Daria Vassilyanska

Daria Kozmova Vassilyanska (in Bulgarian Дария Козмова Василянска) is a Bulgarian artist.

Daria Vassilyanska was born on 28 November 1928 in Varna, Bulgaria. Graduated the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in 1955, specialty painting, under Prof. Iliya Petrov.

Lives and works in Varna. She is wife of the Bulgarian theatre director Stancho Stanchev.

Free-lance artist. Works in the field of easel painting, stage design, monumental and decorative mural painting, decorative applied projects.

Since 1959 participant in national, group and regional exhibition of the Union of the Bulgarian Artists.

Her works are property of 23 state art galleries in Bulgaria, various institutions and private collectors in Bulgaria and abroad.

She died on 4 December 2017.

• 1974 – Gdansk The pavilions of BWA, Sopot, Poland
• 1975 – Exhibition Hall at 65 “Knyaz Boris I” – Varna
• 1975 – Lamartine museum, the Old town of Plovdiv
• 1976 – Gallery of the Union of the Bulgarian Artist "Shipka 6" Sofia
• 1976 – Göttingen, Germany
• 1977 – Art Fest – Oreshak
• 1998 – “The Ladies, the Ladies up on Stage” – “Art 36” Gallery, Sofia
• 1998 – Jubilee exhibition at the Varna City Gallery 'Boris Georgiev'
• 1999 – Sundry Pictures, TED gallery, Varna
• 1999 – Daria’s Cats, Georgi Velchev museum, Varna
• 2000 – Little Landscapes with the Sea, Gallery 8, Varna
• 2001 – Madonnas, Gallery 8, Varna
• 2001 – Grimaces and Smiles, Georgi Velchev museum, Varna
• 2002 – Madonnas, Art 36 Gallery, Sofia
• 2002 – Greetings, Bearers of Culture!, Gallery 8, Varna
• 2003 – The Threepenny Exhibition, Gallery 8, Varna
• 2004 – Seaside, Dyakov gallery, Plovdiv
• 2004 – Old-fashioned Exhibition, Artin gallery, Varna
• 2006 – Looking at Things More Beautiful, Artin gallery, Varna
• 2008 – Exhibition at “Zlatyu Boyadzhiev” Museum – Old Plovdiv
• 2008 – With These Ones I Feel Fine, Jubilee exhibition at the Varna City Gallery 'Boris Georgiev'
• 2014 – Smiles and Grimaces, at the Varna City Gallery 'Boris Georgiev'
• 2016 – Paper Paintings at the Varna City Gallery
• 2016 – Daria’s Cats – Second Hand at the House of Architect in Varna
• 2017 – In Memoriam – Varna City Gallery 'Boris Georgiev'

• 1974 Design for decorative metal grilles and ceramic panels – Dzhanavara, Varna
• 1974 Mural “Harmony” in the foyer of “Chernorizets Hrabar” Primary School, Varna
• 1977 Mural “Shipbuilding” – 250x500 cm – the foyer of Bulgarian Ship Hydrodynamics Centre, Varna