
Mariana Kalacheva
Mariana Kalacheva is a prize-winning artist based in the United States whose artwork can be found in multiple private, city, and corporate collections from California, New York, and Miami in the US to Monaco, France, Spain, Austria, Taiwan, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium, and Turkey.
She lives in Nice, France between 2010 and 2016, and later she moves to the USA.
Mariana has been working as a professional artist for nearly 25 years. Her styles can be easy-recognizable as naïve art and figurative art. She has dozens of solo and group exhibitions and she gets inspiration through traveling and discovering unknown cultures.
Her vibrant compositions are a mixture of light, images, patterns, texture, color, and figuration, which are all related to naïve art, art nouveau, secession, pop art, and surrealism. She encourages the viewer to have fun, to experience, touch, or dream through her art pieces.
Recently, she works with the so-called 3D art techniques, made of incorporated materials like structured pouring gels, pastes, and adhesive papers on canvas or wooden panels. The objects of her impressions are the silhouettes of women in dazzling feminine dresses, delicate flowers, or vivid houses.
Mariana’s masterpieces are hugely accessible and continue to leave a lasting warmth and purifying energy on her client’s residencies.
Contact:
+225 771 9612
mar.kalacheva@gmail.com
www.kalacheva.com
Education
Master’s Degree – Graphics, 2003 - Graduates the AMDFA – The Art Academy in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as well as Pedagogy and Methodology of Fine Arts.
Memberships
2002 – Member of Union Of Plovdiv Artists
2017 – Member of the Art Council, in Baton Rouge
2020 - Member of the AWA - Association of women artists in Baton Rouge.
2022 – Member of the Association of Naïve Art Bulgaria
2023 - Member of Bulgarian Artists Abroad Chicago
Solo Exhibitions
2023 – “The Spirit of The Sun” – Bagrena Gallery, Bulgarica Center, Chicago, IL
2017 – “Whimsical” – Exhibition with paintings, Caffery Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
2017 – “To tame” – Exhibition with paintings and ink drawings, P.A.R.K.Store Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2016 – “Spring Art Aleys” – Exhibition with paintings in Splendid Hotel & Spa; Nice, France
2016 – “Alisa”, Bibliotheque Municipale & Association Menton-Sotchi, Menton; France
2012 – “Air Bridges”, Le Papillon Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
2012 – Exhibition in art Gallery ” ‘t hof te puttens”, Lede, Belgium
2012 – “A Recipe for Magic”, Gildo Pastor Centre Art Gallery, Monaco
2011 – “A Recipe for Magic”, Jorj Papazoff Gallery and Novotel Plovdiv, Bulgaria /painting/
2010 – “Colorful Stories”, Bulgarian Culture Institute “House Wittgenstein”, Vienna, Austria /painting/
2010 – “Fragments”, “Pironessa” gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria /painting/
2010 – “Stories of Angels”, “Jorj Papazoff” gallery, Novotel Plovdiv, Bulgaria /painting/
2009 – “Mosaics”- “Urban Gallery – Karlovo”, Karlovo, Bulgaria /painting/
2009 – “Some minutes or less”, “Minerva” gallery, Grand Hotel Sofia, Bulgaria /painting/
2008 – “In-Sense”, “Minerva” gallery, Grand Hotel Sofia, Bulgaria /painting/
2006 – “Art Plus” gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria / painting/
2004 – “Jorj Papazov” gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria /drawings and graphics/
1998 – “Vazrazhdane” gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria /drawings/
Group Shows
2023 – Second International Virtual Biennale NAIVE Bulgaria 2023, organized by Salon of Naive and Intuitive Art
2022 – Second International Biennale NAIVE Bulgaria 2022, Nova art space Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 – Annual art Show – White Light Night ‘2022, Elizabethan Gallery, LA, USA
2022 – “Fifteen” Group Exhibition in Bagrena Gallery, Bulgarica,Chicago, IL
2022 – First International Virtual Biennale NAIVE Bulgaria 2023, organized by Salon of Naive and Intuitive Art
