Zoran Banovic

Zoran Banovic graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He completed postgraduate studies in the Department of Graphics in 1999. He is actively engaged in the fields of drawing, painting, graphics, and graphic design. He is a regular professor at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka.

My art, loosely speaking, remains in the domain of the landscape, but with a completely different treatment of everything that enters into one's field of vision. Indeed, in some works, the configuration of the natural environment may be implicitly discerned, but only with the outlines that could be painted in the field of activated sensors of one's internal experience. Everything that can be subordinated to visual play has its worthy significance and finds its equivalent in the artistic sign on which the painting is based. Light is an infinite field, a comprehensive thought with which, as its only companion, I venture into the external world to offer my understanding of everything I have faced and what has been offered for artistic processing.

The Expansion of the Biomorphic:
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1992-1999 Master of Fine Arts Belgrade, Serbia


2020 Special Commendation By The Jury Of The 3Rd International Biennial Of Works On Paper Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2019 Prize "Small Seal", Gallery "Graphics Collective", Belgrade Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
2017 Special Honour Of The First International Triennial Of Graphic Arts Livno Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2007 Design Award For Wall Calendar - Atlantic "Positive, Negative" Novi Sad, Serbia, Serbia
2007 First Prize For The Graphic Art, International Competetion For The Graphic Arts, Gallery Skc Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
2007 Prize "Big Seal", Gallery "Graphics Collective" Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
2005 Prize Of The Ministry Of Culture Of Serbia, Gallery "Graphics Collective", Belgrade Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
2003 Ulus Golden Needle Award For Graphics Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
1999 Prize Of The Ministry Of Culture Of Serbia, Gallery "Graphics Collective", Belgrade Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
1998 Award For Graphics "Radovan Kragulj", Modus Vivendi Foundation Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia & Herzegovina
1997 Prize Of The Ministry Of Culture Of Serbia, Gallery "Graphics Collective" Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
1996 Đorđe Andrejev...

Since 1992, he has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in the country and abroad (Serbia, Japan, Canada, China, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia, etc.). He has organized twelve solo exhibitions to date.

Zoran Banovic has received fourteen national and international awards and commendations in the fields of graphics and graphic design.