Ivanco Talevski

M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania

B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art

Ivanco Talevski (b.1983, Bitola, Macedonia; lives between Philadelphia and Bitola) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator.  Working with drawing, print, painting, sculpture, and collaborative strategies, the subjects in his work are generated by the notion of being in two places at once, Philadelphia in the US and Bitola in Macedonia, through which he evokes questions around memory, belonging, nostalgia, contested borders, and histories, and their persistence and erasure,  by actively translating between multiple languages and cultural signifiers, both visual and verbal. Talevski has had solo exhibitions at The National Gallery of Macedonia in Skopje; The Print Center in Philadelphia; MC Gallery in New York City; Napoleon (presently Pink Noise) and Cindy Ettinger Studio in Philadelphia, Prima Center Berlin in Germany, KIC Gallery in Skopje,  The Museum and Institute of Bitola in Macedonia and The People’s Theater in Gevgelija in Macedonia. His work has been in group exhibitions at the Print Center in New York City, Guanlan Print Biennial in China; Sakima Museum of Art, Okinawa, and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, both in Japan; International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland; Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. He has numerous awards including a Pollock Krasner Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, and a Guanlan International Print Prize.