Alise Medina

Alise Mediņa( born 1984) is a Latvian painter, living and working in Riga.
Painting is a form of her existence, often without any reason behind. “it is like singing in a shower, you don’t think why you do that, just do and that’s
it. Also being asked about her painting style, she answers: “It’s similar to the one’s voice- You have Your special sound, You probably can pretend having another voice, but not for long. It’s important to accept and improve Your voice by practice.

Alise is active in exhibiting her work for the last 10 years. Exhibitions
are the driving force behind her creativity and talent development – at least
twice a year Alise shows her recent work to public and it is the “deadline
that makes me move”. Each exhibition is supported by PR
activities, sending out press releases, resulting in media coverage from press to radio and TV. Alise’s art can be bought in major Riga’s galleries – Antonija,
Jēkabs, Birkenfelds and Pop-up gallery. Alise studied in
Jana Rozentāla art school and continued her studies in painting in Art Academy of Latvia. Besides oil painting Alise has studied ceramics, her mediums are porcelain and raku firing.
The other place Alise finds attractive for her art is Paris, where she
has been in ...

2012- 2019 Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of
Visual Plastic arts, Ceramics department, Master degree
2007- 2010 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting
Department, Master of Arts
2008- 2009 University of Porto, faculty of Fine Arts, Socrate Erasmus
students exchange programm
2003-2007 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting Department,
Bachelor of Arts
1996-2003 Janis Rozentals Art School, field of
specialisation-painting
1990-1996 Agenskalna gymnasium

Future Shows: solo exhibition in gallery “ Jekabs” Riga, Latvia