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©2010 Petra Varl
In my studio, in Rožna dolina, Ljubljana, 2002, photo by Tihomir Pinter
BIOGRAPHY
Petra Varl was born in 1965 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 1997 she obtained a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Petra Varl works as a visual artist in the media of drawing, graphic arts, painting, illustration and installations. She has shown her work in numerous independent and group shows, including the Sao Paolo Biennial (1996, Sao Paolo), Museum Mudzarnok (1996, Budapest), MUMOK (2009, Vienna), National Gallery Zaceta (2010, Warsaw). Since the year 2000 she has been teaching drawing and graphic arts at the Fine Arts Department of the Teacher’s College of the University of Maribor. She lives and works in Ljubljana and Maribor.