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(1936–2022)
Jüri Arrak, a living classic of Estonian art graduated from the Estonian National Institute of Art in 1966 with a degree in metalworking. Arrak has worked in many mediums, but is best known as a graphic artist and painter. Jüri Arrak whose surreal and socially sensitive mythological world has been unmistakably recognizable over the years, belonged to ANK '64, a community of freelance artists who ignored the canon of social realism and moved to the rhythm of Western art innovations. In 1969 he became a member of the Estonian Artists' Union. Arrak has won the Kristjan Raud Art Prize (1990), the Estonian Cultural Foundation Annual Award (1996), the Konrad Mägi Medal (1997), the Estonian Artists' Union annual painting award twice and awards from various painting and graphics festivals. In 1999 he was elected one of the 10 most important artists within the Hundred Greats of the Century. Arrak's works can be found in the Estonian Art Museum, Tartu Art Museum, Tallinn Art Hall, many prestigious US art collections (including the White House and MoMA), several European museums and countless private collections.
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1966 graduated from the Estonian State Art Institute in the speciality of metal ornaments
1967-1968 worked as an artist in the Tallinn Metal Products' factory
1969 member of the Estonian Artists' Association, from that on a freelance artist
1972-1973 chairman of the graphics section of the Estonian Artists' Association
1982-1987 chairman of the painting section of the Estonian Artists' Association
1996-1997 professor of fine arts of the Tartu University
Has participated at the exhibitions of the Estonian figurative arts since 1964, at the international exhibitions since 1969.
ISIKNÄITUSED
1970 Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn
1973 Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn
Artists' House, Kaunas
1974 Historical museum, Szolnok, Hungary
Ujpesti Mini Gallery, Budapest
Historical museum, Hödmesövasarhely, Hungary
1975 Theatre "Endla", Pärnu
1977 Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn
1981 Cinema House, Tallinn
1982 Art Museum, Tartu
Bookshop "Vaga", Vilnius
1983 Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn
Theatre "Endla", Pärnu
Local Lore Museum, Pärnu
1984 Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
1985 Cinema House, Riga
A.H.Tammsaare House Museum, Tallinn
International Images Ltd Gallery, Sewickley, USA
1986 Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn
1987 International Images Ltd Gallery, Sewickley, USA
1988 Art Museum, Kohtla- Järve
Artists' House, Tartu
1989 Tartu College, Toronto, Kanada
Kaleva Gallery, Oulu, Finland
1990 City Library, Kotka, Finland
1991 Estonian Art Fund Gallery, Helsinki
Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
House of Trades, Viljandi
Estonian House, Stockholm
The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Island
1992 KÜÜ Gallery, Tartu
Tokko & Arrak Gallery, Tallinn
Chaplin Cultural Centre, Pärnu
G Gallery, Tallinn
1994 Antinor Gallery, Athens, Greece
Estonian Embassy, Stockholm
Estonian Embassy, Bonn
City Gallery, Pärnu
1995 Estonian House, Stockholm
Sebra Gallery, Tartu
1996 Estonian Embassy, Washington
Kunstihoone, Tallinn
1998 Randers Art Museum, Denmark
City Gallery, Haapsalu
1999 Gallery Sammas, Tallinn
J.Laidoner Museum, Tallinn
Estonian Embassy, Kiev, the Ukraine
Vanhan Veturitornin Galleria, Heinola, Finland
2000 Estonian Embassy, Moscow
2001 Gallery of Art Societies, Trondheim, Norway
Kunstihoone gallery, Tallinn
2002 The Haus Galerii, Tallinn
SELECTION OF JOINT EXHIBITIONS
1964 Exhibition of creative group ANK- 64 näitus, theatre "Estonia", Tallinn
1968 Tallinn Graphics Triennal
1969 Biennal of ex-librises, Malbork, Poland
1970 EXPO- 70, Osaka, Japan
III International Graphics Biennal, Krakow
1971 Tallinn Graphics Triennal
Biennal of ex-librises, Malbork, Poland
International Graphics Biennal, Ljubljana
1972 International Graphics Biennal, Frechen, Germany
III International Drawings' Biennal, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
1973 Joan Miró Fund drawings' exhibition, Barcelona
1974 Tallinn Graphics Triennal
