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Lost and Found: On Translation
Artists: Aliya Al-Adwani, Luis Camnitzer, Amira Hanafi, Sol Enae Lee, Boryana Rusenova-ina,
and Mithu Sen
Curated by Diana Isabel Colón
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 18, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
April 18 – May 1, 2024
Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Schedule an appointment by emailing dcolon5@sva.edu
The MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts is pleased to present Lost and Found: On Translation, curated by Diana Isabel Colón. The exhibition engages with the multiplicity and historicity of language and how it manifests in individual and collective identities. Translation becomes more than a literary practice, evolving into one that involves people and cultures. Translation, however, is imperfect, sometimes forming gaps in understanding. To mend those gaps, empathy can serve as a supplement to the act of translation, transcending language and fostering human relationships.
I’ll be going to Wassaic this winter! So excited to spend time at this residency and work on my current project. Looking forward to meeting the wonderful people who run it and catching up with friends in the city.
The Wassaic Project is an artist-run nonprofit gallery, artist residency, and education center in the hamlet of Wassaic, NY. More than 100 artists-in-residence pass through Wassaic each year. We welcome visual artists, writers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, writers, and everyone in between. We're also proud to host one of the largest year-round family residencies in the world and an invite-only print editions program.
Notes from Another Place , Christine Devitt Exhibition Hall, LHUCA
October 6th- November, 25th, 2023
Curated by Boryana Rusenova-Ina and Sam van Strien
Notes from Another Place brings together five artists – Choeye Eun Young Cho, Joonhong Min, Hannah Parrett, Boryana Rusenova-Ina and Sam van Strien – to reflect on the politics, aesthetics, and experience of belonging. Whether this is in terms of the natural environment or the built environment, a monumental scale or an intimate space, our sense of self is often constituted in relation to the spaces and places that we occupy in our everyday life. Each of the artists’ works urges the viewers to sit with and reflect on what it feels to be out of place. Rather than highlighting discomfort or unease, this exhibition revels in the endless possibilities of what emerges in the movement and migration from the familiar into the unfamiliar.
Penn State Altoona to exhibit artwork by Boryana Rusenova-Ina
ALTOONA – I Sang You A Song Though I Didn't Know the Words, a body of work by Ivyside Juried Art Exhibition winner Boryana Rusenova-Ina, will be on display Oct. 12 – Dec. 9, 2023, in the Sheetz Gallery of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
The Galleries are open Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. For further information, call the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at 814-949-5452 or visit the Penn State Altoona website at altoona.psu.edu.
Borders and Boundaries Redefined
Juried by Pritika Chowdhry
August 11th-September 30th, Opening Reception September 8th, 5:30-8pm.
The profound work of Pritika Chowdhry inspired The Art Center Highland Park’s adjunct exhibition Borders and Boundaries Redefined. The Art Center Highland Park sought artists exploring how we define space, whether the literal borders in art, or the arbitrary lines delineating physical spaces such as states and countries, or the symbolic boundaries that separate self from others. The selected artwork reflects the openness of stretching beyond the confines and constrictions that often come with ‘staying in the lines’.
Contributing Artists: Sharon Bachner, Monica Balc, Inseok Choi, Alice Cook, Xiao Faria da Cunha, Frederick Goldstein, Savannah Jubic, Janis Kanter, Cynthia Kerby, Thomas Lail, Joseph Mora, Erica Penuela, Karen Ross, Joan Ruppert, Boryana Rusenova Ina, Sabine Senft, Pearl Shread, Constance Volk, J. Russell Wells, Lisse Williams, Tzuen Wu, Valerie Xanos.
MIRRORING brings together a group of artists who explore the complex ways that storytelling manifests in our daily lives. Through a variety of material approaches, the works in this exhibition ask questions about how spirituality, shifting histories of landscape, regional object ephemera, and private myth shape the way we move through the world. Accepted narratives on a national and cultural scale are challenged and the nuance of personal epistemologies unfold.
Curated by Hannah Parrett
August 18th-September 9th, Gallery Hours: Saturday 12-3, August 19th-September 2nd
You Speak English Too Well
Works by Boryana Rusenova-Ina
On view June 30 - August 19, 2023, Dale Brock and the Visiting Angels Gallery, Arts Fort Worth
Collective Worlds, Group Exhibition at Hera Gallery (RI), Juror: Meghan Clare Considine of Mass MOCA
Meghan Clare Considine is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary visual art and performance and their relationships to radical politics. She is currently the 2021-2023 Graduate Curatorial Fellow at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. She has previously held positions at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
November 19- December 17, 2022.. Opening Reception: November 19th, 6-8pm. Virtual Artist Talk: December 1st, 7pm via Zoom.
