Rossella Matamoros (b. 1960)

Costa Rican born artist Rossella Matamoros has garnered numerous awards during her artistic trajectory both in her native country as well as international prizes such as the French Government Scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts (1988); The Fulbright Scholarship (1991); the Japan Foundation Scholarship to study printmaking and Noh theatre (1999) in Japan. In 2003 Matamoros was selected to participate in the 50th edition of the renowned Venice Biennale. A painter, performance and video artist, her work draws from her extensive and varied multi-disciplinary research in areas such as the performance arts, sociology, psychology, and drama.