Irina Botea Bucan lives in Bucharest, Birmingham and London. After graduating from the Art University in Bucharest, the artist earned her Master’s degree from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In 2014, Irina received the 3Arts award, conferred to female artists for exceptional professional activity. Her role as an artist is in a continuous flux, as she transitions from the position of the observer to that of a reflexive, participative and performative module.

 

Irina Botea Bucan, Out of the Bear, 2004