Vesna Pavlović
Vesna Pavlović (Serbia) obtained her MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University in 2007. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, Photographers’ Gallery in London, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkerque, France. She was the award winner at the 40th October Salon in Belgrade, in 2001, for her photographic series Herzlich Willkommen Im Hotel Hyatt Belgrad, April 1999. She is the recipient of numerous grants; most recently, in June 2008, Artist Trust in Seattle, WA, awarded her the GAP Grant for Artists. In the nineties, in Belgrade, she worked closely with the feminist pacifist group Women in Black. Her work is represented in major public and private collections. The nature of Pavlović’s work is collaborative and interdisciplinary. Her projects develop as anthropological studies, analyzing different cultures and their visual representations through particular phenomena. Issues of taste, desire and expectation, the friction of performance, set in different contexts, are prevailing themes in her work. Either presented as a photographic print, or as a projected image within installation, her work challenges the issues of photographic representation, and reveals the layers that constitute the image. Selected publications include: Office Taste, co-authored with Casey Smith, Belgrade, Skart, 2005; An Idyll on the Beach, Belgrade, Samizdat, 2001. She is represented by G Fine Art Gallery in Washington DC.
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