About
Hello!
I am a Bulgarian illustrator constantly on the move.
In 2017, I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna with Illustration and Comics, and in 2020 I completed a Master’s in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art.
In 2020, the Victoria and Albert museum awarded me Student Illustrator of the Year Runner-Up, in their annual Illustration Awards.
Besides telling stories through art, I am pleased to be a tutor at the Venster Academy in Utrecht.
Published work
Моята София и други образи (My Sofia and Other Folks, working title), Vyara Boyadjieva, published with Tochitza Publishing, 2024.
Word Trouble, Vyara Boyadjieva, published with Walker Books 2023.
Misé Misé, Camille Lavoix, Vyara Boyadjieva, published with La Joie de Lire, 2022.
A Day That’s Ours, Blake Nuto, Vyara Boyadjieva, published with Flying Eye Books, 2022.
When Inside is Out, the diaries of an isolation, multiple authors, published with Janet 45, 2020.
I Am a Bulgarian Woman, multiple authors, published with Ciela Publishing, 2019.
The Beautiful Cassandra, Jane Austen, Vyara Boyadjieva, published with List Publishing, 2018.
COMPETITIONS
2023: The Sofianer
2020: Student Illustrator of the Year Runner-Up at the V&A Museum Illustration Award 2020.
Articles announcing the winners:
2018: BUCHSCHMUCK, first prize. A competition organised by the Goethe Institut in Sofia, celebrating German literature through illustration.
2010: BIL (Banque Internationale Luxembourg), first Prize.
EXHIBITIONS
2020: VIJ! The Isolation, a group exhibition of artworks made during the pandemic (COVID-19) in Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, organised by Vij! Mag.
2020: the Children’s Book Illustration Master’s course exhibition in London, at the Candid Arts Trust gallery. Short-listed for the Sebastian Walker Prize for ‘best picture book’ alongside four other illustrators.
2020: the Children’s Book Illustration Master’s course exhibition in Cambridge, at the Ruskin gallery.
2020: History in Portraits, a group exhibition in the gallery Rakursi, in Sofia. On the occasion of the book I Am a Bulgarian Woman, published by Ciela, in 2019.
2018: BUCHSCHMUCK, a group exhibition organised and based in the Goethe Institut in Sofia.
2017: Notte Bianca, an annual event when the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna opens its doors to visitors.