"My art is very much to do with Albanian history. Autobiography is myself and all Albanians. Everything expressed is real. Everything is deliberate... I must continue... Colours, rags; I love them all. With these things I express feelings and concerns related to my heart, head and time. Inspiration, imagination, courage, psychological burden... It's me in these paintings."

BIOGRAPHY
Name: Xhevdet Xhafa
Date and place of birth: 1934, Pejë
Graduated and post-graduated in Ljubljana under the mentoring of prof. Gabriel Stupica.
Now works as a professor at the Academy of Arts in Prishtina.

Solo exhibitions
Peja, Prishtina, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Niš...
1973 -Belgrade, Youth Gallery
1984 -Belgrade, Salon of Contemporary Museum 1985 -Paris, CCY Gallery
1988 -Dubrovnik, The Gallery of Modern Arts
1996 -Skopje -Contemporary Museum
2004-Prishtina, Museum of Kosova

The Most Important Collective Exhibitions
1971, 1973 -Rijeka -Youth Biennale
1974, 1976 -Rijeka -International Biennale of Original Drawings
1974, 1977 -Siovenj Gradec, International Contemporary Arts 1975 -Cannes (France), International Art
1975 -Paris, Vienna, Rome, Wellington, Sydney, Contemporary Art of former Yugoslavia
1980-82 -New York, Contemporary Exhibition with artists of former Yugoslavia that live abroad
1982, 1986 -Belgrade, Triennial of Contemporary Art in former Yugoslavia
1980, 1983, 1987 -Sarajevo, Biennale of Contemporary Art 1982 -New Delhi, International Triennial of Painting

Awards and Acknowledgments
1971 -Ljubljana, University of France Prešern
1074, 1975 -Two Prizes from exhibitions in Kosova
1975 -Cannes, National Prize 1975 -Prishtina
1980 -New York, Acknowledgement from Biennale
1983 -Čačak -Nadezhda Petrović Prize
1985 -ULUS-s Gold Medallion