Eszter Rosta (b.1995, CA) is an emerging interdisciplinary performance artist living and working in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (amiskwaciwâskahikan), so-called Edmonton.
Prioritizing embodiment and research-creation as methodological approach, they engage ephemeral materials and processes to contemplate the performativities, poetics, and politics of relationships and encounters. Their practice, informed by a queer, anti/ decolonial, and anti-capitalist ethos, seeks to locate performative happenings as sites of resistance, worldmaking, and potential; both inside and outside of the gallery.

Eszter holds an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Alberta, and they have exhibited work and performed nationally. They have also presented their research at symposia, including the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference, the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) Graduate Conference, and the Feminist Art Conference (FAC).

Eszter’s work has received support and funding from organizations such as the Edmonton Arts Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the University of Alberta, and the Royal Society of Canada.