Born October 4, 1948 in Dundaga/Latvia
1975 graduated from Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Monumental Painting.
Since 1978 is a member of Latvia Artists’ Union.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2012
"Flashback", Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia 2009
"City Tour", Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
2008
"The same landscape", Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
2006
"Variation on a theme", Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
2005
"A diary of a passer by", Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
2004
"Visible World", Valsts Mākslas muzejs, Rīga / Latvija*
2003
"One summer", Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
2001
Games, Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
2000
Visible World, Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
1999
Night Conversations, Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
1998
The Landscape Without Birds, Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
1997
The Sound of Silence, Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
1995
Sentimental Journey, Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
1989
Solo exhibition, Gallery Ermitage, West Berlin/Germany
1982
An exhibition together with Miervaldis Polis, Art Museum of Kadriorg, Tallinn/Estonia
Selected group exhibitions:
2011
Thickspace. Works from Dr.Guntis Belēvičs Collections. National Museum of Art / Arsenals, Riga / Latvia
Hybrid spaceship. National Museum of Art / Arsenals, Riga / Latvia
2010
14th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
The 2009-10 Sovereign European Art Prize exhibition, London / UK
2009
13th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
Sotheby’s 9th June exhibition-sale London /Great Britain (project by Riga Gallery)
Artist. Portrait. Self-portrait, Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga / Latvia
2008
12th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
2006
10th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
2002
Witnesses of an Age, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
Latvian Art. 20th Century, Zwolle City Museum, Zwolle / Netherlands
Baltics. Non-Conformism and Modernist Art of the Soviet Era, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunwick / USA
2001
Interim, Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga/Latvia
Exhibition of Latvian Art., Kopavogura Art Museum, Kopavogura/Iceland
2000
Latvian Painting. 1945-1985 Plus, State Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
Exhibition and conference “Art in Latvia. 1940-1999”, Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga/Latvia
1998
2nd All-Latvian Art Exhibitions, Latvian National Museum of Art, Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga / Latvia
1997
Contemporary Latvian Art, Grande Salle de l'Aubette, Strasbourg / France
1996
Les Journèes Baltes, UNESCO Exhibition Hall, Paris/France
1994
1st Annual Exhibition “ZOOM Factor” of the Soros Centre of Contemporary Art – Riga, Exhibition Hall Latvija, Riga / Latvia
1990
1nd All-Latvian Art Exhibitions, Latvian National Museum of Art, Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga / Latvia
1989
Express-Avantgarde Gallery, Vienna/Austria
Latvian Painting Exhibition, Seoul/Korea
Contemporary Soviet Painters from Riga, Ed.Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York/USA
Lattische Kunst heute, Majakovski Gallery, West Berlin/Germany
New Art from the Soviet Union and Bolgari, International Images Ltd., Dallas/USA
1984
Nature. Environment. Man, St. Peter’s Church, Riga / Latvia
Public
Collections: Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga/Latvia
Collection of Latvia Artists’ Union, Riga/Latvia
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow / Russia
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey / USA
ArtistCatalogues: LĪGA PURMALE. Magischer
Realismus. Riga: Jāņa sēta, 1989
LĪGA PURMALE. VISIBLE WORLD. Riga: Riga Gallery, 2004
LĪGA PURMALE. DIARY OF
A PASSER-BY. Riga: Riga
Gallery, 2005
Selected Editions: Masterpieces of Latvian
Painting. Rīga : Liesma, 1988.
Zoom. Rīga : Sorosa Mūsdienu mākslas centrs, 1994.
Nonconformist art The Soviet experience, 1956-1986 : The Norton a.
Nancy Dodge collection / The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers, The
State Univ. of New Jersey; gen.ed. Alla Rosenfeld a. Norton T. Dodge – London :
Thames a. Hudson; Rutgers : Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, cop. 1995. - 360
p. : ill.
Traumane, Māra. Hiperreālismam tuvās parādības Latvijā,
1970-1990. – Rīga : Doma, 2000.
Repše, Gundega. Sieviete miglā. Līga Purmale. – Rīga :
Jumava, 2001.
Glezniecība. Laikmeta liecinieki : 20.gs. 60., 70. un 80.gadi :
Latvijas Mākslinieku savienības mākslas darbu kolekcija. Rīga : LMS, 2002.
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