Born in 1964 in Novo mesto, Marija
Mojca Pungerčar lives in Ljubljana.
A former fashion designer in the Slovene textile industry and a member of the
group Linije Sile, she graduated in painting at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Ljubljana
(1989) and took an MFA in 2001 in new genres from San Francisco Art Institute, California. She has been
a freelancer in culture since 1992. She is a founding member of Trivia Art. Her
awards include an Austrian Academic Exchange Scholarship, an ArtsLink
Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship. In addition to her engagement in
contemporary visual art, Marija Mojca Pungerčar is also a theatre costume
designer and the editor of Artservis.org online media.