education:
2013 – 2016 Taik, Master in Photography, University of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland
2006 – 2008 The arts institute at Bournemouth, BA in Photography
works in collections:
Victoria and Albert museum
Geste Paris
Deutsche Börse
solo exhibitions:
2022 “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”, BZHPhoto, Loguivy de la Mer, France
2021 “Roll, roll morning dew”, ISSP Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2018 “My hand is warmer than the Sun”, Careva contemporary, Riga, Latvia
2018 “Somewher on disappearing path”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, US
2017 “Sword Lilies” Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2017 “Sword Lilies” Kulturbank, Kjollerfjord, Norway
2017 “Sword Lilies” Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2016 "Journey to the Nowhere" Iveta Vaivode and Arturs Rinkis, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia
2015 and Emanuel Mathias, Goethe Institute Mexico, Mexico
2015 "Somewher on disappearing path", CO Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014 "Somewher on disappearing path", Riga Photomonth 2014, Riga, Latvia
2011 “OPERA”, Galerija 21, Riga
2010 “Terminus – Iveta Vaivode & Alexander Gronsky”, Fotokvartals gallery, Riga
group exhibitions:
2021 “Creeper approaches the player and explodes”, Riga Photo Month, Latvia
2021 “Art Spa”, Cesis, Latvia
2019 “The Truth in Disquise”, Geste Paris, France
2019 “FotoTallinn Art Fair”, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 “Circuit”, Helsinki, Finland
2017 “Fotofestiwal Lodz, 2017”, Lodz, Poland
2015 "Latvian Landscape", Šiauliai Art Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania
2015 Critical Mass, Lishui International Photography Festival, China
2015 Daniel Seiffert and Iveta Vaivode " Retracing Memory", Month of Photography Minsk, CECH Art Space, Minsk, Belarussia
2015 Verzasca Foto Festival, Sonogno, Switzerland
2015 "Ex & Post - Eastern Europe under the lens", Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, Australia
2015 "Photo Festival Gent - 80 days of Summer ", Historische Huizen Gent, Gent, Belgium
2015 "Latvian Landscape" Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2014 4th Edition Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2014 19th edition of Voices Off Festival, Arles, France
2014 "C/O Talents 2013" Cube, Deutsche Borse AG, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 4th Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism, Hannover, Germany
2009 “Zeitgeist and the atmosphere of a place”, Riga Art Space, Latvia
2008 “Is the medium the message?“, Andrejsala, Latvia
2008 “Freshfaced and wildeyed” – new graduates show, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
2007 Kaunas Photo07, Kaunas, Lithuania
2007 Le Salon Jeune Création Européenne
2007 Teatre de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
2007 “ellipsis” Fda show, London, UK
2007 “AOP Student Awards”, AOP Gallery, London, UK
selected bibliography:
Latvian Landscape, published by KultKom, Riga, Latvia, 2015
C/O Berlin Talents 31: Iveta Vaivode & Jule Hillgärtner, Somewhere on a disappearing path, Kehrer, German/English, 2014
Latvijas Fotogrāfijas gadagrāmata, September, 2013, Latvia
Purvitis Prize, 2012, Riga, Latvia
awards, grants:
2014 Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50, finalist
2014 CDS Documentary Essay Prize for Photography, winner
2014 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, shortlisted
2014 Sony World Photography Awards, shortlisted for Lifestyle category
2013 Emerging photographers fund, runner up, Burn Magazine
2013 c/o Berlin Talents awards, Berlin
2008 “Nikon Discovery Awards 2008”, London, UK
2008 “PDN Photography Annual 2008”, New York