Atanas Parushev – Shoka

Born on 7 April 1958 in Sliven, Bulgaria.
Graduated in “Painting” in the National Academy of Arts, class of prof. Ivan Kirkov (1985). 
He has more than 20 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2021 - Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Sofia

2020 - Passions, Gallery 8, Varna

2019 - Passions, Iordan Kyuvliev Gallery, Sliven

2018 - Exhibition, Stubel Gallery, Sofia

2015 - Abstract, Stubel Gallery, Sofia
2011 – Verticals, Gallery Art 36, Sofia
2009 – Gallery Agora Art, Sliven
2007 – Verticals, Gallery L’Union, Plovdiv
2004 – Abstraction, Club Cultural Tourism, Sliven
2001 - Gallery Pi Artwork, Istanbul, Turkey; Gallery Art 36, Sofia
1995 – Art Salon Agora Art

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2015 – U.P.A.R.K. Gallery, Plovdiv
2014 – Untold abstraction, Shipka 6
2012 – Exhibition center of The Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA), Sliven; Exhibition Center of UBA, Sofia
2009 – About wine…and not only, Exhibition center Manege, Moscow, Russia
2006 - Ivan Kirkov and his students – 20 years after the beginning, Shipka 6, Sofia
2006 – International art exhibition Eastern Neighbors, Cultural center Babel, Utrecht, Holland
2005 – Personal Mythologies – Shipka 6, Sofia
2004 – Exhibition of artists participating in Plein Air Kabile 2004, Gallery Bogoridi, Burgas
1990 – Moderate avant-garde within the confines of traditions, Shipka 6, Sofia

AWARDS:

Vladimir Dimitrov-Maystora National Award (2022)
Dobri Chintulov award, Sliven (2007)
Sirak Skitnik Award, Sliven (2000 and 2002) 
Second Prize for Painting, Autumn Salon, Sofia (1993)
Works of Atanas Parushev are in possession of National Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Gallery “Dimitar Dobrovich”, Sliven, private collections and art museums abroad.