Milena Art

BIOGRAPHY
Milena Bojkova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria 1966 where she grew up with her parents and younger sister. At the age of 23, Milena immigrated to Canada at the end of the communist regime in her home country. Milena moved between Montreal, Toronto and Chicago for three years before establishing herself in Montreal, her current home. For 7 years she struggled to obtain Canadian citizenship in the face of changing government regulations with respect to refugee status and immigration from ex-communist countries. She obtained Canadian citizenship in 1997.

Ms. Bojkova has worked in the decoration, furniture design, clothing design and entertainment industries in both Bulgaria and Canada. She spent most of her initial time in Canada establishing new roots, raising a family and participating in Bulgarian cultural events. Milena has now combined her technical skills and a natural gift in design to focus on abstract art paintings. Milena works in the acrylic on canvas medium.

EXHIBITIONS
Le Nantua, Montreal, Quebec, February - June, 2009
Gallery 240, Ottawa, Ontario April, 2009
Somerset Art Fair, Ottawa Ontario, May-August, 2009

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Woman , Roger Anderson, Seattle, Washington
Untitled (20” x 16”, acrylic on canvas), Margarita Demchenko, Montreal, Quebec

Expressions of incongruity, the world's beauty and absurd conflicts combine to create
a form that is contemporaneously provocative and pleasant.

Painting has providing a venue for expressing my life’s experiences and viewpoints on today’s society. I’ve chosen the abstract form as it additionally allows me to create pieces that fit into the décor of any living space allowing the viewer an option of using art as a centerpiece or more subtly blending in with its surroundings. My initial paintings were created with this perspective. I immigrated to Canada from Bulgaria where I faced the struggles of learning two new languages and integrating into a new society. My art reflects my view on the imperfections of each society, the promise and disappointments of human relationships, the beauty of nature and the intricacies of spirituality. These topics inspire my work along with the objective of creating an explanation that is pleasant in itself.