Boryana Dragoeva (Rossa)

Biography

Boryana Rossa, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who works in the fields of technology and art, film, video, performance, and bio-art. Her work is focused on the influence of technology and science on all fields of human activity.

Rossa’s works have been shown internationally at such venues as Brooklyn Museum and Exit Art, New York; Kunstwerke and Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; Museum of Contemporary Art (MUMOK), Vienna; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw; Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMCA) and National Gallery of Fine Arts, Sofia; First Balkan Biennale, Thesaloniki; Coreana Museum, Seoul; Biennial for Electronic Art, Perth (BEAP), Australia; Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies (FACT), Liverpool; and Society for Art and Technology (SAT), Montreal, among others.

In 2018, together with Heidi Hehnly, associate professor of biology at Syracuse University, she established The BioArt Research Coalition of Syracuse, a forum at Syracuse University where artists and scientists from different fields meet to share their research and discuss it with representatives of other disciplines. Rossa is a co-founder and leader of the Posthumanities: Arts and Sciences subgroup of the Bioinspired Institute.

Education

• Ph.D., M.F.A, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• M.A., National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria

Areas of Expertise

Bio-art, experimental film and video art, performance art