Jelko Terziev (b. 1974, Sofia) is a Bulgarian new media artist who lives and works in Sofia. completed a Bachelor’s degree in Painting at the National Academy of Art in 2001, studying in the classes of Bozhidar Boyadzhiev and Andrey Daniel. In 2005 he earned a Master’s degree in the New Media class of Peter Kogler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His solo exhibitions include Schrödinger’s Cat (with Krasimir Terziev), +359 Gallery, Sofia, 2021; If a Tree Falls in a Forest and No One Is Around, Does It Make a Sound? (with Krasimir Terziev), +359 Gallery, Sofia, 2018; Club “The Eight Ball,” Sofia, 2008; Opak, Pistolet Gallery, Sofia; and No Comments, Irida Gallery, Sofia, 2001.
Selected group exhibitions include Radical Formal Analysis, +359 Gallery, 2020, curated by Peter Tsanev; Object of Desire, Arosita Gallery, Sofia, 2018; Substories, part of Project Donau, Karlsruhe, 2015; Substories Toys, Academia Gallery, Sofia, 2014; So We Are Friends, Pistolet Gallery, Sofia, 2011; SUB form Substories, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia, 2011; Avalanche, Apocalypse Now, episode 4, nbsp Gallery, Paris, 2007; the Diagonale Festival, Vienna, 2006; and the XI Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens. In 2008 he was nominated for the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award.