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