Bisrat Shibabaw was born in Addis Ababa in1965. She graduated in 1983 from the Addis Ababa University Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, where she also works as an Instructor. She completed her Master’s Degree at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in Russia.” Moonlight Sonata,” was painted while she listened to Beethoven’s composition of the same title. In this work, Shibabaw envisions night skies within three lunar fields teeming with fluorescent constellations of swarming insects, shooting stars and interlaced tree branches. This multi-sensory installation, illuminated by blacklighting and Beethoven’s music playing softly in the background is a part of “Breaking the Frame: Women Artists in the Harn Collections.” In addition to many solo and group shows in Ethiopia, she also participated in several group exhibitions around the world like at the Harn Museum of Arts, USA (2007), as well as in China and France.
