Daniel Bozhkov is a Bulgarian-born artist based in New York City. He employs a variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, collaborating with professionals from diverse fields to activate the public space. Bozhkov enters the worlds of genetic science, department megastores, and world-famous tourist sites as an amateur intruder/visitor, producing new strains of meaning in seemingly closed systems.
Daniel Bozhkov was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025. He is also a recipient of the Rome Prize of the American Academy, and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Andy Warhol Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been presented at MoMA P.S.1, Queens Museum, Artists Space, and The Kitchen in New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art in LA; Neuberger Museum in Purchase, NY; and the Art House in Austin, TX. He has participated in international exhibitions such as the 33rd São Paolo Biennial, 6th Liverpool Biennial, 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, 9th Istanbul Biennial, and the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Daniel Bozhkov is Professor of Art at Hunter College, The City University of New York. He has taught at the Whitney ISP, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Columbia University, Yale University School of Art, RISD, and Cooper Union, as well as a Visiting Artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.