Born in 1979 , Latvia
Lives and works in London and Latvia

2003 Graduated from Latvias Academy of Arts
2004 Moved to London where she has assisted both various Production Designers and Fashion Photographers
Over the last two years ilze has been working on a project " Childhood is like a loaded gun" which is about a journey to her past via presence of her niece Katrina..
She secretly dreams of moving to New York one day, give birth to 5 kids and publish lots of beautiful books..while using nature as an inspiration or a trigger to whatever may come...


Group Exhibitions
2009 "Wonderful trip" VEF Factory Riga, Latvia
2009 "All Photographers Now!", NYPH'09, New York
2009 Ctrl+Alt+Shift / VICE magazine, AOP Gallery, London
2007 "Nights of Photography, Kaunas photo'07 , Lithuania

Solo Exhibitions
2007 " Different worlds " AG7 Gallery, Riga, Latvia

Art Projects
FIP 2009 "Future Shiorts" Contest
Award winning Fashion Short Film "Lust Lust" directed by Martins Grauds, costume design Keta Gutmane, director of photography Uldis Jancis, photography ilze vanaga & kaspars lielgalvis

work published
2008 dec VICE magazine, London
2007 "Foto kvartals" No.1,2,3,4 Latvia, www.fotokvartals.lv