TjašA Iris

is a Slovenian-born, Southeast Asia based international emerging artist, known for her large colorful photographs and paintings painted with bright colors, vivid atmospheres of gardens with lush vegetation and bright light. Color is the main concern in her painting, exploring its emotional and expressive qualities. She is known as colorist with her roots in European expressionism.

She earned her M.F.A. in Painting from Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands in 1995.

In the first part of her career she lived and worked in Florence, Venice, Paris, Morocco, California and Slovenia.
In the last 13 years she has been very much attracted by explosive energy of the South-East Asia. Followed by stays in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali, Indonesia, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, Bokeo and Vientiane, Laos and Chiang Mai, Koh Phangan Island and Bangkok, Thailand.
She recently had a solo exhibition at La Fenice Art Gallery in Hong Kong. Her other important exhibitions took place at: BACC Bangkok Arts & Culture Center in the month of August 2017, Jamjuree Art Gallery in Bangkok, an Art Museum of Chulalongkorn University in 2014, at CMU Art Museum in Chaing Mai in 2013, at The Substation Art Center in Singapore in 2012, UCSI University Kuala ...

1993 – 1995 GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS, M.A. Academie Minerva (Audio Visual Art – Painting)
1994 MILANO/VENICE, ITALY, Erasmus Student at Academia Nuova, Milano and Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice (Painting)
1992 STOKE–ON–TRENT, U.K. Exchange student at Staffordshire Polytecnic. (Photography)
1990 – 1992 FLORENCE, ITALY, B.A. International School of Fine Arts FORTMAN STUDIOS (Photography, Color Theory, Painting)

selected personal exhibitions
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2019-20 HONG KONG, CHINA, "10 Monsoons in Southeast Asia", La Fenice Art Gallery
2018 BANGKOK, THAILAND Austrian Embassy, “Day & Night
2017 BANGKOK, THAILAND, “Gardens of Eden”, at BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Center.
2015 CHIANG MAI, THAILAND, “Gardens of Eden”, at 137 Pillar House Gallery.
2013-2014 BANGKOK, THAILAND, “Gardens of Eden”, Jamjuree Art Gallery 26. Dec. – 16 Jan. *
2013 CHIANG MAI, THAILAND, “Gardens of Eden”, Chiang Mai CMU Art Museum. 8 – 30 Nov. *
2012 SINGAPORE, “The Substation” Contemporary Art Center, 22 May – 2 June 2012.
2011 BANGKOK, THAILAND, “Garden of Eden”, Neilson Hays Rotunda Gallery.
2011 KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, UCSI Kuala Lumpur University. *
2010 UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA, Wina Gallery. (two women show)
2010 SINGAPORE, AAF – The Affordable Art Fair Singapore, E7. *
2010 SINGAPORE, As NEW FIND at ART SINGAPORE 2010. *
2010 SINGAPORE, Instinc Art Gallery. *
2009 KOPER, SLOVENIA, Gallery Meduza, Coastal Galleries Piran. *
2005 BRANIK, SLOVENIA, Villa Flora. Open Studio "PARIS PAINTINGS".
2005 PARIS, FRANCE Two man show Tjaša Demšar and Diek Grobler (South Africa), Cite´Internationale des Arts.
2003 ONLINE, U.S.A., d’A...