Boryana Rossa Explained

Boryana Rossa
Birth Name:Boryana Dragoeva
Occupation:Artist, Filmmaker, Educator
Nationality:Bulgarian
Alma Mater:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D), National Center for the Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria (M.A.)[1]
Genre:Performance Art, BioArt, Video Art

Boryana Rossa (born 1972) is a Bulgarian interdisciplinary artist and curator making performance art, video and photographic work.[2] [3]

Life and work

Her artwork has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Sofia,[4] Goethe Institute,[5] the Moscow Biennial,[4] the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum,[6] Exit Art,[4] Biennial for Electronic Art in Perth,[4] and Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies in Liverpool.[4]

Rossa frequently collaborates with artist and filmmaker Oleg Mavromati, often under the title Ultrafuturo—an art collective started in 2004.[7]

She has been awarded the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art,[8] the Essential Reading for Art Writers Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Sofia,[9] and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2014[10] in Digital/Electronic Arts.

She is currently Associate Professor of Art Video in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Syracuse University.[11] [12]

Rossa identifies herself as a heterosexual woman with a queer identity.[13]

She supports LGBT and queer rights.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Boryana Dragoeva (Rossa). Syracuse University: Faculty & Staff. 27 January 2016.
  2. Web site: FACT Artist: Boryana Rossa . FACT UK . 10 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307154202/http://www.fact.co.uk/people/boryana-rossa-aka-dragoeva.aspx . 7 March 2016 .
  3. Web site: Exhibitions: Global Feminisms . Brooklyn Museum . 10 March 2015.
  4. Book: Kosmala. Katarzyna. Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe. 2014. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-6785-6. 257.
  5. News: Boryana Rossa & Oleg Mavromatti. 12 July 2015. Goethe Institute.
  6. Web site: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Boryana D Rossa. Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base. 10 March 2015.
  7. News: Galperina. Marina. Artist's Notebook: Ultrafuturo. 10 March 2015. Animal NY. 10 September 2012.
  8. Web site: Amazon Armour. Gaudenz B-Ruf Award. 10 March 2015.
  9. Web site: Art Writers Award for 2012. Institute for Contemporary Art Sofia. 10 March 2015.
  10. Web site: NYFA Proudly Announces the 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees. New York Foundation for the Arts. 23 January 2015. 10 March 2015.
  11. Web site: Boryana Dragoeva (Rossa) . 2024-03-14 . College of Visual and Performing Arts . en-US.
  12. Web site: re.act.feminism - a performing archive . 2024-03-14 . www.reactfeminism.org.
  13. https://www.hma.org.il/eng/Exhibitions/7900/Boryana_Rossa_and_Oleg_Mavromati:_Woman_President Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromati: Woman President
  14. https://www.hma.org.il/eng/Exhibitions/7900/Boryana_Rossa_and_Oleg_Mavromati:_Woman_President www.hma.org.il

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