Alexandre Nodopaka: Conceived in Kiev, Ukraine. First exhibition 1940 Vladivostok, Russia. First finger paintings Innsbruck, Austria. Studied tongue-in-cheek at the Ecole des Beaux Arts Casablanca, Morocco. Now in USA full time author, artist, art instructor, art judge and critic. 

EDUCATION: Ecole des Beaux Arts at Casablanca, Morocco then mostly self taught besides having a Bachelor in Art & MFA Master in Fine Art.

PUBLICATIONS: * Peninsula Magazine * Pacific Guest Magazine * Peninsula Guest Magazine * Livermore Times * Pleasanton Times * Dublin Independent * Menlo Park Recorder * California Today San Jose Mercury * Menlo Park Almanac * Laguna Beach Gazette * Orange County Register *

OTHER MEDIA: * Featured on PBS Television 1981 * Featured on Palo Alto Community Television Channel 1998, California * Album Cover rock musical band NETHERWORLD * Guest speaker Brooks Camera San Francisco * Juried Art Judge * Self-appointed Art Critic *

GROUP AND ONE MAN SHOWS: * Art galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, California * Art shows and Festivals, USA *Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California* Menlo Park Art Commission, California 1997* Menlo Park Library: Leather Book Bindings 2000* Laguna Beach Art Exhibit 2002, 2nd Place Painting, Mixed Media* Laguna Beach Art Exhibit 2003, 1st Prize Mixed Media & Honorable Mention, Photography*

Artistic Prizes: Local & National 1st, 2nd & Honorable prizes in photography, painting, sculpture, writing.


www.vayavya.in (Art editor)

I am primarily a visual artist with Sculpture, Digital Art, Multi-dimensional Painting & I write when I am high on Tequila Rum Sunrise.