Maja Strgar Kurecic

Zagreb based artist Maja Strgar Kurecic was born in 1972. She is a fine art photographer and an Associate Professor of photography at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb. She also teach photography at the New Media Design faculty at RIT Croatia (Rochester Institute of Technology). She has been involved in photography for over 25 years. At the beginning of her career, Maja engaged mostly in advertising and reportage photography. The last few years she devoted to projects that fall within the field of abstract photography. She earned international recognition for her recent projects: Other Worlds, Escape Landscapes and Floating Garden that won many international awards. She exhibited photographs on over 60 group and 20 independent exhibitions, held in country and abroad. She is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts) and CPPA (Croatian Press Photographers Association).

PhD in Engineering Sciences, field of Graphic Technology, Digital photography, Faculty of Graphic Arts University of Zagreb, 2007
MSc in Information Science, Multimedia Systems, Web design, Faculty of Organization and Information Technology University of Zagreb, 2001
Bachelor of Science in Graphic Technology, Faculty of Graphic Arts University of Zagreb, 1996

Recent group exhibitions (last 5 years):
2022.
″40th Zagreb Salon - International Exhibition of Photography 2022″, National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia
"Scapes", curated international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
"VIZURA2022 - Reboot", Zagreb Photo Biennial Exhibition, ULUPUH Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
"Canvas International Art Fair", THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, Venice, Italy
2021.
"6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography", FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
"Significant Colour", curated international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
"Flora", SE Center for Photography, juried photography exhibition, Greenville, South Carolina 29601, USA
2020.
"The art of photography", curated international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery Exhibition in Gallery Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
"Feminine / Masculine", curated international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
"Portrait of Croatia 2020", curated group exhibition, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
"14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition", FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
"VIZURA2020 - The Time of Extremes", Zagreb Photo Biennial Exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia
"Art Eco / Forest" - Biennial ULUPUH exh...