Juris Jurjāns

1944

He received his professional education in the Janis Rozentals Riga Art High school (1962) and in the Painting Department of the Latvian Art Academy, where he graduated  with the painting „Summer”,supervised by  Eduards Kalniņš. He is a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union (1975) and has  contributed to exhibitions since 1969. His artworks have been shown in Riga,Moscow, New York, Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Helsinki, Berlin, Vilnius, Tokio, Tallinn, London, Warsaw and other cities.  He has also had many solo shows. He was the chairman of the Painting Section of The Latvian Artists’ Union. His artworks can be found in the collections of the Latvian National Art Museum, Latvian Artists’ Union, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and in private collections in Latvia, Russia, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Canada, the USA, Japan, France, Finland, Estonia, England and elsewhere. He is a professor of the Latvian Art Academy.