Biography

Portrait of Dara Maillard in her studio

Dara Maillard lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2002, she moved to Geneva in 2007. She received her BA in 2023 and her MA in 2025 from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. In 2025, she was awarded a grant from the American Foundation for Bulgaria, in collaboration with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York.

Current and upcoming exhibitions include:

"the red from your lips and fingers", the artist's first solo exhibition at Anna Helwing gallery in Zurich, opening on April 23.2026 (more info on annahelwing.com).

"Carte Blanche: Works on Paper", a group exhibition at Espace L gallery in Geneva, opened on March 12.2026, with a talk with curator Danniel Tostes and the artists on Wednesday, April 22.2026 (more info on espacel.net).