BIOGRAPHY

CV

born 1983 in Kranj, Slovenia, currently lives in between New York City, Vienna (Austria) and Ljubljana (Slovenia)
and works in photography, video, sound, installation, performance and writing.
2010 graduated MFA in new media, Transart Institute New York-Berlin/Danube University Krems
(mentors Lucien Clergue, France, for photography and Martina Corgnati, Italy, for visual art)
2005 graduated BA (cum laude) psychology, visual art, Webster University Vienna, Austria (completed individual study
of script-writing with scriptwriter Joshua Sinclair, individual study of photography with Herve Massard)
2002 graduated high level IB art program, with academic distinction and special art award, UNIS New York City
member of the Kuenstlerhaus Vienna, Austria (www.k-haus.at), Slovene Writers Association, PEN Club Austria,
Slovene Fine Artists Association, Bildrecht organisation Vienna

Exhibitions:

Over 40 solo exhibitions and over 70 group exhibitions (in Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Philippines, Slovenia, Spain, Serbia, Turkey, USA ).

Awards:

2019 The Best of Ten Years, United Solo Festival New York
2019 selected for Cairo Biennale 2019
2017 Best Performance Art Award, United Solo Festival, New York
2017 Red Carpet Tribute Award 2017, Vienna, Austria
2017 Grand Prix of the 6 th International Fine Arts Festival, Kranj, Slovenia
2017 Beijing International Art Biennale 2017
017 Grant of the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia
2016 SNBA Silver Medal for Photography, Paris, France
2016 award, 5th International Fine Arts Festival Kranj, Slovenia
2016 Kunstlitfaßsäulen, City of Salzburg, Austria
2016 finalist Eligius Schmuckpreis 2016, Salzburg, Austria
2015 selected for Beijing International Art Biennale BIAB 2015
2015 selected in Display of the Centuries – Friedrich Kiesler and Contemporary Art, Austria Culture Forum New York
2014 nominated for Slovenia’s presentation at the Venice Art Biennale 2015
2013 finalist for Hubert Sielecki Video Preis, Kuenstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
2012/13 nominated for Slovenia’s presentation at the Venice Art Biennale 2013
2012 selected for 5th Beijing International Art Biennalle BIAB 2012
2012 finalist K3 International Short Film Festival 2012,Ljubljana
2012 finalist Hubert Sielecki Video Preis, Kuenstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
2011 Pfann Ohman Preis (1 of 4) Vienna, Austria
2011 selected for IPCNY New Prints 2011 exhibition, New York
2010 selected for Queens Museum of Art, New York, Visions of death, New York,
2010 nominated for the International Literary IMPAC Dublin Award 2011, Ireland
2010 Grant of the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia
2010 Vordemberge-Gildenwart Foundation Grant, Switzerland
2010 International poetry contest Castello di Duino finalist, Trieste, Italy
2009 Yearly Limited Edition and yearly card of the Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2009 competition part of the 1st Independent Film Festival, Domžale, Slovenia
2009, Finalist (as Z+E+M) in ID-Consonni open call for public intervention in Sondika, Spain
2008, Artist of the month for June/July of the website of Art Lab, Hilger Gallery, Vienna, Austria 2008,
Third prize at The annual photographic show, May Gallery, St. Louis, USA
2008 Art Critics’ Selection for February 2008, by the Association of the Slovenian Art Critics.
2006 two grants from the Film Foundation of Slovenia
2006 the Čižek award for the best short digital video in 2006 in Slovenia (Naj digič 2006)
2002 UNIS Art Award, New York City
2001-2002 Cooper Union School of Art, New York City grant for selected high-school students

Collections:

Permanent collection the Fortress Kluže Museum, Slovenia;
MOYA Wien Museum of Young Art, Austria.
Spiritual Art collection, Artmark Gallery Vienna, Austria,
International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Salon fuer Kunstbuch, Vienna, Austria
Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pilon’s State Gallery Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
MAK Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Božidar Jakac Regional Museum, Kostanjevica, Slovenia
Webster University Art Collection, St. Louis, USA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, USA

Commisions:

Thermal Temple, Aqua City, BTC Ljubljana
Bergdorf Goodman New York 2013 and 2015
EGU 2015, Vienna
Sava Hotels&Spa
Mayor of Ljubljana
Medicor Izola
Steklarna Hrastnik

Books:

two novels, translated and published in 6 languages published in 6 countries
collection of poetry, translated and published in 3 languages in 3 countries
three books of the artist
photomonography