Sandra Strēle
Sandra Strēles' work depicts isolated and surreal landscapes combined with everyday scenes. Her work immerses the viewer as an observer, In her work, Sandra seamlessly merges past, present, and future, offering glimpses of reality from different overlapping points. Strēles' creative process is infused with emotion, story telling , and a genuine concern for her audience's experience.
Sandra Strēle graduated in 2016 from the Art Academy of Latvia, acquiring her Master's degree in Painting. She received the visual arts scholarship of the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation in 2012, the Brederlo von Sengbusch Art Prize in 2014, the SEB Banka scholarship in painting in 2016, the prestigious grant from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Canada (2019, 2021) and Young Painter Prize in 2019. Sandra Strēle has held a number of solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions and artist residences in Italy, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, India, Belgium, Germany, France and elsewhere.
b. 1991, Latvia
EDUCATION
2016 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting department,
MA 2014 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting department,
BA 2013/2014 Royal Art Academy of Antwerp, „ERASMUS”
SOLO SHOWS
2024 (Forthcoming) Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2023 “Exhibitions that never happened: Thickets“, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2022 Solo exhibition “Overgrowth“, The Rooster Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 “Doppelboden“, SomoS Art House gallery, Berlin, Ger-many
2021 “Better Travel/ Atvērums“, Art Station “Dubulti“, Dubulti, Latvia
2020 “Exhibitions that never happened“, Saiauliai Art Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania
2020 “Exhibitions that never happened“, Pamenkalnio gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 “Exhibitions that never happened“, LOOK! gallery, Riga, Latvia
2020“Exhibitions that did not happen“, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019 Solo exhibition “GETTING READY FOR WINTER“, Mod-ern art gallery, Livani, Cesis
2019 “NOSTALGIA”, Riga Art Space, Latvia
2019 “CHRONICLES OF LONGINGS”, Concert hall Cesis, Latvia
2018 “MELANCHOLY”, Valmiera culture centre, Latvia 2018 “MELANCHOLY”, Jurmala City Museum, Latvia
2017 “MELANCHOLY”, Goethe Institut Riga, Latvia
2016 “MELANCHOLY Radisson Blu Elizabete Hotel, Riga, Latvia
2016 “COLLECTING”, Kalnciema Quarter gallery, Riga, Latvia
2014 PLACE 57/24”, gallery „Happy Art Museum”, Riga, Latvia
2014 largescale installation „IN THE FOREST IV”, Vecmilgravis, Riga, Latvia
2014 largescale installation „IN THE FOREST III”, gallery „Ziema”, Riga, Latvia
2013 largescale installation, IN THE FOREST II”, abandoned Egypt’s Lutheran church, territory of Latvia, Medumi, Latvia
2012 largescale installation „IN THE FOREST I”, abandoned old Cot-ton fabric “Boļševička”, Riga, Latvia
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022 PIAB Award - Grand Artist award, FIABCN, Barcelona
2021 2nd Grant from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Cana-da
2020 Boynes emerging artist award, shortlisted TOP 20
202 WING gallery award, shortlisted TOP 10
2019 Young Painter Prize main award
2019 Grant from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada
2019 “Latvia’s State Forests” scholarship in painting
2016 SEB bank scholarship in painting
2014 Brederlo von Sengbusch” Art Prize
2012 nara Tetereva scholarship in Arts
OTHER
2022 FIABCN, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Fasade paintings for kindergarden “Mežrozīte”, Riga, Latvia
2019 JCE biennale residency in Montrouge, Paris, France
2017 Fasade paintings of kindergardens “266” and “Kadiķītis”, Riga, Latvia
2017 Participation in KUNO organized workshop “Building up a phantasmagorical memory”, Aarhus, Denmark
2015 Internship at the 56th Venice Biennale, Latvian National Pavil-lion
2015 Participation in the international visual arts residency at Glo’art art center, Lanaken, Belgium
2015 Participation in the international art residency “Mark Rothko
2015”, Daugavpils Mark Rothko center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2014 International workshop, Make your own press”, organized by KUNO, Bergen, Norway and Tallinn, Estonia
2013 International residency “The wall of Europe”, Sardinia, Italy
2013 International workshop “Illegal aesthetics”, Tallinn, Estonia