International Graphics Biennal, Frechen, Germany
Exhibition of creative group ANK- 64, Tartu
1975 International Graphics Biennal, Ljubljana
II International Graphics Biennal, Vienna, Austria
1976 International Graphics Biennal, Frechen, Germany
IV Baltic Water-colours exhibition, Riga
1977 Tallinn Graphics Triennal
II Baltic Theatre Decorations' Triennal, Vilnius
II Small graphics Quatriennal, Banska- Bystrica, Czhechoslovakia
International Exhibition of Medals, Budapest
1978 International Graphics Biennal, Frechen, Germany
Vilnius Painting Triennal
1979 Vilnius Ex-libris Biennal
1980 Tallinn Graphics Triennal
1981 Vilnius Painting Triennal
Vilnius Ex-libris Biennal
1983 Tallinn Graphics Triennal
International Graphics Biennal, Frechen, Germany
Vilnius Ex-libris Biennal
Riga I Miniature Graphics Triennal
1984 Exhibition of creative group ANK- 64, Tartu
Vilnius Painting Triennal
Art EXPO, Chicago
Baltic Book Graphics Triennal, Vilnius
1985 Vilnius Ex-libris Biennal
Art EXPO, Montreal
Firebird Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Grinnell College, Iowa, USA
1986 Art EXPO, New York
Nicholas Roerich Museum, New
Kiel City Museum, Germany
1987 Vilnius Painting Triennal
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
1988 V European Graphics Biennal, Heidelberg, Germany
ARS Estonica- 88, Helsingi, Tampere
1989 - 1991 "Structure and Metaphysics", Pori, Helsinki, Rovaniemi, Kiel, Stockholm
1990 Art Fair, Stockholm
GKM Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
International Images Ltd Galerii, Sewickly, USA
1991 "Estonian modern graphics", La Louviére , Belgia
"Small format", GMK Gallery, Malmö
Estonian Art Fund Gallery, Helsinki
1992 "Myth and abstraction", Artists' House, Karlsruhe, Germany
Baltic Art Exhibition, Herning Art Museum, Denmark
1993 "Baltic Art", Sollerod Art Museum, Denmark
1995 Exhibition of creative group ANK- 64, Kunstihoone, Tallinn
"E.M.Kokamägi and J.Arrak", Brilon, Germany
"S.Runge and J.Arrak", Hanna Gallery, Stockbridge, M.S., USA
Pärnu Art Summer, Pärnu
1996 Pärnu Art Summer, Pärnu
"Paper", Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn
"Romance of the Nordic countries", Greiffenhorst castle, Krefeld, Germany
1997 "From Gulag to Glastnost", International Images Ltd. Gallery, USA
Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Non-conformist art from the Norton ja Nancy Godge`i private collection, Rotermanni Soolaladu, Tallinn
1999 "L'esprit Nordique", Town Hall of the IX District of Paris
Estonian art from the collection of newspaper "Kaleva", A.Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
2000 'Baltic Art', New York, Washington, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, USA
"Baltic Masters", Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
"Estonian painting at the turn of the millennium", Kunstihoone, Tallinn
"Estonian painting", Foreign Ministry, Berlin
"100 aastat of Estonian ex-librises", Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn
2001 "Real realism", Kunstihoone, Tallinn
"Estonian paintings in Paris"
PRIZES
1977 Diploma of the II Small graphics Quatriennal, Banska-Bystrica, Czhechoslovakia
Annual Painting Prize of the Estonian Artists' Association
1983 Diploma of the Vilnius IV Ex-libris Biennal
Diploma of the Riga I Miniature Graphics Triennal
1984 Diploma of the Baltic Book Graphics Triennal
1985 Diploma of the Vilnius V Ex-libris Biennal
1986 Annual Painting Prize of the Estonian Artists' Association
1987 Diploma of the Vilnius VII Painting Triennal
1990 Kristjan Raud annual prize
1996 Annual prixe of the Estonian Cultural Fund
1997 Medal nominated after Konrad Mägi
1999 Among ten artists - Hundred Great Persons of the century
2000 White Star Decoration, II rank
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
The Estonian Art Museum, the Tartu Art Museum, the Tallinn Kunstihoone, the Tretyakovi Gallery, Moscow; the Krakow National Museum, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, New York; New Orleans Art Museum; The White House, Washington; New York Public Library, Zimmerl Art Museum, New Jersey, USA; Museum of University of Western Sydney, Australia; Randers Art Museum, Denmarki; the Estonian House, Stockholm; etc., in addition in many private collections in Estonia and abroad.