Benjamin Vasserman's Online Portfolio

Born 1949

Estonian graphic artist and printmaker

Began to exhibit in 1978

Freelance artist since 1990

Membership: 1989 Estonian Artists' Association and 1992 Association of Estonian Printmakers

1973 - 1979 Estonian Academy of Arts (graphic art), Tallinn

Solo exhibitions:

1987 Tallinn Art Salon, Estonia; 1989 Cafe Viru, Moscow, Russia; Gallery Sammlung Villany, Brandenburg, Germany; 1990 Gallery Sininen Talo, Hameenlinna, Finland; 1992 Gallery-G, Tallinn, Estonia; Sylvia-Home, Lahti, Finland; 1993 Art Hall, Seinajoki, Finland; 1993, 1995, 1998 Gallery Neuendorf, Memmingen, Germany; 1994 Gallery Munkinseudun, Helsinki, Finland; Gallery Katariina, Turku, Finland; 1996 Gallery Wanhan Galleria, Tampere, Finland; 1998 House of Holy Spirit, Randers, Denmark; La Galerie Passage, Tallinn, Estonia; 1999 "Real Fiction", Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia; 2001 Gallery of Embassy of Estonia, Riga, Latvia; 2003 "Symbolic Threshold", Gallery Haus, Tallinn, Estonia; 2009 "Real Fiction/Volume II", Toompea Castle Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia; "Diagnosed Comeback", Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia

 

Over 120 international exhibitions in ca 35 countries

Tens Estonian art exhibitions in abroad and in home country

 

Awards:

1994, 1998 Honourable Mention - 3rd & 5th International Engraving Biennial, Ourense, Spain; 1995 Special Prize - 10th Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia; 1997 Special Prize - 9th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria; 1998 Diploma - 3rd International Biennial of Small Form Graphics, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2000, 2001 Diploma "Finalist" - 2nd & 3rd Mini-Graphic & Painting World-Wide Show "Pisa 2000" & "ITART 2001", Pisa, Italy; 2001 Diploma - 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria; Honorary Mention - 3rd International Mini-Print Biennial, Cluj, Romania; Printmaker of Year 2001 - Annual Prize of Estonian Printmaking; 2003 Second Prize - 10th International Biennale of Small Forms & Ex-Libris, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland; Gold Prize - International Print Biennial in Beijing, China; 2007, 2008 First Prize - Artperiscope.com - The Second & Third Internet Artwork Competition, Czestochowa, Poland; 2007 Second Prize - 6th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Vilnius, Lithuania; Honourable Mention - 9th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Art, Gyor, Hungary; Honorable Award - ARTOTEQUE’s Online Global Art Annual 2 ART NOW 2007, London, UK; 2008 Premio ALBA – 2008 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ferrara, Italy; Third Prize - 1st International Digital Graphic Arts Biennial, Gdynia, Poland; 2009 Gallery-G Annual Art Prize, Tallinn, Estonia; 2010 Kristjan Raud Annual Prize of Estonian Art