“Stories From My Childhood Exhibition” to Open at Northern Illinois University Art Museum
Winter 2022
Dates: Nov. 29 through Dec. 17, 2022, and Jan. 10 through Feb. 17, 2023 (closed university holiday)
"Stories From My Childhood" explores both dark childhood experiences and somewhat humorous and quirky observations of life from a child’s perspective. Artists were asked to depict a transformative event that occurred during their childhood through visual media and text.
"Stories From My Childhood" features the work and stories of Salma Arastu, Nava Atlas, Karen Avant, Anna Betts, Natalie Christensen, Julia Fauci, Shawna Gibbs, Ronald Gosses, Juan Hernandez, Zach Horn, Fletcher Koehrsen, Oxana Kovalchuk, Julia LaChica, Carol Larson, Kaila Larson, Jamie Luoto, Lex Marie, Lori Markman, DaNice D. Marshall, Norbert Marszalek, Rebecca Mason, Michelle Mullet, Amy Nelder, Janelle O’Malley, Diane Rickerl, Arielle Romano, Griselda Rosas, Boryana Rusenova-Ina, Maryam Safajoo, Baylee Schmitt, Sydney Small, Alfred Stark, Amanda Taves, Christian Ulloa, Kyle White, Lisa Fayiza Wright, Ana Zanic, Abby Moon Zeciroski and Jane Zich.
I presented at the annual TASA conference this fall in El Paso. It was lovely to meet so many educators and artists from the region and I got to take away the first place award at the attendees exhibition! Thank you to curator Leslie Moodie Castro and the El Paso Museum of Art for putting on this exhibition.
Will be sharing some new work at Satellite Gallery on October 7th between 6-9 pm.
“My current project "You Speak English Too Well" is grounded in my formative experiences of learning English as a second language in post-communist Bulgaria. Back then writing was drawing and drawing was writing, and now they both have also become painting. I find the intersection between language and identity, and how the former signifies the latter, to be a constant source of curiosity. Most recently, this has been embodied in my young, bi-lingual children and their attempts at drawing out words. The impulse to assign meaning to their scribbles is a precursor to written language and language is another form of cultural capital. I see their marks as an expression of something that is not yet learned but in the process of becoming so. To preserve this state of flux, I copied their scribbles and early writings in a series of trompe l’oeil paintings titled “This Is the Way to Macke a Hart”.
I am very excited to be an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts this summer- foggy San Francisco Bay, here I come!
The Artist in Residence (AIR) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 50 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, comfortable housing, and travel and living expense reimbursements. AIRs become part of a dynamic community of artists participating in Headlands’ other programs, allowing for exchange and collaborative relationships to develop within the artist community on campus. Artists selected for this program are at all stages in their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary, social practice, and architecture.
Looking forward to the opening of this duo exhibition with my dear friend and fantastic fellow artist Martina Nikova. It’s been a long time coming, I’m so glad we got to do this together! Please stop by the opening next Friday, May 27th at Arosita Gallery in Sofia. I’m truly sad to have to miss this but I know that Marti will represent us both better than anyone could!
The exhibition "Lee.Neino" (Li.Near) connects two Bulgarian women artists living in different parts of the world. Boryana Rusenova-Ina - in the Texas Panhandle and Martina Nikova - in overcrowded Sofia. The two artists first met in 2003 as international students at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. Since then, they have been united not only by friendship and art, but also by their common interest in ideas about belonging and more recently-motherhood. In this joint exhibition, the two artists are reflecting on the illusion of a horizon and linearity in life.
Defining the Undefined: Art, Education, Technology, and the Mapping of Ourselves.
