Robert Dandarov was born in Strumica, Macedonia in 1959. After graduating from the School of Applied Arts in Skopje, he was offered a scholarship to the American Academy of Art in Chicago. From there he was invited to attend the National Academy of Design in New York City, where he was also awarded a scholarship, from where he graduated in 1981.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Dandarov participated in numerous one man and group shows in the U.S. and Europe, including various shows in Germany, Holland and Belgium.
In 1999 he moved to the Dominican Republic and spent two years as an artist in residence and teacher of painting at Altos de Chavon School of Design, affiliated with the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
In 2001, Dandarov spent a year in Antwerp, Belgium studying the techniques of the seventeenth century Flemish painters and preparing a series of works for a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia.
Robert Dandarov currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art,
Skopje, Macedonia
2001 Casa de Escritor, Santo Domingo,
D.R.
1999 Gallery Nouveau, Santo Domingo,
D.R.
1998 Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC
1997 Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC
1996 Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC
1994 Galerie Laegveld, Hasselt,
Belgium
1993 Hugieia Art Gallery, Tongeren,
Belgium
1992 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Koln,
Germany
1992 Peter Baumler Gallery, Regensburg,
Germany
1991 Hugieia Art Gallery, Brugge,
Belgium
1990 Hugieia Art Gallery, Tongeren,
Belgium
1989 Yava Gallery, "Myths,
Legends & Saints", NYC
1983 Yava Gallery, NYC
Group
2004 Gallery MC, NYC
1999 The Gallery of Altos de Chavon
Foundation, La Romana, D.R.
1997 Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC
1996 Palmer Museum, Springfield,
NJ.
1996 Hugieia Art Gallery, Tongeren,
Belgium
1995 Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC
1994 Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown
University, Pennsylvania
1993 Gallery Bolhagen, Worpswede,
Germany
1993 First International Print
Biennial, Maastricht, Holland
1992 Butler Institute of Art,
Youngstown, Ohio
1992 Olaf Clasen Gallery, NYC
1992 Gallery Goetz, Stuttgart,
Germany
1992 Gallery Ruf, Munich, Germany
1992 Galerie Kunst & Kabinet,
Koln, Germany
1991 Galerie Baumler, "Made
in Usa", Regensburg, Germany
1990 Drawing Center "Selection
49", NYC
1989 Alternative Museum, "Dia
de los muertos", NYC
1987 Alternative Museum, "Repulsion-Aesthetics
of the Grotesque", NYC
1985 Alternative Museum, "Collaborations",
NYC
1985 Graphics Collective, "Le
Retour De La Miniature", Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1984 Equitable Gallery, NYC
1982 Yava Gallery, NYC
Education:
1981-83 National Academy of Design,
New York City
1976-78 American Academy of Art,
Chicago
1974-76 School of Applied Art,
Skopje, Macedonia
Work experience:
Teaching painting, university
level at the School of Design, Altos de Chavon,
Dominican Republic - school affiliated with Parsons
School of Design, NYC