Boryana Rossa (born 1972) is a Bulgarian interdisciplinary artist and curator making performance art, video and photographic work.[2][3]
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Born | 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 |
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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 an Assistant Professor of Transmedia at Syracuse University.[8]
Rossa identifies herself as a heterosexual woman with a queer identity.[11]
She supports LGBT and queer rights.[12]
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