biography

Zorica Čolić (born 1977 in Serbia) is an artist using eclectic mix of media and styles, such as: sculpture, video, audio, text, Arte Povera poetics and symbolic associations, conceptualist connections and appropriated nonart materials. Her art connects with artistic practice of those contemporary artists that have diverse, layered and fugitive approach, refusing to adopt the conventional role of the artist, continuously adapting and cross-referencing different positions of activity.

The installations and interventions she creates offer an intuitive response to an environment, drawing attention to, and creating an awareness of the contemporary issues. They often confront the audience with the uncanny, hidden, frightful experiences that are part of everyday life, but usually, rather left concealed and unspoken. Her goal is to transgress the commonplace in order to expose unease with the ordinary giving it an existential dimension. Having political involvement that is not too literal or direct, her work relates to the notions of ‘political poetry’.

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Education:
Since October 2010: PhD Interdisciplinary studies, Theory of Art and Media, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

2006-2008 Masters of Fine Arts in Electronic Integrated Arts, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, New York, USA | teaching assistantship grant
2005. International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria | photography class of professor Katharina Sieverding | grant from KulturKontakt, Austria
1998-2002 Art Academy Novi Sad, Serbia, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Solo exhibitions:

• 2012. "Interval", multichannel video installation, Art gallery Kulturni Centar, Belgrade
• 2009. “GAP”, multimedia installation, Gallery of Cultural Center Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2008. “Don’t forget to die”, thesis show, The Schein-Joseph International Museum Of Ceramic Art, New York, USA
• 2007. “Fail more, fail better”, eight channel video installation, Smart Wall gallery, New York, USA
• 2007. “Black Wednesday”, installation in a financial trade room, Business School at Alfred University, New York, USA
• 2006. “Furrow”, video installation, Smart Wall gallery, New York, USA
• 2003. “MEMENTO MORI”, photo installation, Gallery of Cultural Center Dom Omladine, Belgrade
• 2002. “I’m nobody! Who are you?”, photographs, Student Cultural Center Gallery, Kragujevac, Serbia
• 2002. "On the edge", ambient shows, Student Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  

Selected group exhibitions:

• "Scenarios about Europe", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
•  “Chopped and Streched”, Drift Station Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
• "Algebra", ITS-Z1, Belgrade, Serbia
• Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos award finalists show, Zvono gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
• Henkel Art.Award retrospective exhibition, Žitomlin, (Mikser festival), Belgrade, Serbia
• "Presences" , REX, Belgrade, Serbia, 2010
•  25th Nadežda Petrović Memorial, Čačak, Serbia
• "Update" , o3one gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
• "Real Presence", workshop in Venice, 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009
• Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos award finalists show, part of the regional project Young Visual Artists Awards (YVAA), Kontekst gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009
• "Behind the barrier", Fotogalerie im Grazer Rathaus, Graz, Austria
• "Blind date", Galery of Contemporary art, Pančevo, Serbia
• Alfred University's 2008 MFA Graduates, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China, 2008
• Mantua video Festival, Ballaghaderreen, Ireland, 2008
• Fugitive Projects, 60 Second Southern Video Festival, Nashville, Tennessee, 2007
• CEPA Gallery Members’ Exhibition, Buffalo, New York, USA, 2007
• “Real Presence“, international workshop, Museum “25. Maj” Belgrade, Serbia, 2002-2005
• Forty years of the Cultural Center Dom Omladine, Belgrade, retrospective exhibition, 2005
• “Negotiation” 25 years since the first feminist festival in Belgrade Student Cultural Center, 2005
• International Biennial of Miniature, Gornji Milanovac Cultural Center, 2004
• "Body works", Center for Visual Culture Golden Eye, Novi Sad, 2003
• “ID N DI” , ‘Aprilski susreti’, Student Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade, 2003
• “Leap into the Void”, Zvono Gallery, Belgrade and Center for Visual Culture Golden Eye Novi Sad, 2003
• “Art in Vojvodina at the end of XX and the beginning of XXI century”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad

Artworks in public spaces:

• "LOOSE PUMP" , neon signs in the high school gymnasium, Čačak, Serbia, 2010
•  “From the Canal through Me and Back”, site-specific installation, in front of IUAV, Venice, during the “Real Presence” residency at 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009
• "Black Wednesday", installation in a financial trade room, Business School at Alfred University, New York, USA
• "Congestive Failure" , video installations in the ventilation space and kitchen, Alfred University, New York, USA
• "Absent minded", installation in Alte Saline (old salt factory), Salzburg, Austria, 2005

Selected publications:

• Miško Šuvaković, Dragomir Ugren, “European art contexts in 20 century in Vojvodina”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad 2008
• Erica Eaton, Tara Smelt, “Liminal: Spaces-In-Between Visible and Invisible”, Evolutionary Girls Press, Rochester, NY 2007 (ISBN 978-0-61-51-5117-5)
• Irina Subotić, Jasmina Čubrilo, Svetlana Mladenov, Suzana Vuksanović, “MADE IN NOVI SAD – contemporary art scene”, Gallery Tableau, Novi Sad 2006
• ILLY Words “New Consciousness” magazine number 13, Trieste, Italy 2005. Distributed at Venice Biennial (registration N. 966 DEL 30-6-1997)
• UG FIA art group, “Life” art calendar, Publikum, Belgrade, Serbia; exhibited in 2002 in Belgrade and in 2004 One Club Gallery, New York, USA