Vanja Subotić

Exploring memory, emotion, sensory experience, and visual language, I search for possibilities to create images and forms that I wish to encounter - things I want to see but that do not yet exist.

My work begins by translating experiences into visual form, seeking to locate personal meaning within a broader collective space.

As my artistic process evolves, it pushes the boundaries of language and transcends reality, gradually establishing a personal symbolic system while reconsidering the relationship between drawing and painting as intuitive and contemplative modes of inquiry.

The DOTS Foundation supported my work from December 2021 to May 2023.

I graduated from the High School of Design in Novi Sad and earned both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Solo Exhibitions
• 2025 – Direct Light, Hardwired Gallery, Subotica
• 2024 – Phenomena, Processes and States, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Smederevska Palanka; Atelier 61, Novi Sad
• 2023 – Bare Water / Introduction to the Corrective Unconscious, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad
• 2022 – Daisies, Courtyard Gallery, Subotica
• 2021 – Identity Egg, Contemporary Gallery Subotica
• 2017 – Sonja and Vanja, Skladište Youth Center, Subotica
• 2016 – Between Four Images, Klajn House Gallery, Subotica; As in a Dream, Kunst Cafe, Subotica
• 2015 – Hair, Izba Gallery, Novi Sad; Drawings and Books, Tattoo Spot Chicken Leg, Novi Sad
• 2013 – Between Words and Images, Multimedia Center, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad
• 2012 – Gallery Likovni Susret, Subotica
• 2011 – Short Biomechanical Memories, Baš Kuća Gallery, Subotica; Works from Lost Time, Studio 11, Subotica


Group Exhibitions (selected)
• 2025/26 – Winter Stories 3, DOTS Gallery, Belgrade
• 2023 – Winter Stories, Summertime, Connecting the Future, DOTS Gallery, Belgrade; Amsterdam
• 2022 – 67th Annual Exhibition, SULUV, Novi Sad
• 2021 – New Members Exhibition, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad
• 2020 – Artist’s Imprint, Beti Ford Gallery, Belgrade
• 2018 – Osten Biennial of Drawing, Skopje; Fo...