A PORTRAIT OF VLAD TZEPESH THE THIRD DRACULYA Painting

Neno Belchev was born in 1971 in Varna, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Varna. He graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Belchev works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture, new media and independent curator. Neno has participated in a wide range of solo and group, national and international exhibitions. He has made one full-length movie (2016), four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from international video and film festivals in Italy, Malaysia, India, Romania, the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain and Austria, as well as residency-grants in España, the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France, Portugal and Bulgaria. Among his most important international participations are: EAT: International exhibition, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA); XXVIIth CEC ARTSLINK FELLOWSHIP AWARD in KALA Art Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA / 2014); IN-SONORA VIII: at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFIA (Madrid, SPAIN; 2014); EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall (Hong Kong, HONG KONG / 2013); Solo exhibition MAYATNIK (PENDULUM) at National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA / 2011); SANCTIONED ARRAY – international video exhibition at White Box Gallery (New York, USA / 2010); "COMMERCIAL" ART VIDEO – international video exhibition at Apexart (New York, USA / 2010); WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BODY? Solo exhibition during the International Art Residency 2009 at OCAT, He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, CHINA / 2009); Wichita Falls Museum (Texas, USA / 2009); DEPO Tutun Deposi (Istanbul, TURKEY / 2009); Today Art Museum (Beijing, CHINA / 2008); Moerenuma Koen Hidamari Museum (Sapporo, JAPAN / 2007) and many others. His works are possession of the He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), SAMCA – Sofia Museum for Contemporary Art (Sofia, Bulgaria), ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA); Varna City Gallery (Varna, Bulgaria), private collections in USA, the Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada, Spain, Ukraine and more. Neno Belchev is one of the founders of the Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria.