Zeljko Uremovic

Željko Uremović was born in 1957 in Vinkovci and grew up in a small village called Andrijaševci in eastern Croatia.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb in 1982 in the class of Professor Raoul Goldoni.

He started to hold exhibitions in 1985. He has held over 50 independent exhibitions in Croatia, Norway, the Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria.

During 1988 to 1991 he lived and worked in Germany and France. In Germany, he worked and exhibited in Hanover, Karlsruhe, Köln, Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen and Reutlingen. He worked on interior design and as an associate in the gallery in Hildesheim and Hanover.

During the exhibition Grand Prix International d´Art Plastique held in 1990 in Nice, France, he was awarded for originality of technique and work of art.

Željko Uremović is a member of the International Christian Media Commission (ICMC) since the date of its foundation in Sheffield, UK, in 1991. He participated in several international conferences of artists - Christians (Austria 1993, Hungary 1995 and Croatia 1999). Since 1987 he has worked as an independent artist.

For some time he worked as a professor of fine arts in high school, and fro...

1982 - Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb