postcard of the 31st Diamond Pepper Festival
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Artist
Biography
Julian Pena Pai - Romania
Born in April 14, 1948 in Giurgiu, lives and works in Ploiesti.
The School of Fine Arts and Technical College of Architecture.
He started drawing in 1973 in URZICA Humour Magazine.
He published over 4000 cartoons in magazines and newspapers in Romania and other countries.
He illustrated 7 humour books. Since 1991 he is a free lancer and worked for : OPINIA PUBLICA, ZIARUL FINANCIAR, SOCUL COTIDIAN, CUGET LIBER, JURNALUL DE PRAHOVA, GAZETA PRAHOVEI, PRAHOVA, MONITORUL and VIATA PRAHOVEI daily newspapers.
Since 2007 until 2010 he is cartoonist editorialist at TELEGRAFUL DE PRAHOVA daily newspaper and cartoonist for PLAI CU BOI Magazine and REBUS BIS Magazine.
Cartoonist of the Year 2002 in Romania.
Since 1993 at ECHINOX publishing house, art director.
Personal exhibitions:
Ploiesti 1980, 1986, 1988, 1993, Giurgiu 1983, 1991, Bucharest 1984, 2006, Fredrikstad 1990(Norway), Tolentino 2001(Italy), and Tehran 2004 (Iran).
Since 1979 he participated to some international exhibitions in Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey, Canada, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Macedonia, Belgium, Holland, Japan, France, Cuba, Poland, Germany, Brasil, Mexic, Spain, Norway, Indonesia,U.K., Russia, Ukraina, Korea, Iran, Taiwan, Australia, Argentina, Colombia, Slovakia, Albania, Slovenia, Portugal, Egypt, Cehia, Greece, USA, U.A. Emirates, China, Austria, Sweden, Syria,Cyprus, India and Romania (over 400 participations at international exhibitions).
AWARDS:90 international prizes,23 national prizes
He was member of the international jury at Anglet 1986 (France), Istanbul N.Hodja1997 (Turkey), Beijing2004 (China), Tabriz2004 (Iran), Sofia 2007 (Bulgaria), Aydin Dogan 2007 (Turkey), AzCartoon 2007 (Azerbaijan), Don Quichotte 2008 (Germany), CITY Complexities 2008 (Iran), SyriaCartoon 2008 (Syria) , Azercartoon 2009 (Azerbaijan) and many other.