2021 – First International Biennale NAIVE Bulgaria 2021, Nova art space Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 – Annual art Show – White Light Night ‘2021, Elizabethan Gallery, LA, USA
2020 – Annual art Show – White Light Night ‘2020, Elizabethan Gallery, LA, USA
2020 – “Winter Thaw” – Winter warm Up, Elizabethan Gallery, LA, USA
2019 – “Breeze from the East”, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
2019 – Annual art Show – White Light Night ‘2019, Elizabethan Gallery, LA, USA
2019 – “Bulgarian Summer in Kapana” Art Naive in Kapana Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2019 – Salon of Naive and Intuitive Art, permanent exhibition, Town art Gallery in Belogradchik, Bulgaria
2018 – “49th National River Road Show”, juried art exhibition, Louisiana State Archives Building, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
2018 – “Hot Art, Cool Nights 2018” at Pink Elephant’s Mid-City, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
2018 – “4th annual Holiday Market at the Mill”, New Roads, LA, USA
2018 – “Art Soirée” – one-day show by Mariana Kalacheva and Orsolya Heim; Private property; Baton Rouge, LA, USA
2018 – “Brush with Burden”, juried art exhibition, Burden Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
2017 – “Perkins Rowe art festival”, Arts Council of Baton Rouge, LA, USA
2017 – Vernice Art fair – Forli Fiera, ArtExpo Gallery, Italy
2017 – ARTE Cremona; ArtExpo Gallery, Casalpusterlengo, Italy
2016 – Colorida Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 – ART Revolution, an international art contest & art fair, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 – Arte Internacional Naif, BCM gallery & CT Art Gallery, Reus , Tarragona, Spain
2014 – Arte Internacional Naif in BCM gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2014 – 4-me Rendez-vous des artistes Naifs/Verneul sur Avre, France
2014 – SIAC (Salon international d’art contemporain), Marseille, France
2013 – Artistes du Monde, International Exposition of Contemporary Art; Salon du Veux Port, Cannes,France
2013 – Summer exhibition – ‘t hof te puttens”, Lede, Belgium
2012 – Summer exhibition – ‘t hof te puttens”, Lede, Belgium
2012 – “100- years Society of the Artists from South Bulgaria” – Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2012 – “Exhibition Circus & Carnaval”, presented by Gildo Pastor Centre Art Gallery – Monaco
2011 – ” Femmes du Monde” – Ste Agnes, Medievale, Cote d’Azur France
2011 – “Vino deco”, exposition art naif, Chateau Verez, Cote d’Azur, France
2011 – “A flower for Palm Sunday” – Vox Art Gallery, Bourgas, Bulgaria
2011 – “Ladies choice”- opening with the special participation of the actor Stefan Danailov, Mall-Gallery Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2010 – “Christmas Exhibition 2010″ , Business Hotel Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2010 – “Exhibition of the Young Artists”, “AAP”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2009 – “Tuyap” , “Jorj Papazov” & “Valor” galleries, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 – “15 x 5″ – project by Lyubena Hadzhiyska, /AAP/
2007 – “77” – an exhibition of artists, born in 1977. – “Art Plus”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2007 – Krapetz Plain air, Municipality of Shabla, Bulgaria
2007 – “Love and Wine”, Tourist Information Center, Hissar, Bulgaria
2006 – “Annual Exhibition” Common of the Association of the artists in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2005 – XVII International Bienal of Humor and Satire – Gabrovo, Bulgaria
2004 – Curator of the project “Exhibition of the Young Artists” – /AAP/
2004 – Fourth International Triennial of Graphic Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria
2004 – Representative exhibition of graphic artists from Plovdiv, “Culture Centre”- Nis, Serbia
1998 – “The surrealism in Plovdiv”, “Vazrazhdane” gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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