BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY AND ARTISTIC ACTIVITY

 

Graduated and received her M. A. from Department of Sculpture (in the class of professors Alija Kučukalić and Kosta Angeli-Radovani) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina,. Took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout former Yugoslavia, Europe and Canada. Participated in visual art colonies. Recipient of many visual arts awards. From 1990 until 1991 costumography assistant in Narodno Pozorište (National Theatre) in Sarajevo. From 1991 until 1992 curator in Dom Mladih Art Gallery in Sarajevo. Member of DLUS (Society of Visual Artists of Sarajevo), ULUBiH (Bosnia and Hercegovina Visual Artists Association) and ULUS (Serbia Visual Artists Association). From 1993 lives in Toronto, Canada.

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AWARDS

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2001 -- Grand-Prix at Etobicoke Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario

1991 – Award for Sculpture, 10th Yugoslav Bieannale of Small Plastics, Gallery of Cultural Center of ‘Miško Kranjec’, Murska Sobota, Slovenia

1991 – Grand-Prix of the Exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1987 – Montenegro State Cultural Award for Sculpture, 21st Salon of Contemporary Yugoslav Art, Art Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje

1986 – Award for Sculpture, Collegium Artisticum, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

 

 

 

 

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS

 

 

1989 -- Artist-in-Residence, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France

1988 -- Artist-in-Residence, Počitelj, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1987 – Artist-in-Residence, Bihać, Bosnia and Hercegovina

 

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2023 -  Gallery of Serbian Heritage Academy, Toronto (Summer by the Lake) 

2019 – Gallery of Serbian Heritage Academy, Toronto (Travelers, text Milenko Mandić)

2017 – Gallery of Serbian Heritage Academy, Toronto (Blue Palimpsest, text Milenko Mandić)

1996 – Canadian Film Institute, Toronto

1993 – Gallery 7, Yorkville, Toronto (curator Susan Babe)

1991 – Dom Omladine Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia (curator Kosara Stefanović, text Kosta Bogdanović)

1990 – Museum of XIV Winter Olympic Games, Sarajevo (curator Edin Numankadić, text Kosta Bogdanović)

1990 – Obalne Galerije Piran, Loža Gallery, Koper, Slovenia (curator Andrej Medved, text Nurmina Kurspahić, Kosta Bogdanovic and Aleksander Bassin)

1989 – Dom Mladih Gallery, Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina (custos Inge Radoje)

1988 – Novi Hram (New Temple) Gallery, Sarajevo Bosnia and Hercegovina (curator Branka Perišić, text Branka Perišić)

1985 – Zvono (Caffe-Gallery), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 -- Portraits of Resilience, AGO, Toronto, Ontario

2020 -- COVID-19 Portraits III, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2019 -- Art Salon, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2018 -- Art Salon, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2017 – Art Salon, Canada 150, Cultural Centre Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia

2017 -- Art Salon, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2016 -- Art Salon, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2015 -- Art Salon, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2015 – Art Salon, North Liberty Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2015 – Art Salon, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2014 – Art Salon, SHA Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2014 – ‘Dom’ (Home), SHA Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2013 – Art Salon, Praxis Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2013 – Art Salon, Consulate General of Serbia, Toronto, Ontario

2005 – ‘Synergy”, Art Salon, Toronto, Ontario

2003 – Art Salon, New Works of Twelve Canadian Artists of Yugoslav Heritage, Praxis Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2002 – Art Salon, New Works of Twelve Canadian Artists of Yugoslav Heritage, Embassy of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Ottawa, Ontario

2001 -- Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario

2000 -- Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario

2000 – Sculpture and Installation of the Last Twenty Years, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Sarajevo

2000 -- ‘Singidunum’, Art Salon, Annual Juried Exhibition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1999 -- Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario

