Lilya Pavlovic-Dear

Lilya Pavlovic Dear (born 30 May 1947) is a French-American painter, print-maker, photographer, and video artist. She has participated in more than 200 group shows and 60 solo shows.

Life and education Dear was born on 30 May 1947 in Topola-Oplenac, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). She graduated in 1970 with a B.A. in Fresco, Painting and Mosaic at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. She obtained a scholarship from the British Council and studied and graduated in Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 1973. In 1974 she moved to Los Angeles where she exhibited and taught at UCLA from 1974 to 1977. maps of the world, Marco Polo on the Silk Road, angels, and water. For the last 50 years, nature and ecology have always been present and have oriented her work.

The art critic Pierre Rouve said about her show in Bradford University: "She portrays the unspoken and the unspeakable". It is listed in several libraries: American Museum of Natural History; National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum; The British Library, St. Pancras; Worcester Art Museum, Library of Congress; New York Public Library; Bibliothèque Marciana, Venice. For her book, she received the Grand European Prize Botticelli in 2008.

Since 2019, she has been a contributing expert to the Silk Sustainable Development Institution, a Washington D.C.-based thinktank.

Personal life Dear married Richard Hamilton Bryarlie Dear Junior in 1975. They have three daughters: Natasha, Katarina and Alexandra. Since the 1980s, she has been working and living between France and the United States.

Exhibitions Dear has exhibitions in the United States, Europe and China. Some of her most important shows took place at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice during the 56th Venice Biennale, Museum of Shanxi province in Xi'An, and Museum of Modern Art in Madrid. She is featured in multiple collections (public and private), such as Los Angeles County Museum, U.S.A Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, France, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria, and Museum of Art of Shanxi province in Xi'An, China. Fondation Paul Ricard, Île de Bendor (France), 2011 Parish Gallery, Washington D.C., 2011 Fondation Taylor, Paris, 2011 European Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2013 Museum of Art of Shanxi province, Xi'An, 2014 Museum of Modern Art, Madrid Dix Ans d'Acquisitions, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris Art Bank, Washington D.C.

Pavlovic Dear is also listed in le Dictionnaire d'Art Bénézit, la Cotation d'Art Drouot, and Dictionnaire d'Art Akoun. Médaille d'Argent dans la catégorie des Arts, Le Mérite et Dévouement Français, 1998 European Arts Prize, Léopold Senghor, 2007