Ināra Petrusēviča

Ināra Petrusēviča (also known under Russian-language spelling Inara Petrusevich, ; born November 17, 1969, Daugavpils) is a Latvian artist.

Biography

Ināra Petrusēviča was born to the family of construction workers, with her mother being Hero of Socialist Labor, with 3 medals. She remembers her grand-grandparent was a large landowner, who split his land among his many children and her grandmother's name was Maria Oshmyansky. The competition for the entrance to the academy was high, and she managed to enter there only on the 3rd attempt, however the tuition fee was high and so she returned home, married, and gave birth to son Nikita.

In early 1990s she worked in the association of young artists "Krasts", where she had her first professional exhibition. (Her first student exhibition was at the Daugavpils Musical College in 1986, her first exhibition abroad was in Sweden at Gotland in 1992.) With the help of artist Leonid Baulin (Леонид Баулин) she got a large art studio. In the newly independent Latvia, in mid-90s, art galleries started to open, and her works began to sell. Since 1998 she had her works in the Lejre Art Gallery (Galleri Gl. Lejre), Lejre, Denmark. she had over 10 solo exhibitions in Latvia and elsewhere, including Riga, Daugavpils, Denmark, Vitebsk and Vilnius.

Her paintings are on a permanent exhibition at Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art, Belarus and Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils.