biography.

DORIS BLOOM was born in Vereeniging in South Africa, in 1954 and studied in the Johannesburg Art College. Since 1976 she lives in Copenhagen where she studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in the Design Department with Robert Jacobsen. She combines her work as a painter with an equally important involvement in photography, installation, and graphics.

Bloom has participated in several international exhibitions and represented Denmark at the Johannesburg Biennial in 1995 with a project in collaboration with William Kentridge. Her work has been included in “New territories of art. Europe / America”, curated by Achielle Bonito Oliva, and in “Out of Africa” Contemporary Danish Art at the South Africa National Gallery. Solo exhibitions include “Chronology of Bloom I, II, III”, Dublin, Copenhagen and Johannesburg 2001-02, “Newspaper Pictures”, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, 1999, “Places”, Sonderjyllands Kunstmuseum 1997, “Snakes & Ladders”, DCA Gallery, New York 1996, “Projected Artists” (in collaboration with William Kentridge), STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI, Rome 1995.

Her works are present in public and private collections: Johannesburg Art Gallery, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Royal Collection of Prints and Drawings, Copenhagen, Vejile Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Sonderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Ireland Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

selected works.

selected works by DORIS BLOOM shown at STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.