Bio
Herta Balode has been taking part in art competitions and exhibitions since her studies in Limbaži Art School. One of the artist's first exhibited and awarded artworks being 2nd place in Jūrmala Art School’s annual exhibition "I live by the Sea" in 2012.
After graduating elementary school, Balode moved to Riga to study in Riga Art and Design Secondary School. Alongside studies, she has been part of an Erasmus+ project in The Ceramics And Glassmaking Secondary Vocational School in Karlovy Vari. As she is also interested in illustration, Balode took the chance to be an intern for "Kuš!" Comics in 2022. In the final year of secondary school, she won 2nd/3rd place and her first
money prize in the painting competition "Picasso" held by Janis Rozentāls Riga Art School in 2023.
On her first year in the Art Academy of Latvia in 2023, Herta Balode won the Latvian State Forest Scholarship in Art. In the beginning of 2025, her painting "Sunrise" was featured in the Tikkurila Color Now 2025 presentation event. In July of 2025, her comic about the subject of loss ws featured in the 41st issue of the magazine "Avīzes Nosaukums". The artist's first solo exhibition "Color is The Only Memory" happened in August of 2025 at the gallery "Hypercentrs" in riga. In September of the same year, her painting "The Food Chain" was part of the group exhibition "Transitions" at "Berg's Bazaar" gallery in Riga.
Balode has spent her third year's fall semester studying at The School of Media and Arts in Caen, France. Since 2026, her artworks are part of auctions held by gallery "Antonija". During June of 2026, her paintings were exhibited at "M/Gallery" in a solo exhibition called "From Dream A to Dream B".