Rada Tzankova

Awards and honors:

2024 Duc d’Aumale Prize for Painting from the Institut de France
2014 – Winner of the Hundred Days Art Contest in San Francisco for Painting.
2012 – Purchase from the Asilah Foundation, Morocco
2010 – Purchase from the Plage Art Foundation
2009 – Purchase from the Colas Foundation
1999 – Pierre David – Weill Prize for Drawing
1995 – Jules Verne Prize for Graphics

Selected solo exhibitions:

2023 – The Spirit of Signs, Univer Gallery, Paris
Illustrated Books and Drawings, ARTCURIAL, Paris
2022 – The New Magics Books, ARTCURIAL, Paris
Temporarily, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia
2021 – Livres Magiques, ARTCURIAL, Paris
How Are You, My Friends?, Krasna Polyana Cultural Institute, Sofia
2019 – On the Road, Gallery Mansart, Paris
2017 – Sri Rada, Green Flowers Art Gallery, Boulogne-Billancourt
2015 – Underwater Garden/Gardin sous-marin, Gallery “Rakursi”, Sofia
2015 – L’eau de l’ame, Le prieuré Saint Gabriel, Normandy
2014 – Moving paintings, Bulgarian Cultural Center, Paris
The crossing, Green Flower Art Gallery, Boulogne-Billancourt
2011 – Confessions of Radad, Green Flowers Art Gallery, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
2010 – Vals in two times, Fontaine Henry Castle, Normandy
2009 – Pelekapina, Bulgarian Cultural Center, Berlin
Small paintings, Green Flowers Art Gallery, Piriac
2008 – Gone in Time, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia
Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Bern, Switzerland
2007 – I think, I walk, I meet, I dream…, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia
Green Flowers Art Gallery, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
2005 – The Fifth Season, Seasons Gallery, Sofia
Arthé Gallery, Moret sur Loing, France
2003 – Oryahovitsa, ART Gallery, Sofia
2002 – Apocalypse, French Cultural Institute, Sofia
Minko Balkanski Foundation, Cultural Center, Nova Zagora
2001 – Aurige, Alliance francaise, Barcelona
The Gallery of the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2000 – Francophone Day, Gallery of the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Center, Ministry of Culture, Sofia
1999 – Vanity, Gallery “Quai de Valmy”, Paris
African Drawings, CROSS Gallery, Paris
Landscapes, American University, Paris

Art collaborations and residencies:

2015 – Imago mundi project, Benetton Foundation
Un monde en noir et en coleur, Biennale de l’ecrit, Buchelay
2013 – Gue desert livre-mobile en tirage limite a 25 exemplaires, Editions Chatoyantes
2012 – Scenography for the play Ou va tu polain? On R. Moskova, Puppet Theater, Sofia
Festival of Contemporary Art, Maharesh, Morocco
2005 – Symposium of Contemporary Art, Albena, Bulgaria
Festival of Contemporary Art, Maharesh, Morocco
Residential Program Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria
2001 – Workshop of paper, Tarnos, France
2000 – Workshop of sculpture, studio of Paul Ahiy, Lomé, Togo
1999 – Illustrations for the book by Anne de Colbert – Encre Noire.