Selma Selman (born 1991 Bihać) is a Bosnian-American visual artist and performance artist of Roma origin. She is a cultural and social activist. She lives and works between Bihać and New York City. She won a 2014 Zvono award. Life She was born in Bihać and grew up in a Roma settlement. She studied painting at the Banja Luka Academy of Fine Arts. She participated in the Summer Academy in Salzburg, where she studied with Tania Bruguera, and in the one-year Rome Graduate Preparation Program at the Central European University. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Transmedia, Visual and Performing Art from Syracuse University. ​ She works with a variety of classical and modern techniques and media and with new technologies. She is especially related to the gypsy collection and recycling practices, but also to destructiveness. Through her art, she questions the positions of gypsies, women and migrants in the processes of discrimination and emancipation. She organized her first solo exhibition "I exist" in collaboration with curator Jasmina Tumbaš in 2016 in Buffalo, which traveled to Vienna. ​ She actively exhibits, participates in festivals and has won several awards. She is the founder of the organization Marš u školu / Get the heck back to school, which grants scholarships to young Roma girls, and encourages and helps them complete primary education. Selman is a popular young artist from Bihać, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. References Living people 1991 births People from Bihać Artists