DANIELA KOSTOVA
BORN: 15 June 1974, Sofia, Bulgaria
Lives and works in New York
Teaches at Pratt, Utica and RPI, Troy, NY

EDUCATION
2005 MFA in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
1998 MFA in Painting, National Art Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria

GRANTS/AWARDS
2007 American Foundation for Bulgaria, Sofia/NYC
2006/07 STEP beyond Mobility Grand, European Cultural Foundation
2003/05 Graduate Fellowship, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
2003 Honor, 9th International Cairo Biennial, Cairo, Egypt
2002 Arts Link Residency Program, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2000 First Prize, Onufri 2000, International Competition Visual Arts, Tirana, Albania
1999 Young Artist Award, Art in Bulgaria Magazine, Sofia, Bulgaria
1996 Expressing Handicap Award, Forum Flandrum Bulgaricum, Sofia, Bulgaria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 XAYC, Joan Lucas Rothenberg Gallery, The Red House, Syracuse, NY, USA
2008 Body Without Organs, The Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 Waste To Work, dual show with Olivia Robinson, Schenectady Museum, NY, USA
2007 Made In, dual show with Plamen Dejanoff, Isola Arts Center/Assab One, Milan, Italy
2006 Fixing Reality, 1-60insurgentspace, Small Gallery, Tirana, Albania
2006 Body Without Organs, CEC ArtsLink, New York City, NY
2002 I See-You See, SPACES Gallery, SPACElab, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2001 Play Black, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
1999 Frame, Placentia Arte Gallery, Piacenza, Italy
1999 Life is Cinema, XXL Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Mobile Environments, ISEA 2009, SPARK, Belfast, Ireland
Windows Upon Oceans, 8th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland
Urban Research, 5th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
A Guide for the City, Puebla, Mexico

2008
Another City Another Life, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Video-Salon 3, Gellery 10 m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Social Fabrics, CAA, Dallas, Texas, USA
Mexico/NYC/Paris, Estacion Indianilla Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
moleculART, Gallery Rajko Alexiev, Sofia, Bulgaria
Fresh Picked, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, USA

2007
Between Welcome and Goodbye. Artists Position, Vaska Emanuilova Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Siggraph Unravel, San Diego, CA, USA
Inbetweeness, Complesso di San Michele, Rome, Italy
Dogs of Desire, Albany Orchestra, Albany, NY
8th of March, 51 3rd Street, Troy, NY
Coffee With Sugar, festival by Chance 7002, Pecs, Hungary
Bulgaria?...Oh yes, Buckharest!, Center for Contemporary Art - The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2006
Biennale Donna, Ferrara, Italy
10 Years Video Art in Bulgaria, Odeon, Sofia, Bulgaria
Boundaries, MAN Museum, Nuoro, Italy
South East Passage, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Biennale Donna, Ferrara, Italy
Pandemix Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Le Noire Blansh Festival, Skopie, Macedonia

2005
FamLink, WCA National Conference, Boston, USA
Play Sofia, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Wearable Futures, SCAN, Newport, UK
Donumenta, KunstKnoten e.V. Regensburg, Germany
Beograd Nekad I Sad, Belgrade, Serbia
Serial Cases, Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Alceday Gallery, Brusseles, Belgium

2004
Ethnic Marketing, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Don’t Touch The White Woman, Fondacione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Time Warp, About the Gander of Time, Paris, France
The Post-Communist Condition, Freedom is for Beginners, Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany
It is Hard to Touch the Real, Kunstverein MЯnchen, Germany OOZE, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
Post Mythological Stories, Gallery Irida, Sofia, Bulgaria

2003
10th Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland ABCity, Trafo, Budapest, Hungary
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Film Series, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Colon, Germany
Video Screening 04, Gallerie Martin Janda Actueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria
slow (e) motion, Tranzit, Prague, Czech Republic
Blood & Honey, Future’s in the Balkans, The Essl Collection of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
9th International Cairo Biennial- Mythology... a Bet on Imagination, a Bet on Art, Cairo
Mors Impossibilis, Irida Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Introducing Sites, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
Export – Import. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2002
Beauty and the East, ISCP, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy
MAP. Case Study. 02, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Double Bind, XXL Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Mirror of the Balkans, National Museum Gallery, Kraljevo, Serbia and Montenegro
Girls and See, Varna, Bulgaria
Last Minute, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy
Ostensiv, Moscow, Russia/ Berlin, Germany Side Effects, Irida Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Twice Upon a Time... Balkan Video, Instituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy

2001
Trieste Contemporanea Video Art Presentation, Stazione Marittima, Trieste, Italy
Looming Up, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria/ Aspekte Galerie - Gasteig, Munich, Germany
Presentation by Lino Baldini, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
Simposium ТSplit Reality: EAST + East, Small Power Strategies, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Museumsqartier, Vienna, Austria
Tirana Biennale 1, Tirana, Albania
Shop Art. Women at (on) the Market, The Saint Sofia Underpass, Sofia, Bulgaria
Trendification. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria
European Perspectives, International Art Fair, Insbrug, Austria
WRO 01 9th International Media Art Biennale, WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland
Sculpture Time, Skopie, Macedonia
Macrovideo, National Palace of Culture, Sofia

2000
In & Out, Onufri 2000, National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania
Video Medeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Videoarchaeology (MEDIA. DOC), 2. International Video art Festival, American Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
At Room Temperature, Alternative Space, Sofia, Bulgaria
Transfestival, Labin Art Express, Labin, Croatia
Balkan Art Generator, Brussels, Belgium
Subjects and Shadows, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Anti- Feminism/ Anti- Machismo, XXL Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Paranoia Stile, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

WORK EXPERIENCE
2009
Adjunct Professor, Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY
Adjunct Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

2008
Adjunct Professor, Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY
Adjunct Professor Intermediate Digital Imaging, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Film Cosultant, Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY

2006-2007
Curator BioaArt Initiative, Biotech Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Adjunct Professor Intermediate Digital Imaging, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Program Coordinator, Santuary for Independant Media, Troy, NY

2005
Museum Assistant, Michigan University Museum, Ann Arbor, MI

2004
Teaching Assistant, Media Art Studio:AudioVideo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Gallery Assistant, IEAR Presents and Gallerty 111, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

2000-2003
Director and Curator, Irida Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2002-2003
Program Coordinator, Irida Foundation for Art, Science and Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria