Benjamin Vasserman

Benjamin Vasserman (born June 11, 1949 in Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast, Russia in the family of an employee deported from Estonia) is an Estonian graphic artist and printmaker.
*He is the husband of Naima Neidre.

Education

In 1979, Vasserman graduated from the Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn.

Artistic career

*Began to exhibit in 1978
*Vasserman has been a freelance artist since 1990

Membership

*1989: Estonian Artists' Association
*1992: Association of Estonian Printmakers

olo exhibitions

1987 Tallinn Art Salon, Estonia; 1989 Cafe Viru, Moscow, Russia; Gallery Sammlung Villany, Brandenburg, Germany; 1990 Gallery Sininen Talo, Hämeenlinna, Finland; 1992 Gallery G, Tallinn, Estonia; Sylvia-Home, Lahti, Finland; 1993 Art Hall, Seinäjoki, Finland; 1993, 1995, 1998 Gallery Neuendorf, Memmingen, Germany; 1994 Gallery Munkinseudun, Helsinki, Finland; Gallery Katariina, Turku, Finland; 1996 Gallery Wanhan Galleria, Tampere, Finland; 1998 House of Holy Spirit, Randers, Denmark; La Galerie Passage, Tallinn, Estonia; 1999 Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia;2001 Gallery of Embassy of Estonia, Riga, Latvia; 2003 Gallery Haus, Tallinn, Estonia

International print exhibitions

1994, 1996, 1998, 2002 3rd, 4th, 5th & 7th International Engraving Biennial, Ourense, Spain; 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria; 1995 Mini-Print Triennial, Lahti, Finland; 1995, 2001 10th & 12th Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia; 1995, 2005 1st & 4th Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Japan; 1996 Graphica Creativa, 8th International Print Triennial, Jyväskylä, Finland; International Mini-Print Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan; 1996, 1998, 2001 2nd, 3rd International Biennial & 4th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Vilnius, Lithuania; 1996, 1999, 2002 9th, 10th & 11th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Łódź, Poland; 1997 International Print Exhibition, Portland, Oregon, USA; 22nd International Print Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia; S.N.A.P.'s International Printmaking Co-operative Exhibition, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Osaka Triennale 1997 - Print, 8th International Contemporary Art Competition, Japan; 1997, 1999 2nd & 3rd Malaysia Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Kuala Lumpur; 1997, 1999, 2001 1st, 2nd & 3rd International Mini-Print Biennial, Cluj, Romania; 1997, 1999, 2003 2nd, 3rd & 4th Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo-Giza-Alexandria; 1997, 2000, 2003 Triennale'97, Triennial 2000, Triennial 2003, International Print Triennial, Kraków, Poland; Intergrafia'97, Intergrafia 2000 & Intergrafia 2003, World Award Winners Gallery, Katowice & Niepołomice (2003), Poland; 1998 International Midi-Print Exhibition, Pärnu, Estonia; Agart World Print Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Consumentart'98, Triennial Cracow-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany; 1999 Premio Internationale Biella per l'Incisione, XIV edizione, Italy; 12th Norwegian International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad; 1999, 2002 4th & 5th Kochi International Print Triennial, Ino, Japan; 2000 2nd Mini-Graphic & Painting World-Wide Show "Pisa 2000", Italy; Mostra - Premio "Artisti Finalisti", Group Show at 4 Artists (finalists), Pisa, Italy; 1st CheJu International Print Arts Festival, Korea; International Print Exhibition "East meets West", Opole, Poland; International Print Triennial Cracow-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany; International Print Exhibition "Graphic Constellation - Szczecin 2000", Poland; 2000, 2003 3rd & 4th International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia; 2001 Biennale internationale d'estampe de Trois-Rivières, 2eme edition, Quebec, Canada; Triennial of One Hundred Cities, Dzierzoniow, Poland; 3rd Mini-Graphic & Painting World-Wide Show "ITART 2001", Pisa, Italy; International Print Exhibition "Continents - 2001" Wałbrzych, Poland; Exhibition of Prize Winners of the 3rd Biennial of Small Graphic Forms, Vilnius, Lithuania; "ITART 2001", Prize-Show for Finalists, Livorno, Italy; 5th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print Art - 2001, Bhopal, India; International Print Exhibition"Selection of Works from ITP - Kraków 2000", Graz, Austria; 2001, 2004 10th & 11th International Print & Drawing Biennial, Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan R.O.C.; 3rd & 4th International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria; 2002 7th International Biennial of Graphics of the Baltic Sea Countries, Kaliningrad, Russia; Korea International Print Arts Festival, ChangWon, Busan; 12th SPACE International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea; 2003 10th International Biennale of Small Forms & Ex-Libris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland; International Print and Drawing Exhibition "Interprint", Bangkok, Thailand; International Print Biennial in Beijing 2003, China; International Print Exhibition "Aquaforta Contra Cyfra", Opole, Poland; International Print Exhibition "Asia Print Adventure 2003", Sapporo, Japan; International Print Exhibition "Eurografik Kyiv 2003", Ukraine; 2004 International Print Triennial Cracow-Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; International Print Exhibition "Eurografik Moscow 2004", Russia; International Print Exhibition "Eurografik Leipzig 2004", Germany; International Print Exhibition "Eurografik Krynica 2004", Poland; Triennial of One Hundred Cities, Poznań, Poland; 4th Ural Print Triennial, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia; 2004, 2005 International Print Exhibition "MTG Kraków Pays a Visit to Hungary", Gyor, Budapest; 2005 4th International Small Engraving Exhibition, Cremona, Italy; International Small Engraving Salon 2005, Baia Mare, Romania; 2006 7eme Mondial de l'Estampe et de la Gravure Originale - Triennale de Chamalieres, France; 5th International Triennale Colour in Graphic Art: NOW!, Toruń, Poland; 2007 USM International Print Exhibition 2007, Penang, Malaysia, Hatyai, Thailand; European Masters of Modern Art 2007(EMMA 2007), Burgau, Austria; Artperiscope.com Second Internet Artwork Competition, Częstochowa, Poland; Penang International Art Festival 2007, Malaysia; Artoteque.com Online Global Art Annual ART NOW 2, London, UK; International Print Triennial - Kraków BIS 2007, Katowice, Poland; 4th International Engraving Biennial - Douro 2007, Alijo, Portugal; 9th International Biennial "The Masters of Drawing and Graphic Art", Györ, Hungary: 6th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Vilnius, Lithuania

