Daniel Bozhkov
Daniel Bozhkov employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields, using different strategies 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 Bozhkov is a recipient of 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, Art Matters, and Artslink. He has shown at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Arthouse at Jones Center in Austin, Texas; Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Berlin, Germany, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey. His work has been shown in international exhibitions such as the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2007, 9th Istanbul Biennale in 2005, the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia in 2005, and the 9th Baltic Triennale in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2005. He teaches at Columbia University and Yale University, and is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City.
Articles by Daniel Bozhkov
Divan … the universe has no loyalty
‘Divan … the universe has no loyalty’ from 2009 is a traveling waiting room by Daniel Bozhkov that provides a place to sit with cushions and Newsweek magazines, and occasionally becomes a site for the gathering of storytellers. It follows the traces of a family jewel with an inscription in Ottoman Farsi that reads “… [...]