1990 --‘Singidunum’, Art Salon, Annual Juried Exhibition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1998 -- ‘Singidunum’, Art Salon, Annual Juried Exhibition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1997 -- ‘Singidunum’, Art Salon, Annual Juried Exhibition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1996 -- ‘Singidunum’, Art Salon, Annual Juried Exhibition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1995 – Annual Open Juried Art Show, Society of Canadian Artists (juried by Olga Korper, Kjell Orrling and Zbigniev Pospieszinsky), John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1995 – Serbian Artists in Canada, Serbian Heritage Museum, Windsor, Ontario

1995 – ‘Singidunum’, Art Salon, Annual Juried Exhibition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1994 – The Works, Mutual Group Centre, Toronto, Ontario

1994 – Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario

1993 – Annual Art Exhibition, Dominion Gallery, Montreal, P. Q.

1993 – Group Exhibition, Gallery 7, Toronto, Ontario

1993 – Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario

1992 -- ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1992 -- 10th Yugoslav Biennale of Small Plastics, Gallery of Cultural Center of ‘Miško Kranjec’, Murska Sobota, Slovenia

1991 -- 23th Salon of Contemporary Yugoslav Art, ‘November 13’, Blue Court, Art Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro

1991 -- ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1990 – ‘3x3x3’, Yugoslav Art Critics Selection, Paviljom Cvijeta Zuzorić (Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavillion), Belgrade Serbia

1990 -- ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1989 – 1th Biannale of Yugoslav Miniature Art, Heritage Museum, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia

1989 -- Exhibition of the Members of DLUS (Society of Visual Artists of Sarajevo), Dubrovnik, Croatia

1989 -- Exhibition of the Members of DLUS (Society of Visual Artists of Sarajevo), Podgorica, Montenegro

1989 -- Exhibition of the Members of DLUS (Society of Visual Artists of Sarajevo), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1989 -- 5th Biennale of Yugoslav Sculpture, Pančevo, Serbia (curators Svetlana Mladenov and Sava Stepanov)

1989 – ‘Jugoslovenska Dokumenta 89’, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1989 -- ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1988 – Exhibition of the Members of ULUBiH, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1988 – ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1988 – Salon Mladih (Young Artists Salon), Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1987 – 50 Works of Art, Members of DLUS, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1987 – 13 Authors, Dom Kulture, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1987 – 21th Salon of Contemporary Yugoslav Art, ‘November 13’, Blue Court, Art Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro

1987 – 8th Yugoslav Biennale of Small Plastics, Cultural Center, Grand Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia

1987 – 8th Yugoslav Biennale of Small Plastics, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1987 – 8th Yugoslav Biennale of Small Plastics, Gallery of Cultural Center of ‘Miško Kranjec’, Murska Sobota, Slovenia

1987 – 4th Biennale of Yugoslav Sculpture, Pančevo, Serbia

1987 – ‘Jugoslovenska Dokumenta 87’, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1987 - ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1986 - ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), ‘Cvijeta Zuzoric’ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

1986 – ‘Collegium Artisticum’, Exhibition of the members of ULUBiH (Visual Artists Association of Bosnia and Hercegovina), Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1985 – ‘Skok u Stranu’ (Bouncing Aside), Likovna Galerija (Art Gallery), Zenica

1986 – ’40 Years of ULUBiH’, Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo

1986 – Exhibition of the members of DLUS (Society of Visual Artists of Sarajevo), Art Gallery, Dubrovnik

1985 – ‘Skok u stranu’(Bouncing Aside), Umjetnička Galerija BiH (National Art Gallery), Sarajevo (curator Nermina Kurspahić)

1984 – ‘Zajedno’ (Together), Gallery of RU Djuro Djaković, Sarajevo

1983 – ‘Zajedno’ (Together), Gallery of RU Djuro Djaković, Sarajevo

1982 – ‘Zajedno’ (Together), Gallery of Dom Kulture Studentski Grad, Belgrade

1982 -  ‘Zajedno’ (Together), Gallery of RU Djuro Djaković, Sarajevo

1981 – ‘Zajedno’ (Together), Gallery of RU Djuro Djaković, Sarajevo

 

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