Awards

1994, 1998 Honourable Mention - 3rd & 5th International Engraving Biennial, Ourense, Spain; 1995 Special Prize - 10th Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia; 1997 Special Prize - 9th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria; 1998 [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/vilnius.html Diploma] - 3rd International Biennial of Small Form Graphics, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2000, 2001 [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/pisa.html Diploma "Finalist"] - 2nd & 3rd Mini-Graphic & Painting World-Wide Show "Pisa 2000" & "ITART 2001", Pisa, Italy;2001 Diploma - 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria; 2001 [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/cluj.html Honorary Mention] - 3rd International Mini-Print Biennial, Cluj, Romania; 2001 Printmaker of Year 2001 - Annual Prize of Estonian Printmaking; 2003 [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/ostrow.html Second Prize] - 10th International Biennale of Small Forms & Ex-Libris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland; 2003 [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/beijing.html Gold Prize] - International Print Biennial in Beijing, China;2007 [http://www.artperiscope.com/index.php?page=competition&show=wyroznione&id=608 First Prize] - Arteriscope.com 2nd Internet Artwork Competition, Częstochowa, Poland; [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/gyor.html Honourable Mention] - 9th International Biennial "The Masters of Drawing and Graphic Arts", Györ, Hungary; [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/vilnius2.html Second Prize] - 6th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Vilnius, Lithuania; [http://benart.bravehost.com/awPic/london.html Honorable Award] - ARTOTEQUE's Online Global Art Annual2 ART NOW 2007, London, UK

Works in collections

Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn; International Print Triennial Society, Cracow, Poland; National Museum, Cracow, Poland; Centre of International Cultural Exchange, Beijing, China; Institute of Art Association of Academic Culture, Cracow, Poland; Association Mouvement Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France; Amicidell'Arte - Famiglia Artistica, Cremona, Italy; International Centre of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egypt; Collection of Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Central Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan; Herman Hebler Graphic Art Collection, Fredrikstad, Norway; Art Museum of M.V.Nesterov, Ufa, Russia; City Art Gallery, Łódź, Poland; Contemporary Graphic Fund, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Graphic Centre Collection, Vilnius, Lithuania; Visual Arts and Technology Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria; Florean Museum, Baia Mare, Romania; Kaleva Collection, Oulu, Finland; University of Western Sydney, Australia; Caixa Ourense, Ourense, Spain; Associazione Premio Internationale Biella per l'Incisione, Italy; Randers Kunstforening, Denmark; Arhus Amt, Denmark; Several Estonian (State) Institutions; Private Collections in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Russia, USA, Australia etc.

External links

* [http://benart.bravehost.com Benjamin Vasserman]
* [http://www.overart.com/cgi-bin/overart.cgi?cd=01-01-0008&do=01 OverArt: Benjamin Vasserman]
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* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Benjamin+Vasserman/13206.html The Saatchi Gallery: Benjamin Vasserman]
* [http://benno.artremains.com/Home/Default.aspx ArtRemains: Benjamin Vasserman]

ee also

*List of Estonians
*June 11
*1949