Victoria Goro-Rapoport is Professor of Drawing and Printmaking at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, and emigrated from the former USSR in 1990. She earned two MFA degrees in United states: one in set design from the University of Utah in 1999, and another one in Printmaking from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002.In 2004 she joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska at Kearney.  She is an active practicing artist and printmaker. During her professional career she participated in over 500 exhibitions and received over 100 awards and award nominations.

My early professional life was connected with theatre. While working as a set designer I learned to pay close attention to the complex relationship between the human figure and its environment. Whether man-made or natural, hostile or friendly, realistic or fantastic, environment always interacts with the protagonists who inhabit it. In my drawings and prints, I explore the intricate interplay between the characters and their worlds, and the mutual influence the space and the figure exert on each other.

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Victoria Goro-Rapaport