URL : http://www.zalans.com 

Education
1988 -1992 Latvian Academy of Arts , Department of pedagogy, B.F.A./painting/
1984 – 1987 Riga Applied Art College. Department of decorative painting
since 2001 Member of The Artists’ Union of Latvia
since 2007 Member of international art org. D.Fleiss& east west artists 

Solo exibitions
2008 Paintings. EE FineArt gallery, Cambridge,                                                U.K.
S.A.P. Little VanGogh gallery, Bruxelles                                                        BELGIUM
2007 Waiting for NOA, Terbatas Centrum, Riga
2006 Lonely planet and an other diamonds, gallery A7, Riga
Hostal Catalan, Rodriguez-Amat Foundation,Girona,                                   SPAIN
Life above water, gallery Laiptai, Siauliai,                                                   LITHUANIA
2005 INDIA ... MOROCCO ,gallery LAIPA, Valmiera
Why this country seems so special?, Daugavpils Museum of Arts and Studies
2004 Ticket to Japan, gallery Mans`s, Jekabpils
Welcome to V.!, Locanda Antica, Vellano, PS,                                                ITALY
Reconstruction, Centrum hotel, Viljandi,                                                     ESTONIA
2003 ANIMA, gallery Art garden, Riga
Landscape, Town hall ,Hoje-Taastrup,                                                     DENMARK

Selected group exibitions
2008 MARCHE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DU QUARTIER LATIN, Paris FRANCE
F.A. presente, Galerie Claire de Villaret, Paris                                            FRANCE
Art Ireland Spring Collection                                                                          IRELAND
Cambridgeshire Art Fair                                                                                       UK
2007 Opening exhibition, EE Fine Art gallery, Cambridge                             UK
Talent-aid International, EPO Exibition space, Den Haag,                NETHERLANDS
2006 Man in the city , Gallery PRATO, Olomouc , Praha                   CZECH Republic
ART DORS National Museum of Moldova, Chisineu,                              MOLDOVA
2005 Mouse,Utsav Foundation, New Delhi,                                                  INDIA
2003 Private space, art Museum Arsenals, Riga

 Public comissions
2007 Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2007 , Cambridge,                                         UK
2006 ART PERISCOPE , Czenstohow,                                                        POLAND
2004 City and industry, Open Atelier De Vrijplaats, Amsterdam,   NETHERLANDS

Professional expierence
2008 1st International Openart Residency,                                              GREECE
International Visual Arts Festival in Monastir T                                         T UNISIA
Open day at European Council, representator of Latvia, Brussels,    BELGIUM
AnsanFringe Festival,Ansan,Seoul                                                      SOUTH KOREA
Helgarein Art Festival, Stavanger,                                                              NORWAY
PERFO 08, Pori,                                                                                            FINLAND
ILLUMINATOR , digital images, Koltcovo airport, Jekaterinburg,          RUSSIA
2nd edition of ROLL UP ART, Bucharest                                                ROMANIA
2007 lecture and creative residency in Haifa University, Haifa,            ISRAEL
selfdirected painting residency in Cairo,                                                   EGYPT
1stInternational Symposium of Modern Art , Mallnitz ,                             AUSTRIA
painting residency Villa Garikula,                                                               GEORGIA
2006 Art Simposium Eurointegration through Art , Chisineu,              MOLDOVA
Art Simposium Natural pigments , Hucisko,                                            POLAND
7th international Plein-air ZELWA2006 ,Sejny,                                        POLAND
2005 painting residency in Fez, Chefchaoen                                         MOROCCO
2004 VELLANOARTE 2004,2005 Vellano, Tuscany,                                  ITALY
painting residency in Viljandi,                                                                      ESTONIA
selfdirected painting residency in Praha,                                            CZECH Republic
2003 painting residency in Zurich                                                           SWITZERLAND
International Open Air Painting& Drawing workshop Pskov,                   RUSSIA


Awards , Grants
2007 Trophée Arts-up 2007 Award                                                               FRANCE
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation,                                     GEORGIA
Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN
2006 scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture And Science of NETHERLANDS
Travel grant Prins Bernhard CultuurFonds                                          NETHERLANDS
Artist in residency The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation, Girona,/RESARTIS/ SPAIN
Eurogallery Award Scheme 2005 Bronze Award
2005 Artist Fellowship, GAC int. Artist residency, Delhi,                                 INDIA
Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
BEL ART online AWARD                                                                                PORTUGAL
2004 Artist in Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso /RESARTIS/ ,                   SPAIN
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation,                                          SPAIN
2003 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
Artist in Residency, Hooje-Taastrup, Copenhagen,                                  DENMARK

Represented in collections
Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko collection, The Artists Union of Latvia, Museum of Limbazi Daugavpils and Talsi art Museums (LATVIA), municipality of Viljandi , ESTONIA, municipality of Hoje-Taastrup, DENMARK municipality of Vellano,PS, ITALY,private collections in FRANCE,GERMANY,DENMARK, ESTONIA, LITHUANIA, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA