Rossina Bossio is a multidisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied Visual Arts at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in her hometown and Fine Arts at L’École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, France.
Growing up in Bogotá in a highly conservative and religious environment, Bossio’s earliest drawings and paintings delved into her past aiming to shatter taboos about gender and sexuality, in an attempt to redefine her identity and rewrite her own story.
In early 2008 she traveled to France, where she would live and work for several years. This marked an important turn in Bossio’s work, focusing less on autobiographical issues and more on the wide-ranging situations of all womankind. Gender systems and traditional conceptions of femininity thus became the core of Bossio’s practice. Currently, her work examines the construction of feminine identity within modern patriarchal societies and its interrelationship to the representation of women in visual communication.
The Holy Beauty Project (THBP) is Rossina Bossio’s latest project. Featuring painting, video and performance, THBP explores the seductive power of images as well as the influence of religious and pop iconography on women’s identity. The multi-media project also questions boundaries between masculine and feminine, Latin-American and European, ancient and contemporary, simultaneously glorifying and deriding icons, and bringing forth the arbitrariness of social values and established role behaviors, particularly among women.
2009 Guest speaker ConferenceThe status of women artists and the representation of women in art in the 21st century.
University Jean Moulin Lyon III. Lyon, France
2009 DNAP avec felicitations du jury (National Fine Arts Degree with honors
Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Rennes, France
2007 First PrizePlastic Arts Convocatory Nino-Techo-Derecho. Fundacion Tiabambi Colseguros.
Bogota, Colombia
