Boryana Rossa | |
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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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Boryana Rossa (born 1972) is a Bulgarian interdisciplinary artist and curator making performance art, video and photographic work. [2] [3]
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]
Lorraine O'Grady is an American artist, writer, translator, and critic. Working in conceptual art and performance art that integrates photo and video installation, she explores the cultural construction of identity – particularly that of Black female subjectivity – as shaped by the experience of diaspora and hybridity. O'Grady studied at Wellesley College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop before becoming an artist at age forty-five. Regarding the purpose of art, O'Grady said in 2016: "I think art’s first goal is to remind us that we are human, whatever that is. I suppose the politics in my art could be to remind us that we are all human."
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Elizabeth Ann Sackler is a public historian, arts activist, and the daughter of Arthur M. Sackler; as such, she is a member of the Sackler family. She is the founder of the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Global Feminisms was a feminist art exhibition that originally premiered at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York City, United States, in March 2007. The exhibition was co-curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin and consists of work by 88 women artists from 62 countries. Global Feminisms showcased art across many mediums, all trying to answer the question "what is feminist art?". The show was visually anchored by the installation of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party.
GenderFail is a publishing and programming initiative created by Be Oakley that seeks to encourage projects from an intersectional, queer perspective. Many projects are tied together by the slogan "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance". The press is currently based out of Brooklyn, New York. In an April 16, 2020 article "Our Favorite New Yorkers on the Best Things in All Five Boroughs" in Conde Nast Traveler, curator Legacy Russell mentioned GenderFail as one of their favorite things in New York.
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