years, but all the time I have been a freelance illustrator of children's books.
Exhibitions:
Graduate exhibition of the National Academy of Fine Arts – Bachelor – 2010
Graduate exhibition of the National Academy of Fine Arts – Master – 2011
International exhibition – Bulgaria-Germany-Korea-Israel – 2011
International exhibition – Bulgaria-Germany-Korea – 2010
Leipzig Book Fair – presentation of the book “Antichrist” – 2009
Amaterasu Foundation – Book Art – 2015
Bat Art (International Night of Bats) – Green Balkans 2015
Solo exhibition-tour “Animalia”:
“The Great Return” – November 18, 2015 – November 21, 2015 – Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Amaterasu Foundation – Mini paper art – 2016 – Award for the smallest work – one-year membership in IAPMA
Exhibition of the newly admitted members of the Union of Bulgarian Artists – April 2016
Amaterasu Foundation – Mini paper art – 2017
General international exhibition of children's books in Sweden – 2017
“The Millennium Generation – ILLUSTRATORS” – organized by Milena Radeva and the website “Bulgarian Illustration” – December 12-17, 2017 – Marble Foyer, National Palace of Culture
“The Ancient Forests of Bulgaria and Their Inhabitants” – January 17 – March 31, 2018 – National Museum of Natural History
Awards:
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year – Award for #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com
“The street where the dollar tree grew” – children’s book – First price for Children’s book
Amaterasu Foundation – Mini paper art – 2016 – Award for smallest work – one-year IAPMA membership
Illustrated works: Oh, well, this will be very difficult for me, because there are already almost 100. I won’t bother you with all of them. But I want to share and thank Terri Kelley, Ally Nathaniel, Leah Selakovich, Tuula Perre, Helena Macalino and the publishing houses SoftPress and Prosveta for their work.
Favorite illustrator: I’m very old-school in this regard. Beatrix Potter, Edmund Dulac, Libico Maria, Arthur Rackman, Cecilia Mary Baker, Tony Wolf, Marcel Marlier and at the same time Oliver Jeffers, Alexander Steffensmeier and many others.
Favorite illustrated book? If I had to limit myself to one… I will never forget the books of Libico Maria. I don't know if it's because I like them a lot or because I associate them with my childhood, but Mariah's Andersen fairy tales are images that have always inspired me.
On the other side is Winnie the Pooh, but he is a different kind of love.
What book do you dream of illustrating? Andersen fairy tales, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Lewis Carroll... I think that no matter how many times I work on these themes, I will never be able to make them perfect (as per the criteria in my head)
Website:
www.facebook.com/MilenaRadevaArts
https://www.amazon.com/Milena-Radeva/e/B00H5NNJ7Q/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1519634609&sr=8-2
Facebook/Instagram/Twitter page:
http://animaliaexhibition.seimenus.com/
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