I was born in Finland and earned a Master’s Degree in English Philology from the University of Turku. Since 1980 my husband’s work has taken us to live in various countries on four continents, including Brazil where our son was born in 1988. After long stays in the US and England we have now returned to Brazil where we live in the Mantigueira mountain region between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Despite the long distances I still continue to exhibit in Europe and in the US.

I started working with glass while living in Florida where I studied with the late Brian Rowe in Miami and have been a full time glasswork artist since 1995.

My work has been sold and privately commissioned in Finland, England, Norway, France, Denmark, Spain, Brazil, USA, Hong Kong, Australia and Saudi Arabia.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION:
Taidesalonki Piirto, November 2009

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Galeria Spazio Surreale, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2009
Taidesalonki Piirto, Helsinki, Finland 2007
Taidesalonki Piirto, Helsinki, Finland 2005

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
DANK / Scharpenberg Gallery, Chicago, USA 2008
Dankhaus (group exhibition) Chicago, USA 2007
Marle Place (with Amanda Averillo) Brenchley 2007
Oval Theatre (with Susan Lishman) London 2006
Landmark Midsummer Art Fair, London 2006
Dulwich Art Fair, London 2006
Chelsea Art Fair, London 2006/2007
Cat Hill Art, London 2006
Gallery at Oxo, London 2005
Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland 2005
Mountbatten Gallery, Portsmouth 2002
Maidstone Museum / Bentlif Gallery, Maidstone 2001
Letchworth Arts Centre, Letchworth Garden City 2001
401 Studios, London 1999/2000-1
The Consulate of Mexico, Miami 1997
BRAC Studios, Miami 1997/1998

PUBLIC SPACES:
Archdiocese of Miami, commission of chapel windows, Miami 1977
Aura Medical Centre, Turku, Finland 2007
Museo de Parlamento do Sao Paulo, 2009

Featured: Association of Stained Glass Lamp Artists (ASGLA, USA) Calendar 2002; ‘HablEmos del Arte’, TV Channel 17, Miami 1998

PUBLICATIONS:
2009  Diario Oficial do Estado de Sao Paulo
2007  Vakka-Suomen Sanomat
2005  Uudenkaupungin Sanomat

"Through an individual technique with a predominance of glass Eva Rossi creates her art achieving truly unusual results.

Born in the liberty of a real artistic passion and through the choise of themes the work transforms itself into an immediate and efficient message. The value of Eva Rossi´s art comes from the part which is the most intimate and most hidden, most improvised and most sincere. Not only is the work about about art but also about an independent and free cry of her real truth.

In effect there is no real difference between her more informal work and work that depicts more realistic subjects. Eva Rossi´s creativity is born in her true interior, thus it is not reproductive or imitative.

Within the darkness of the majority of her creations, a magic luminosity is reflected through the multicoloured pieces of glass she uses in her work."
 
by Emanuel von Lauenstein Massarani
    Critico de Arte
    Superintendente do Patrimonio Cultural