Stimac Goran

BIOGRAPHY:

Goran Štimac was born in 1959, in Rijeka. He graduated Sculpture in Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, 1988. In 1992, he travelled to Vienna, where he enrolled as a visiting student at the Higher School of Applied Arts, Department of Sculpture. His artistic-educational career began in 1996, when he started teaching at the Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Pedagogy. In 2003–2010, he worked as Dean of the Academy of Applied Arts of the University of Rijeka, where he is currently working as a tenured professor.
Goran Štimac has had 50 individual exhibitions of sculptures,
Paintings and drawings, and over 120 group exhibitions, both national and international. He has been honoured with numerous awards and recognitions. His works are exhibited in the Galerije Božidar Jakac, Kostanjevica na Krki(Slovenija), Modern Gallery Zagreb, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, and in the Collection of Croatian Contemporary Sculpture in Slavonski Brod.
Goran Štimac lives and works in Rijeka and Opatija.

Štimac Goran
A.Raspora 24
51410 Opatija
Croatia

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS - selection

2009 Split, Kula Dubrovnik Gallery, Sebastian Gallery, Universe
2010 Veliki Lošinj, Kula Gallery, Lošinj Museum, Hvar pictures, Škorpion Gallery (Palmižana), pictures
2011 Kostanjevica at KRKI, Slovenia, Bozidar Jakac Gallery, sculptures and drawings
2011 Medana, MMMart gallery ŠČUREK,Slovenija , DIALOGS, pictures and sculptures
2012 Rijeka. sculptures "HOBO" Gallery Kortil 28.6 - 19.7.
2014 Rijeka, KORTIL, sculptures "HOBO"
2014 Zagreb, Gliptoteka HAZU, sculptures "Recesija"
2015 Opatija, Art Pavilion "Juraj Šporer" sculpture "Recesija"
2017 Matulji ,Galerijica,instalacion
2017 Umag, MMC Galerija, sculpture "Recesija"2
2018 Czestochowa, Poland, Gallery 113, pictures


AWARDS (selection)

1984. LUKOVDOL, "Goran Spring", 1st Prize for Drawing
1991 ZAGREB, IV. Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Grand Prize of the Modern Gallery of Zagreb
1993. RIJEKA, "Artists of Europa Mediterranea", First Prize for Sculpture
2001. VOLOSKO, "Mandrać", Grand Prix
2008 Biennial of Drawings of Kosovo, Priština, Drawing Prize
2008 Rijeka, Foundation of the University of Rijeka, Art Prize