Iva Troj is an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She studied art and design in the US and Scandinavia before establishing an art practice in the United Kingdom in 2012.
“Hello Troj” is based on her experiences growing up as a young protege during the last decade of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Iva Troj is a PhD and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work is in private and museum collections in the UK, France, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, China, United States, South Africa, South Korea and Japan.
Hello Troj is a book that took over three decades to experience and 12 years to write. It is a book about growing up as a young female arts protégé during the last decade of Communism in Eastern Europe, in a society shaped by a rapidly disintegrating censorship apparatus struggling to sustain itse...
