Zornitza Kalinova was born on 22.12.1973 in Ruse, Bulgaria. Between 1992 and 1997 she studies Textiles at the National Academy of Fine Arts N. Pavlovich in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2008 she graduates as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, specialising in Land Art.

She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Austria, Germany and Spain. Some of her solo shows are: painting Free Vision, Vienna (2014); Mirror Paitings, Vienna (2010); Green – a Plea for Disappearing Plants, Vienna (2008); The Way - in collaboration with the Botanical Garden, Vienna (2004); Theatrical Garden Workshop, Hetzendorf Park, Vienna (2002); The Town’s Limit, Vienna (2001); Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany (1998); A Tunel under the Balkans, Gabrovo Biennial (1995).

Since 1998 she has been working and living in Vienna, Austria as a freelance artist. She works in the fields of painting, public art, contemporary conceptual art, advertising and theatre.

"Far from my roots, close to myself, creating within the dayly grind, observing and following life, merging the world with art. In my works I like to combine applied and fine art, large and small, near and far, often leaving the walls of the gallery and taking my art amongst the people. So close, so far. We are here, but we are absent. A world gathered in an artist."