Biography

Zhenya Stoyanova is a Bulgarian born multidisciplinary visual artist, based in London and Sofia. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and video. 

Through intuitive exploration of shapes and the way they subconsciously build intimate narratives, she explores the frail thread of existence, making tangible the subject of alienation and isolation, the entanglement between sexuality and mortality, consumerism, and desire. Her multimedia work blurs the boundary between portraiture and still-life, producing inanimate bodies and seemingly animate objects as an attempt to tap into the problem of the objectification and digitalisation of the body, examining of stereotypes and challenging gender notions. She is interested in the obscure, yet ubiquitous representation of the female identity in the digital circulation of imagery, as well as its place in industries, deeply entrenched within hidden layers of exploitation and sexualization (gaming, casino industry, the entertainment industries in general). Topics of money, power, temptation, commodification, transaction, and the lure of chance are some of the concerns she is actively engaged with. 

She is currently studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London.

Exhibitions

2024

BA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London UK

Echoes Into The Future, SafeHouse, London UK

A Daughter and Feral Mothers, AMP Gallery, London UK

2023

Drawing Open 2023, No Format Gallery, London UK