Ieva Epnere
1977, Latvia
Ieva Epnere (1977, Latvia) is an internationally recognised multimedia artist. She received Purvītis Prize in 2019. Epnere graduated department of Visual Communication of the Latvian Academy of Arts (2003), the department of Textile Art (2001) and graduated from HISK in Ghent (2012).
Major solo exhibitions: “On Water, Wind, and Faces of Stone” (Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island, 2018), “Hybrid Identities” (HIT Gallery, Bratislava, 2018), “Sea of Living Memories” (Art in General, New York , 2016), “Pyramiden and Other Stories” (Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw, 2015), “Paradise for a Young Man” (“Paradīze jaunam cilvēkam” at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, 2015), “Waiting Room” (Contretype, Brussels, 2015), “ Memory of Space ”(“Telpas atmiņa” at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, 2013)