Vessela Nozharova was born in1974 г. in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. She graduated with Masters of Arts in Art History from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. From 1998 to 2000 Ms. Nozharova worked at the Union of Bulgarian Artists. In 2001 she worked consecutively for the private galleries “Irida” and ATA – Center for Contemporary Art. Since 2003 she has worked as a Visual Arts Manager and Curator at The Red House Center for Culture and Debate in Sofia.
Since the end of the 1990s she has been writing criticism for specialized art publications, covering contemporary Bulgarian art. She has curated numerous exhibits, including “The 80’s – Known – Unknown – Forgotten“ at the National Gallery of Foreign Art in 2002; “Dead-lock” – an exhibition-attempt to bring together Nedko Solakov and Svetlin Roussev at the BULART Gallery in Varna in 2004; “Reverse” photo-video installation by Samuil Stoyanov at ATA-Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004; „4Х4” exhibition by Ivan Mudov, (photography, video, and installations) at The Red House Centre, Sofia in 2005; “Fresh, Super Fresh!” – contemporary Bulgarian painting, a project included in the art exhibition “10X5X3” at the Union of Bulgarian Artists in 2006.