Ina Bainova Biography
She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria where Ina studied geology at the University of Sofia. She moved to Venezuela in 1966 where she began studied painting. In 1969 she moved to Germany to studying drawing and painting at the Kunst Adademie of Colonia and the Hannover School of Plastic Art where she graduated as a graphics designer and painter.
In 1975 she returned to Venezuela where she opened her own studio. Ina began her career as a painter and private instructor, and an art teacher at the Newman Institute of Design. Presently, she is a graduate student adviser at the well known Armando Reveron School of Art in Venezuela.
Ina Bainova has participated in more than 100 exhibitions in Venezuela and abroad. Her art work is permanently displayed at the following museums: La Estampa Museum y Cruz Diez Design Center, the National Gallery of Art in Caracas, the Public National Library in Caracas and the Fine Arts Museum in Caracas. Also her art is owned by private collector and investors aboard.
Individual Exhibitions
2008 Private Exhibition at Galleria Pollock, oils and prints, Caracas.
2008 Berlin Museum of Arts, Nov., oils, prints, Germany.
2007 Blassini Gallery in acrylics, Caracas.
2006 Varna Gallery, acrylics, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2005 Academy Gallery, acrylics, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2004 Museum of Foreign Art in prints and monotypes. Sofia, Bulgaria.
2004 Embassy of Bulgaria in prints and monotypes, Caracas.
2004 Museo la Estampa y del Diseño Cruz Diez prints, chromatics and monotypes, Caracas.
2002 One Gallery “Transparent”, Armando Reveron School, Caracas.
2001 “Between two worlds” Kleine Kunsrmeile, Romlinghoven, Bonn, Germany.
1990 Felix Gallery “workshop 90”, prints, Caracas.
1988 Felix Gallery, graphics, Caracas.
1989 Presentation of a Venezuelan artist, Luthansa Offices in Caracas.
1984 Gallery Ruchti, Kunstlerhaus, Bonn, Germany.
1982 HR Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
1982 Luise Romeleit Gallery, Colonia, Germany.
1980 Felix Gallery, prints and acrylics, Caracas.
1979 Club International, watercolors, Valencia.
1978 Gallery BANAP, prints and watercolors, Caracas.
1976 Gallery BANAP, prints, Caracas.
1975 Graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Hannover, Germany then established herself in Venezuela.
Gallery A. Casian, Acrylics and drawings, Caracas