Krassimira Mihaylova

Maestro Krasimira Mihaylova was born in 1942 in the town of Varna, Bulgaria.

She graduated from the Bulgarian National Academy of Art, in the Graphics Division, under Prof. Evtim Tomov and Prof. Veselin Staykov.

Initially, her professional career was connected with fashion. She modelled for the Lada Fashion Magazine and the New Goods and Fashion Centre, and subsequently engaged in clothes designing.

In the 1970s, she turned her attention to printing and illustrations of books and manuals. She worked for the Narodna Prosveta Publishers and the Problems Group in Education with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Public Education under Academician Blagovest Sendov, famous for its experimental education of children.

In the 1987 – 2002 period, she was an art editor with the St Kliment Ohridski University Publishers. She also contributed to various publishing houses and the periodical press.

She has authored the illustrations and artistic layout of many manuals, books and printed matter.

Since 1990s she works actively in the domain of painting. She had solo exhibitions and participated in general, national and group exhibitions around the world.

A particularly interesting fact is her kinship with the Dospevski clan, who founded the Samokov Painting School, and its foremost representatives Zahari Zograph, Dimiter Zograph and Stanislav Dospevski.

She has been member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1982.  

Solo exhibitions

• "Autobiographical" painting exhibition, Sezoni gallery, Sofia, 2001.

• Painting exhibition "Curly Refuges", SBH Gallery, 6 Shipka St., Sofia, 2002.

• Painting exhibition "By the Blue Water", National Assembly, Sofia, 2003.

• Painting exhibition "Bagri near Rhodope", LIK gallery, 2005.

• Painting exhibition "Emotional presences", SBH gallery, 6 Shipka St., Sofia, 2012.

• "Landscape" painting exhibition, Art spice gallery, Sofia, 2013.

• Painting exhibition, Tandra gallery, Bankya, 2014.

• Painting exhibition "Sense of community", Bulgaria gallery, with the participation of Valentin Savchev, sculpture, Sofia, 2015.

• Jubilee painting exhibition "Attraction", SBH gallery, 6 Shipka St., 2018.

National, general and group exhibitions

• National exhibition of the illustration and art of the Bulgarian book, Sofia, 1970, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1996, 2006.

• General art exhibition, Plovdiv, 1983.

• Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1987.

• 30th anniversary "Golden Feather", Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988.

• First International Biennale of Illustration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1990.

• Traditional annual exhibition of the artists in the Izgrev area, Sofia,

(from 1999 to 2018).

• Painting exhibition "Spiritual messages", Vitosha gallery, Sofia, 2002, 2003.

• Exhibition-competition "Cite Internationale des Arts-Paris", SBH gallery, 6 Shipka St., Sofia, 2002, 2003.

• Annual exhibition of ASTRI Gallery, Sofia (from 2002 to 2014).

• Painting exhibition "The Four Seasons", VITOSHA gallery, Sofia, 2003.

• Painting exhibition "Tradition and Continuity" of the Rotary Club,

          Gallery Hall Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005.

• Painting exhibition "Personal Mythologies", SBH gallery, 6 Shipka St., Sofia, 2005.

• Annual exhibition of the "Graphics and Illustration" section, SBH gallery, Shipka Street

6, Sofia, 2006, 2008.

• Painting exhibition "Close distance", SBH gallery, 6 Shipka St., Sofia, 2008.

• Painting exhibition, MAXIM gallery, Sofia, 2008, 2010.

• Third Biennial of Small Forms, Pleven, 2008.

• Exhibition-competition "National Awards Allianz Bulgaria", SBH gallery, Shipka 6, Sofia, 2008, 2010, 2016.

• IV National Art Exhibition "Landscape", Vidin, 2007.

• Painting exhibition, Questions gallery, Sofia, 2007.

• Salon 2011, SBH gallery, 6 Shipka St., Sofia, 2011.

• Art Spice gallery exhibition, "The Spirit of Spring", Russian Cultural and Information Center, 34 Shipka Street, Sofia, 2014.

• Landscape exhibition in the Painting section, SBH, 6 Shipka St., 2017.

• General exhibition "80 years of the Sofia Philharmonic and 90 years of Bulgaria Hall", Bulgaria Hall gallery, 2017.

• 16th Annual Painting Exhibition Format 30/30, ASTRI Gallery, 2017.

The artist's artworks are owned in private, public collections worldwide.

Snow Pearl art gallery provides certificates of authenticity for all artworks of the artist.