2022 Mid-America College Art Association Virtual Conference. Hosted by Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, March 31 - April 2, 2022
This spring I got the pleasure of co-chairing a panel with my colleague Mariana Smith from Stockton University (NJ) on the role of place in art practice and education “From Local to Global: Crossing Borders to Build Place Sensitive Art Practice and Education”. We got a group of fantastic presenters:
Ellen Mueller, Director, MFA Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
Dr. Fátima Martínez, Professor of Journalism, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
Casey Ryann, Independent Curator and Adjunct Professor of Photography, Stockton University, NJ
Dan Jian, Assistant Professor of Drawing, Texas Christian University, TX
Sara Drescher, MFA Candidate, Texas Tech University, TX
OCTOBER 23, 2021 – JANUARY 2, 2022
This exhibition is the ninth in an ongoing series of juried biennial exhibitions exploring specific areas of artistic practice, material, and content. This year, the AMoA staff and Board of Trustees are excited to offer the museum’s exhibition spaces to artists with a socially engaged practice. The exhibition will be a collection of artworks submitted by artists residing within a 600-mile radius of Amarillo, Texas. On view will be more than 120 artworks in a variety of media from 46 artists. The juror, Leslie Moody Castro, is an independent curator and writer whose practice is based on itinerancy and collaboration. She has produced, organized, and collaborated on projects in Mexico and the United States for more than a decade, and her repertoire of critical writing is also reflective of her commitment to place.
(September 20, 2021 – October 28, 2021)
The exhibition was juried by Carrie Johnson, the Executive Director/Curator of the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL. Carrie Johnson was named Executive Director in 2019 after being Curator since 2012. As Curator she lead the development and innovative implementation of exhibitions while overseeing the care for and management of the RAM Permanent Collection.
The exhibition was physical and virtual, a full color catalog was produced which included a statement from the juror.
Aodan • David Bower • Riley Brady • Sally Brogden • RJ Calabrese • Shelley Gilchrist • Blinn Jacobs
• Colleen Kelsey • Dawnice Kerchaert • Ambrin Ling • Daniel McInnis • Joshua Newth • Bryan Northup
• Eve Ozer • Michelle JY Park • Angela Piehl • Heather Ramsdale • Travis Roozée • Boryana Rusenova-Ina
• Sarah Smelser • Ju Yun
Public Domain, Boryana Rusenova-Ina
May 15 – Sep 12, 2021
In this new series of silk dioramas and paintings featuring scenes of Mount Rushmore, Boryana Rusenova-Ina examines the connection between identity, belonging, and the ever-changing symbolism of familiar spaces. Using the landscape genre and techniques borrowed from scenography, her practice explores and subverts perceptions of what is familiar about national landmarks like Mount Rushmore in order to emphasize the multitude of narratives that comprise notions of homeland and collective identity.
I am happy to be invited to Art Start: Leap into the Void Exhibition among some very talented Bulgarian artists. The exhibition is put together by Credo Bonum, the Goethe- Institute Bulgarien and Ko-Op and sponsored by the Culture program of Sofia Municipality. On view through June 4th, 2021. Special thank you to the curators Vessela Nojharova and Boyana Djikova.
Artists: Billy Mateeva, Boryana Rusenova-Ina, Vera Handzhiyska, Vladimira Valkova, Denislav Golemanov, Janina Marinova, Katrin Dimitrova, Kaya Tsenkulovska, Lyuben Malchev, Marina Genova, Maya Venkova, Siyana Shishkova, Sofia Dimova und Tsvetelina Ivanova
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5 години АРТ СТАРТ: Млади художници, които да следим
Галерии: Credo Bonum, Гьоте-институт България, КО-ОП
2021: „Скок в празното" (Leap into the void)
Куратори: Весела Ножарова и Бояна Джикова
Художници: Били Матеева, Боряна Русенова, Вера Хаджийска, Владимира Вълкова, Денислав Големанов, Жанина Маринова, Катерина Димитрова, Кая Ценкуловска, Любен Малчев, Марина Генова, Мая Венкова, Сияна Шишкова, София Димова, Цветелина Иванова.
Credo Bonum и Гьоте-институт България: 11 май - 4 юни, 2021
Откриване: 11 МАЙ, 16:00-20:00 часа
I will be presenting 2 papers at the bi-annual FATE conference. This year it will be virtual and hosted by UNC Charlotte.
“Rethinking Self-Portraiture in the Age of Social Media” will be part of the session on “ Best Practice Share: Navigating 21st Century Figure Drawing” co-chaired by professors Hannah Barnes and Kelly Hrenko from University of Southern Maine.
“Re-Enactments: Appropriating from Art History to Tell New Stories” will be part of the session on “Teaching Ethical Appropriation” co-chaired by professors Erin Dixon and Eilis Crean from University of West Georgia.