Ivana ŽIvić

Ivana Živić (1979, Sarajevo) is an artist living and working in Belgrade.

Živić focuses her attention on paintings which are characterised by exploring the interiors submerged underwater in a unique blend of realism, fantasy and montage. Executed with great finesse, the viewer feels enveloped by these spaces populated by a single presence of a swimmer, sometimes joined by another, exploring the inner world of emotions.

Živić studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, where she graduated in 2004 and obtained her MA degree at the same faculty. Since 2006, Živić has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS), and her work has been the subject of 20 solo exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions internationally. Živić is the recipient of the award of the Vladimir Veličković Drawing Fund (2016); the Rotary Club Award (2014); the Diploma of the Vladimir Veličković Drawing Fund (2012); Award for the production of work from the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Fund (2012), and the Diploma of the 2nd Drawing Biennale in Pančevo (2009). She was a resident artist at Cite Internationale des Arts Paris in France (2009) and GLO’ART centre in Lanaken, Belgium (2015)Artist in Residence at Serbian Art Month, Art hub, A...

MA , Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade

solo exhibitions

2024 Rooms made of water, paintings, JU Museum, Budva, Montenegro
2024 Fine Art and Heritage, (curator: Biljana Jotić, solo exhibition with Miodrag Misa Rogan and
Djotdje Stanojevic) Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Serbia
2024 Non-places, paintings, TransformArt Gallery Belgrade, Serbia
2023 Closeness, paintings, Boris Galleria, Paris, France
2023 Say Yes, (solo exhibition with Petar Hranuelli) paintings and sculptures, Gallery Heritage
House, Belgrade, Serbia
2022 Intimacy, paintings, Gallery Radosevic, Belgrade, Serbia
2021 Somniat Libertas, Boris Galleria, Paris, France
2020 Paintings, Lucida Gallery, Belgrade
2019 Paintings, Sales Gallery Belgrade
2018 - Figurae Femine, paintings, NLB Gallery, Pigmalion, Belegrade
2017 - Prize for Drawing 2016 by Vladimir Velickovic's Fund, Chaos Gallery, Belgrade
2017 - Swimmers, paintings, Gallery of Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 - Underwater, paintings and drawings, Drina Galery, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 - Through the water, paintings and installations, Eđšeg Castle, organized by the Cultural Center
of Novi Sad
2016 - The Atmosphere of Underwater Reality, paintings, Art Salon Kočevje, Regional Museum
Kočevje, Slovenia 
2015 - Paintings, Salon 77 Galle...