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Avo Keerend

Avo Keerend (1920) has been a remarkably stable and productive artist throughout decades. Having worked with various techniques and themes, he now prefers geometrical abstractionism with big colorful strained objects “using their own sovereign trajectories” as noted by a art historian. All elements co-function in clearly built construction and leave a harmonious impression.


Born: 18 December 1920 in Tallinn, Estonia

Education: 1936-1943 Tallinn State College of Arts and Crafts
1946-1949 Art Universities in Tallinn and Tartu

At present: freelance artist

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2001 Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia
1998 Estonian National Library, Estonia
1996 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1995 Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia
1993, 1996 Raisio, Finland
1993 Lahti, Finland
1990 Hyvinkää, Finland
1989 Porvoo, Finland
1980 Tartu Art House, Estonia
1971 Tampere, Finland
1971, 1987, 1991 Helsinki, Finland
1968 Parchim, Germany
1967 Moscow, Russia
1967, 1979 Pärnu Museum, Estonia
1966 Järva Museum, Estonia
1966, 1999 Rakvere Museum, Estonia
1965, 1976, 1986, 1995 Tallinn Art Salon/Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia
1970, 1990 Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
1969, 1979 Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn

Selected International Group Exhibitions:
2001 Graphic Constellation - Szczecin 2000, Poland
2000 Contemporary Estonian Prints, Kavaleridze Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
2000 3rd Bitola International Triennial of Graphic, Bitola, Macedonia
1999 Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998 Triennial Krakow-Nürnberg'98, Poland, Germany
1998 V Graphic Art Biennial, Kaliningrad, Russia
1997 Prize Winners of MTG'97, Czestochowa, Poland
1997 Mini Triennial-Continents, Jelema Góra, Poland
1997 Triennial 100 Cities
1997 Color in Graphic Art, 2nd Triennial, Torun, Poland
1995 Consumenta'95, Nürnberg, Germany
1995 Graphic Constellation, Graz, Austria
1995, 1996, 1998 Art Cologne, Germany
1995 Small Graphic Exhibition, Lahti, Finland
1994 Intergrafia'94 World Award Winners Gallery, Katowice, Poland
1993 1st Print Biennial, Maastricht, Netherlands
1993 Art Exhibition of Baltic Countries, Falun, Sweden
1992, 1995, 1999 Norwegian International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, Norway
1992 Graphic Art Triennial, Stockholm, Sweden
1991, 1992 Annual Exhibition of Small Graphic, Napa, California
1991, 1994, 1996 Mini-Print Exhibition, Fredrikstad, Norway
1991, 1994, 1997, 2000 Graphic Art Triennial Krakow, Poland
1991 SAGA, Paris, France
1990 Graphic Art Exhibition, Genova, Italy
1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997 Independent Exhibition of Graphic Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1989 5th Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
1989 L'Europe des Graveurs, Grenoble, France
1988 Intergrafia'88, Katowice, Poland
1988 12th Graphic Art Biennial, Krakow, Poland
1988 5th European Graphic Art Biennial, Heidelberg, Germany
1987 Intergraphic'87, Berlin, Germany
1980 Exhibition of Graphic Design, Brno, Czechoslovakia
1976 Exhibition of Wood Engravings, Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia
1976, 1989 Norwegian Print Biennial, Fredrikstad, Norway
1972 2nd Graphic Art Exhibition, Frechen
1971 Exhibition of Book Design, Leipzig, Germany
1969, 1971, 1975, 1977 Biennial of Book Plates, Malbork, Poland
1969, 1970 Graphic Art Exhibition, Catania, Italy
1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998 Tallinn Graphic Art Triennial, Estonia
1968 Exhibition of Book Plates, Como, Italy
1968 2nd Biennial of Engravings, Pistoia, Italy
1967, 1971, 1990 Premio Internazionale Biella, Italy
1967, 1973, 1989 7th, 10th, 18th Ljubljana Biennial, Yugoslavia
1961, 1962 Art Exhibition of Baltic Countries, Rostock, Germany
1959 Baltic Sea in Graphic Art, Warsaw, Poland
1958 Art Exhibition of Socialist Countries, Moscow, Russia
1955-1962, 1966-1968, 1970, 1975 Art Exhibition, Moscow, Russia

Selected Awards:
2001 Eduard Wiiralt Prize
1999 Grand Prix at J.Gielniak Graphic Art Competition, Poland
1991 Purchase Award at Miniprint Exhibition in Napa, California
1991 Special Prize at Krakow Print Triennial, Poland
1988 Special Prize at Krakow Print Biennial, Poland
1988 Prize of the Ministry of Culture Competition
1988 Estonian Artists Union's Annual Prize for Best Graphic Art
1987 The Kristjan Raud Annual Art Prize For Graphic Art
1987 Diploma at Riga Miniprint Triennial, Latvia
1986 Grand Prix at Tallinn Print Triennial
1984 Diploma and Prize at Vilnius Book Design Triennial, Lithuania
1983 State Prize for Book Illustrations
1980 Prize of the Ministry of Culture Competition
1978 Estonian Artists Union's Annual Prize for Best Graphic Art
1977 Honorary Medal at Book Plates Biennial in Malbork, Poland
1977 Prize of the Ministry of Culture Competition
1975 Estonian Artists Union's Annual Prize for Best Graphic Art
1974 Diploma at Tallinn Print Triennial
1971 Special Prize at Tallinn Print Triennial
1970 Prize of the Ministry of Culture
1969 Silver Medal at Book Plates Biennial in Malbork, Poland
1968 Diploma at Tallinn Print Triennial
1964 Prize of the Ministry of Culture Competition
1953 Prize of the Ministry of Culture Competition

Collections:
Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn
Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Estonian History Museum, Tallinn
Estonian National Library, Tallinn
Tretjakow Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Latvian Art Museum
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Skopje Art Museum, Macedonia
Wroclaw National Museum, Poland
Turku University, Finland
Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
Foundation of Eero Rantanen, Finland