Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University
Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University

Feb. 26, 2013, 9PM: DANIEL BOZHKOV

Darth Vader Tries to Clean the Black Sea With Brita Filter, 2000, C-print mounted on aluminum

Daniel Bozhkov is an artist based in New York City. He employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields to activate the public space. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Daniel is a recipient of 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, Alpert Award Residency Prize, and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, Art Matters, and Artslink. His work has been presented in international exhibitions such as the 6th Liverpool Biennial, in 2010, 6thMercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2007, 9th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey in 2005, the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia in 2005. Daniel Bozhkov is an Associate Professor of Art at Hunter College, CUNY, and has taught as a Lecturer at Columbia University and Yale University School of Art.

Training In Hospitality (Mural), 2000, Fresco on wall

More information can be found here:

Liverpool Biennial Artist Talk: Daniel Bozhkov (2010)

Andrew Kreps Gallery: Daniel Bozhkov

Learn How to Fly Over a Very Large Larry (Crop Sign), 2002, Impression on grass