Emerging Artist

Lilian Shtereva

Sofia Art Fair 2024 presents Lilian Shtereva.

Lilian Shtereva, born in 1994 and raised in Haskovo, Bulgaria, is a Brooklyn – based artist. Lilian is currently in the BFA program in Studio Arts at Hunter College, CUNY, New York and will be graduating in 2025. Her work explores a personal affection and adornment of cloth that drives her artistic interpretation of mending worn, hand-woven and traditional textiles into soft sculptural forms that investigate ideas of cultural dissonance, home and space with the focus on family and legacy. The use of a variety of mediums, including most of the traditional fabrics that were hand-woven by the artist’s great-grandmother as well as the “found object” are signifying the importance of place – the place that is defined by ancestry.