Education
1985-1991 Estonian Academy of Arts, Painting (MA)

Professional activities
2013- ... Estonian Artists' Association, President
2013- ... International Association of Art (IAA), Chairman of the National Committee of Estonia
2013- ... Tallinn Art Hall Foundation, Board Member
2012- ... Estonian Painters' Association, Board Member
2011- ... Estonian Academy of Arts, Assistant Professor of Painting
2011- ... Tartu Art School, Board Member
2001-2013 Sally Stuudio art school, Teacher, Founding Member (1991)
2001-2013 Estonian Art Portal www.kunstikeskus.ee, Editor 1997-1999 Advertising Agency ZOOM, Creative Director
1996-1998 Tartu Artists' Union, Board Member
1993-1995 Estonian Painters' Association, Board Member
1992-1996 Tartu University, Deputy Professor of Painting
1991-1992 Estonian Academy of Arts, Lecturer of Painting

Selected personal exhibitions
2014 "Motive" (Draakoni gallery, Tallinn)
2012 "Every Way" (Haus gallery, Tallinn)
2012 "Night Terror" (Draakoni gallery, Tallinn)
2010 "The Age of Innocence" (Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn)
2008 "Nocturnal Icarus" (Vaal gallery, Tallinn)
2005 Riigikogu kunstigalerii (Art Gallery of Estonian Parliament, Tallinn)
2005 "Lovely Times" (Haus gallery, Tallinn)
2004 Eesti Panga galerii (Art Gallery of Bank of Estonia, Tallinn)
2004 "Painting is Landscape" (Tartu Art Museum)

Selected group exhibitions
2015 "Continuity and Novelty. Contemporary Estonian Painting" (Pärnu Museum of New Art, curator Jaan Elken)
2014 "Chain" (Gallery ARKA, Vilnius, Lithuania)
2014 "Urge" (Tallinn Art Hall, curator Teet Veispak)
2014 "The Focus of Painting " (Pärnu Museum of New Art, curator Jaan Elken)
2013 "Two-way Street. Contemporary Estonian Painting" (Art Gallery Corfu Town, Greece, curator Jaan Toomik)
2012 "Hematoma" (Galleria 5, Oulu, Finland, curator Indrek Grigor)
2012 "Value and Crisis" (Vaal galerii, Tallinn, curator Kreg A Kristring)
2011 "Abstract" (Tallinn Art Hall, curator Leonhard Lapin)
2010 "Contradictions" (Tallinn Art Hall, curator Enn Põldroos)
2010 "House-Party vol. 2" (Haus gallery, Tallinn, exhibition of Estonian Painters' Association)
2009 "A Collection: Selected Works I" (Tallinn Art Hall, curator Harry Liivrand)
2009 "The Word of Painting vol. 2" (exhibition of Estonian Painters' Association, Tartu Art House)
2009 III International Drawing Triennial "Manu Propria" (National Library of Estonia, Tallinn)
2009 "The Accident of Painting" (Tartu Art House, curator Rauno-Thomas Moss)
2008 "Insights. Works from the art collections of EU central banks" (European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main)
2008 "Wake!" (Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, curators Tiiu Talvistu and Mare Joonsalu)
2008 "Freedom Square" (Tallinn Art Hall, curator Heie Treier)
2007 "The Right Choice" (Tartu Art House, curators Mara Koppel and Toomas Tõnissoo)
2007 "The Art of Living" (Tallinn Art Hall, curator Katrin Pere)
2006 "Pure Painting" (Jõhvi Town Gallery, curator Tiina Tammetalu)
2005 "Identities" (Tallinn Art Hall, curator Harry Liivrand)

Curatorial activities
2013 "Muuttuum" (Pärnu Artists' House and Draakoni gallery, Tallinn)
2013 "Comitative. Abessive" (Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn)
2009 "Self-Exposure" (Tallinn Art Hall)

Memberships
1992 Member of Estonian Artists' Association, Estonian Painters' Association and Tartu Artists' Union

Awards and grants
State Cultural Grant 1994, 1996, 2002
Sadolin Art Prize 1997
Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual Prize 2007

Works in collections
Works in the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Tallinn Art Hall, the Bank of Estonia, the National Library of Estonia, Sadolin, Swedbank and private collections in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain and Australia.

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