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In 1981 Galina Bleikh graduated from the Mukhina’s Academy of Arts and Design in Leningrad (MA).
In 1982-1987 she regularly participated in the non-conformist exhibitions of Leningrad Fellowship of Experimental Art (TEII), including one of the first non-conformist exhibitions abroad, 21 Artists from the Fellowship for Experimental Art Exhibition (Route One Gallery, California, USA, 1988).
Since 1988, Galina works in body art medium. In 1993, at the Russian-French Festival of Poetry, she was awarded the Vivrism is a Just Cause medal, instituted by V.Tolstoy (Paris), for her performance.
Since 1993, Galina Bleikh lives in Jerusalem. In 1996 she was awarded the grant of Israeli Ministry of Culture for six-month work at the International Art Center (Paris).
Since 1996, Galina, in collaboration with Julia Lagus, takes part in a number of exhibitions and festivals, under the collective nom de plume Antro Aum (installations, performances, video art). In 1996, they were awarded the diploma of The Actual Video Festival for their video.
At present, Galina works in the media of computer art, painting and video art.
In 2008, she was awarded the first prize at the art competition (among 18,000 entries), organized by Cellcom company.
Galina Bleikh participated in more than 40 solo and group exhibitions in Russia, Israel, USA, France, UK, Germany, and in several international festivals of performance art. Among them, the International Triennale of Contemporary Art (Osaka, Japan, 2001) and two Moscow International biennales of Contemporary Art (2005 and 2007).
Her works belong to the collections of the Museum of Non-Conformist Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), Aushra Museum (Vilnius, Lithuania), and to private collections in more than ten countries.


   

 
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