Bato Bostandzic

Bato Bostandzic was born in Capljina, a small Mediterranean town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a son of a well-known local artist and art professor. Art became his life, and he has lived with the scent of oil paint and canvas all his life. He got his motivation for painting and an early art education from his father. Bato got his first international art award in 1983, and other rewards and recognitions followed. He has actively worked with oil on canvas for more than twenty five years, and he has started working with clay about ten years ago.
Bato has exhibited his work in Europe and California. He has participated in many international juried art shows and workshops in Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro. More importantly, he has proven to be an artist with a big heart since he has participated for many years in annual charity art shows, and he has organized pottery workshops for orphaned children for The International Charity “Duga” in Kulen Vakuf, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
From 1998 to 2007, he lived and worked in Orange County, CA. He co-owned a small studio gallery with one on his fellow artists in Santa Ana Artist Village and participated in monthly art walks.
From 2007 to 2014, Bato lived in Sarajevo, the capital ...

A Brief Summary of Exhibitions Highlights and Workshops in the United States, Germany, and Bosnia & Herzegovina and the region:
- May 2016 Group Show Silicon Valley Open Studios
- Nov. 2015 Juried Show Capitola En Plein Air
- April 2015 Juried Show Le Petite Trianon, San Jose
- Nov. 2014 Juried Show JCC Los Gatos
- April 2014 Individual Show The Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo
- March 2014 Individual Show Town Gallery/Museum in Kotor, Monten.
- November 2013 Individual Show Altenholz/Kiel, Germany
- November 2011, 2012 Group Show Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo
- August 2011 Group Show Han Gallery, Pocitelj, B&H
- July 2011 Interrnational Art Workshop Art Colony, Pocitelj, B&H
- March 2011 Individual Show Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo
- November 2010 Group Show Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo
- February 2010 Group Show Roman Petrovic Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
- January 2010 Individual Show Roman Petrovic Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H
- Nov. and Dec. 2009 Group Shows Collegium Artisticum & Roman Petrovic,
- July 2009 Art Workshop Srebrenik, B&H
- August 2009 Group Show Han Gallery, Pocitelj, B&H
- April 2009 Group Show Collegium Artisticum Gallery, S...