MARIJA MOJCA PUNGERČAR

Born in 1964 in Novo mesto, Marija Mojca Pungerčar lives in Ljubljana. A former fashion designer in the Slovene textile industry and a member of the group Linije Sile, she graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1989) and took an MFA in 2001 in new genres from San Francisco Art Institute, California. She has been a freelancer in culture since 1992. She is a founding member of Trivia Art. Her awards include an Austrian Academic Exchange Scholarship, an ArtsLink Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship. In addition to her engagement in contemporary visual art, Marija Mojca Pungerčar is also a theatre costume designer and the editor of Artservis.org online media.