Goran Despotovski

Goran Despotovski was born on 13th August 1972 in Vršac, Serbia. He graduated from the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade (1995); he received his bachelor (1999) and master degrees (2003) in painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and acquired the title of the Doctor of Arts - Fine Arts (2018). He has been employed at the same academy since 2004. He was elected a full professor, for the narrower artistic field of Painting in 2019. He is the president of the Union of the Associations of Fine Artists of Vojvodina - SULUV (since 2017). He has exhibited at sixty solo and several collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has received numerous awards in the field of fine arts and authored several projects under the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad: Differences (2005–), Image (2011–), Book (2016), The Space of the Digital Image (2016) and projects within SULUV: SMIC. moving form (2019–), Move in code (2021–), etc.

He graduated from the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade (1995); at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, he completed undergraduate academic (1999) and master’s studies in painting (2003), and acquired the title of Doctor of Arts - Fine Arts (2018). Employed at the same Academy (since 2004), he was elected a full professor, for the artistic field of Painting (since 2019). He is the president of the Union of Fine Artists’ Associations of Vojvodina (SULUV, since 2017).
Professor of: Painting, Digital Painting, and other elective courses within Graduate, Master and Doctoral Studies at Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He has been a member of the management teams at the Academy as the head of the Department of Painting (2012-2018), a member of the Teaching and Scientific Arts Council (2012-2014), a member of the Academy Council (2014-2018), and a member of the Professional Council for Humanities and Arts of the University of Novi Sad (2012–2018).