Chavdar Vylov

Chavdar Valov was born in 1965 in Sofia. In 1984 he graduated from High school of Fine Arts "Iliya Petrov", where he was a student of Acad. Dechko Uzunov. In 1991 he graduated with a degree in Painting from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in the class of Acad. Naiden Petkov. In 2000 Chavdar, together with his wife, founded the publishing house "Tsveta". In the period from 2002-2004 they created the magazine "Integral" in cooperation with INDEPENDENT LIFE CENTER ASSOCIATION under the MATRA program - a publication intended for disadvantaged people in Bulgaria. From 2011 to 2015 Chavdar was a lecturer and director of High school of Fine Arts "Iliya Petrov". In 2015 he founded the group of artists "Gallery 10". He has had many solo and group exhibitions, some of which: participation as a student, first participation in a group artist exhibition of UBA (1989), participation in the initiative "Art without borders" - presentation of Bulgarian authors in Germany and Belgium (1997-1998) , two solo exhibitions at MAESTRO Gallery (2006, 2010), two solo exhibitions at PUNTO Gallery (2007, 2009), two solo exhibitions at Gallery 10 (2016, 2018), etc. His frescoes, mosaics and iconostasis can be seen in the Church "St. Nikolai ”- the village of Polikraishte, the crypt of the Russian church“ St. Nikolay ”, Sofia and others. He also works in the field of illustration and layout of printed publications. His paintings are in the possession of National Art Gallery - Sofia, BALBOK collection and private collections in: Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, France, Scotland, Japan, Switzerland, Russia and others. He lives and works in Sofia.