Sobre el Artista

Alexandra (Alya) Rozenman was born in 1971 in Moscow, USSR. Not without political disagreement she was classically trained in a Soviet Art Academy but later on also studied with today well-known dissident artists from Moscow underground movement. Still a teenager she became part of Moscow alternative cultural scene of the 1980’s. Later she immigrated to the U.S. She lived in New York in the 90’s being a part of what later became The Art Alliance program on Lower East Side. Rozenman received her BFA from SUNY in 1993. Later she relocated to Boston and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1998. Her paintings and drawings blend the styles and symbols of folk art, Russian Underground Conceptualism, illustration, and Jewish Art. She received a MacDowell Foundation Fellowship in 2006. Rozenman exhibits both nationally and internationally, including recent venues at Trustman Gallery in Simmons College in Boston, Fountain Street Gallery in Boston and Hudson Gallery in Gloucester, MA. She is a member of Fountain Street Gallery in Boston.