Svilen Blazhev, born 1953, Kustendil, Bulgaria
Graduated in Art High School, Sofia 1972
Graduated Fine Arts Academy Sofia with a degree in mural painting 1980
Memer of The Union of Bulgarian Artists 1980-2000
Paticipated in over 200 exhibitions in Europe,Asia and North America

Selected exhibitions:
1983 Autumn Exhibitions, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1984 Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
1985 AMH Rakovski 108 Gallery, Sofia
1985 PIT Gallery, Vienna
1987 Zaharias Gallery, Limassol
1988 Bucharest
1989 Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
1992 Dosev Gallery, Sofia
1995 Kunsthalle, Zug
1995 Apollonia festival, Sozopol, Bulgaria
1995 Handelskammer, Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz,
1999 National Gallery of Fine Arts, Sofia
2001 Alexander Gallery, Sofia
2005 Fox Gallery, Hamburg
2006 New London, Connecticut, USA
2008 Georges Papazoff Gallery, Plovdiv
2011 Sredetz Gallery, Sofia
2013 Sklada Gallery, Sofia

Award-winner of:
Award for Painting “Ilia Bejkov” 1984
Award for Fine Art “Zlatyu Boyadzhiev” 1987
Award of the International Triennale of Fine Art 1988
Award “Impressia” 2006

His works are part of national and private collections.
National Gallery of Fine Arts, Bulgaria; Municipal Art Gallery Sofia; Art Gallery Plovdiv; Art Gallery Sliven; Art Gallery Dobrich; Art Gallery Montana; Art Gallery Ruse; Art Gallery Lovech
Pushkin Museum, Moskow; Ludwig Collection Cologne; Bronda Collection, Helsinki, Giulio Andreotti Collection, Rome; Gunter Verheugen Brussels; Art Center Hugo Voeten, Belgium; Art Griffin Foundation, USA; Kostas Foundation, Washington