Iva Troj

Award-winning contemporary artist Iva Troj creates fine art pieces which seamlessly merge Renaissance aesthetics and techniques with postmodern praxis. Her intensely detailed images achieve astonishing tricks of light and shade, as practiced by the great masters while incorporating dreamlike scenes which challenge cultural norms.

Iva is a part Egyptian, part Greek, part Macedonian Swedish artist, designer and researcher based in the UK who grew up in the outskirts of the Romani slums of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. At the age of only 13, Iva was accepted as a student at a local art & design college where she studied design and monumental arts for over 5 years. After that, she studied printmaking at CCAC in California, Design Management in London, and digital arts, e-learning platforms, illustration, animation and design in Sweden. She speaks 5 languages, has 2 bachelor degrees from 4 Swedish universities, a masters degree and a PhD in Art History. Iva mentors young women / LGBTQ+ adults while running a design, art & research practice. In 2022, 2020 and 2016, Troj was named Contemporary Art Excellence Artist of the Year and, in 2013, was the winner of the Towry Best of East England Award and Luma Digital Artist of The Year. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and her work is in gallery, museum, and private collections around the world, including the UK, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Germany, China, South Korea, United States and Japan. Iva is also a prolific digital painter.

Most people don’t know that this established artist and researcher spent decades working as a digital media practitioner to support herself and her children as a single parent. She started her first company at the age of 26, and almost immediately she was employed to handle large brand accounts such as Coca-Cola, SAAB, and Mercedes-Benz. In addition to her current practice, Iva runs workshops and teaches a variety of courses within art and creative digital media practices.

AWARDS:
3 times Cannes Lions Nominee 2021, 2022
Silver Gerety Award 2021
Art Exelence Award 2020 Haegeumgang Museum
CAF Artist Of The Year 2019
Contemporary Art Excellence Artist of 2016 2016
Palm Award Winner 2013
Towry Best of England Award Winner 2013
Luma Digital Artist of The Year 2016