Yanko Tihov () (born 1977,

Burgas Burgas (, ), sometimes transliterated as Bourgas, is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, fourth-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, an ...

, Bulgaria) is a British and Bulgarian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed technique ...

Biography

''Yanko Tihov'' attended the National Academy of Arts in

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

from 1997 to 2001, before moving to

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, UK. He won prizes at Royal Institute of Oil Painters ROI (2004, 2007), Runner up of the Discerning Eye Exhibition (2008), Printmaking Ex Libris Award in Argentina (2001). He has exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Tokyo Printing Triennial, The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Miniature Prints and others. His work can be seen at private galleries and art fairs. Tihov's works include portraits and surreal urban images. His portrait of the Indian artist and Film Director

M. F. Husain Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian painter and film director who painted Narrative painting, narrative paintings in a modified Cubism, Cubist style. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressiv ...

was featured in 2014 BP Portrait Award at the

National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to: * National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra * National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred *National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C. *National Portrait Gallery, London ...

in London. Tihov lived in

Notting Hill Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a wikt:cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan and multiculturalism, multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting ...

, London, before relocating to

Bounds Green Bounds Green is a suburb to the north of Wood Green, in the London Borough of Haringey and London Borough of Enfield in north London. Parts of it are also known as New Southgate, but most of New Southgate lies in the London Borough of Enfield ...

, Enfield in 2014. In 2015 Tihov made ‘The London Passport Map', a digital edition hand painted with 23ct gold. The map was shown at Christie’s

South Kensington South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with the advent of the ra ...

, London. The London Passport Map was made from 32 different passports of the most common non-British nationalities in each London borough based on data from the 2011 census."This map perfectly displays the diversity of London"
''The Telegraph''.

Exhibitions and collections

* 1st Exlibris Contest Acqui Terme Rotary Club, Italy * 3rd International Triennial Of Printmaking, Sofia, Bulgaria * 4th International Graphic competition, Gliwice, Poland * 11th Printmaking Biennial Varna, Bulgaria * 21st Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain * 13th Exlibris small graphic exhibition Sint-Niklaas, Belgium * Asociacion Cultural Sanmartina de Gral.S.Martin, Argentina * 2nd Competition Biblioteca Comunale di Lomazzo, Italy * Exlibris Ville d’issy-les- Moulineaux, France * The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland * 14th Exlibris small graphic exhibition Sint-Niklaas, Belgium * 5th International Graphic competition Gliwice, Poland * Royal Society Of Portrait Painters Exhibition, London, UK * Royal Academy Of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, UK * The Pastel Society, London, UK * Royal Institute Of Oil Painters Exhibition, London, UK * Leonardo Sciascia Prize, Venice, Rome, Florence, Milan, Italy * 3rd Competition Biblioteca Comunale di Lomazzo, Italy * The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary prints, Iowa, USA * Jill George Gallery, The Figure Show, London, UK * ING Discerning Eye, Drawing Bursary, London, UK * Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London, UK * Lisa Sharpe Contemporary Art, One Alfred Place, London, UK * Jack Fine Art, London, UK * TAG Fine Arts, London, UK

Notes

References

* Who's Who In Art, 2008 33rd Edition, , Hilmarton Manor Press, Page 987
Artist Finder
* Who's Who In Art, 2008 33rd Edition, , Hilmarton Manor Press, Page 987 * Who's Who In Art, 2008 33rd and 34th Edition 2010, Hilmarton Manor Press,
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition

* ttp://www.americasbiennial.org/Selections/2006/pages/Friends.htm The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Prints
Jack Fine Art

Saatchi Online

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tihov, Yanko 1977 births Living people 21st-century Bulgarian painters Bulgarian printmakers Bulgarian expatriates in the United Kingdom People from Burgas