Vesna Pavlović
Vesna Pavlović (Belgrade, Serbia) obtained her MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University in 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University where she teaches photography and digital media. 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. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She has been featured with a solo presentation at the 12th Istanbul Biennial, and in group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia, NGBK in Berlin, Germany, Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt, Austria, Photographers' Gallery in London, Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, GB, and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkerke, France. Vesna Pavlović is the recipient of Robert Penn Warren Fellowship at Vanderbilt University and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation grant and artist residency in Taos, NM in 2011. Selected publications include: Office Taste, co-authored with Casey Smith, Belgrade, Skart, 2005; An Idyll on the Beach, Belgrade, Samizdat, 2001. Her work is represented by G Fine Art Gallery in Washington, DC and Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN.