Iva Simcic
CURRICULUM VITAE
/EDUCATION/
2009– 2016 PhD Theory of Arts and Media, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2003–2005 MFA in Painting/Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA
1997–2000 BFA in Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
1995–1997 The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
/SOLO EXHIBITIONS/
2017 Art, Politics and other Stories, Gallery Zvono, Sarajevo, BiH
2014 Think Left, Modern Gallery Budva, Montenegro
2013 Think Left, City Gallery Bihać, BiH, curated by Silvija Dervišefendić
2010 Acedia tristitia, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH
2009 3:2, Gallery Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 Sweet and Sour, Organic Art Life – 25th International Sarajevo Winter Festival, Preporod Gallery, Sarajevo, BiH
2008 Think Pink, Cultural Center Bol, Croatia
2008 Think Pink, Roman Petrović Gallery, Sarajevo, BiH
2006 Divination Sevdah, BELEF 06 – Belgrade Summer Festival, Belgrade, Serbia / with Damir Imamović Trio
2001 Buzz, The Lab, Chicago, USA
2000 Things, GBU Gallery, Chicago, USA
/GROUP EXIBITIONS/
2019 Invictus, Global Livingston Institute, Entusi, Uganda
2019 (Dis)connections, 35th International Sarajevo Winter Festival – Noise and Fury, Silk Road Art, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
2018 Flat Earth (Ravna ploča) – 26th Slavonian Biennale, The Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, Croatia, curated by Valentina Radoš
2018 Drawing Communication, Gallery of Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Naha, Japan
2018 Productive work - What is that supposed to be?, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria, curated by Anamarija Batista
2018 unRavelling, Black Ball Projects Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Ana Wolovick/Brian Wondergem
2017 Face to Face (Licem u lice), Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton collection, Bosnian CulturalCentar, Sarajevo
2017 Borders of Visibility (Granice vidljivosti) – 25th Slavonian Biennale, Požega City Museum, Croatia, curated by Valentina Radoš
2017 Globalocation, University of Texas, Austin, USA
2017 Globalocation, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
2017 Meta Journey, City Gallery Bihać, BiH
2017 Meta Journey, 33rd International Sarajevo Winter Festival – Silk Road Art, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
2016 Borders of Visibility (Granice vidljivosti) – 25th Slavonian Biennale, The Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, Croatia, curated by Valentina Radoš
2016 Globalocation, RedLine, Denver, Colorado, USA
2016 Rally ‘Round the Flag of Social Justice, RedLine, Denver, Colorado, USA, curated by Linda Weintraub
2016 The Creators, CK Charlama, Sarajevo, BiH, curated by Jusuf Hadžifejzović
2016 Zeitgeist, Moholo Live House, Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Zeitgeist, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Art & Resistance, Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture Exhibition Gallery, Bethlehem, Palestine
2016 Soul Drift, 32nd International Sarajevo Winter Festival – SOUL/ Soul of the Artist – Soul of the City, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
2015 Part A – Part B, Black Ball Projects Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Ana Wolovick,
2015, 12 x 12 x 12, Black Ball Projects Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Harriet Salmon/Jason Tomme/Ana Wolovick
2015 Once, There Was a Traveler (Jednom jedan putnik), Brod Regional Museum, Slavonski Brod, Croatia, curated by Valentina Radoš
2014 Once, There Was a Traveler (Jednom jedan putnik) – 24th Slavonian Biennale, The Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, Croatia, curated by Valentina Radoš
2014 Decoding (Dekodiranja), The National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro, curated by Branka Vujanović/Jonathan Blackwood
2013 Mostar Grand Prix 2013, 16th Annual Drawing Exhibition, Cultural Center Gallery, Mostar, BiH
2013 Initiation in a Saloon of Celebrations (Inicijacija u salonu za proslave), Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH, curated by Jusuf Hadžifejzović
2012 Academy in Time: 40th Anniversary of ALU (Akademija u vremenu: 40 godina ALU), Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH
2012 Intime/Intimacies, Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH, curated by Branka Vujanović/ Jon Blackwood
2012 Drawing Communication, Gallery of Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Naha, Japan
2012 Collegium artisticum 2012, Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH
2012 Interactions – 45th Salon of Herceg Novi (Interakcije – 45. Hercegnovski salon), Gallery Josip-Bepo Benković, Herceg Novi, Monte Negro, curated by Ljiljana Karadžić
2011 Small works 2011 (Mali format 2011) Gallery Roman Petrovic, Sarajevo, BiH
2011 Video Salon 5, Curatorial Rebound Project – 6. Pravo ljudski Film Festival, Duplex/10m2,Sarajevo, BiH
2011 Drawing Communication, Gallery of Nagoya Zokei University, Aichi, Japan
2011 Mostar Grand Prix 2011, 14th Annual Drawing Exhibition, Cultural Center Gallery, Mostar, BiH
2011 Drawing Communication, Gallery of Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Naha, Japan
2011 Acquisitions: 10 years UGBIH 2001–2011 (Otkupi: 10 godina u UGBIH 2001-2011), The Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, curated by Meliha Husedžinović
2011 Krieg. Kunst. Krise, KulturKontakt Austria, Galerie ArtPoint, Wien, Austria, curated by Elio Krivdić
2011 Emporio drangularium, CK Charlama, Sarajevo, BiH, curated by Jusuf Hadžifejzović
2010 namaTRE.ba 4 project, Academy of Fine Arts Trebinje, Trebinje, BiH, curated by Mladen Bundalo/Igor Bošnjak
2010 ObjektivObjective, Kuršumli medresa, Sarajevo, BiH, curated by Silvia Dervišefendić
2010 Academy of Fine Artists Sarajevo – The Faculty Exhibition, Gallery Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH
2010 Potential part of the Project Subdokumenti, Skenderija, Sarajevo, BiH, curated by Jusuf Hadžifejzović
2010 Krieg. Kunst. Krise, Kaiserliche Hofburg zu Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, curated by Elio Krivdić
2009 Small works 2009 (Mali format 2009) Galerija Roman Petrovic, Sarajevo, BiH
2009 Women Personally (One lično), Huizer Museum, Huizer, Netherlands
2009 The Kick (Udarac) Multimedia Project, Tončićeva ulica, Split, Croatia
2009 Video – Salon 4, Curatorial Rebound Project – Contemporary Video Art, Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo, BiH
2009 Private and Public (Privatno i javno), atelier Vučković, Široki Brijeg, BiH
2009 Video Pyramid, Silvershed Space, New York, USA
2009 One Gaze at BiH Painting (Jedan pogled na slikarstvo Bosne i Hercegovine), Kuršumli medresa, Sarajevo, BiH
2009 Grand Prix Mostar 2009, 12th Annual Drawing Exhibition, Cultural Center Gallery, Mostar, BiH
2009 Youth Salon 2009, Gallery Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH
2009 Video Pyramid, Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, New York, USA, curated by Ana Wolovick/Mariah Robertson
2008 One Person, One Space (Jedan čovjek, jedan prostor), Kuršumli medresa, Sarajevo, BiH
2008 Models of TRANSformation (Modeli TRANSformacije), Gallery Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH, curated by Asja Mandić
2008 Collegium artisticum 2008, Gallery Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH
2008 Women Personally (One lično), Zenica City Museum, Zenica, BiH, curated by Branka Vujanović
2008 Women Personally (One lično), Gallery Enver Krupić, Bihać, BiH, curated by Branka Vujanović
2007 Free Frisbee, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Youth Salon 2007, Gallery Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH
2006 Free Frisbee, Frisbee Art Fair 2006, Miami, USA, curated by Anat Ebgl and Jen DeNike
2006 Restrictions ((O)graničenja), SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, curated by Asja Mandić
2006 Summer Salon, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, USA, curated by Kate Werble
2006 Circular States of Boredom in the Face of World Domination, Circus of Books Gallery,New York, USA
2005 Video Pleasures of the East, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, USA, curated by Mariah Robertson
2005 MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
2005 Works on Paper, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
2003 First Year MFA Student Exhibition, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
2003 For Počitelj, Roman Petrović Gallery, Sarajevo, BiH
2001 For Počitelj, Art Colony Počitelj, Počitelj, BiH
1999 Print Off, GBU Gallery, Chicago, USA
1998 Around the Coyote Art Festival, Chicago, USA
1996 First Year Program Show, Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago, USA
/AWARDS / GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS /RESIDENCIES/
2018 Grant for the artist project Measure for Measure awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Kanton Sarajevo
2018 Artist in Residence, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria (January 05th-31st)
2012 Foundation for Music, Drama and Visual Arts Grant for the artist project Think Left
2012 Award for the Best Painting 2012, Collegium artisticum 2012, Sarajevo, BiH
2011 Grand Prix for the Best Drawing – Mostar Grand Prix 2011, 14th Annual Drawing Exhibition, Mostar, BiH
2009 Award Private and Public for the best-exhibited art piece – Private and Public Exhibition, Široki Brijeg, BiH
2009 3rd Award for the Best Drawing – Mostar Grand Prix 2009, 12th Annual Drawing Exhibition, Mostar, BiH
2009 Foundation for Music, Drama and Visual Arts Grant for the artist project Acedia tristitia
2008 1st Award for the best-exhibited art piece – Models of TRANSformation, Sarajevo, BiH
2004 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Award in Studio Arts
2004 Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship
2004 Yale University Scholarship
2003 Yale University Scholarship
2000 The Illinois Art Council Artist Fellowship Award in Visual Arts
/PUBLISHED TEXTS/
Simčić, Iva (2014), ”Političnost umjetnosti Balkana: Blut & Honig/ Zukunft ist am Balkan (Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans)”, Sophos – A young researchers’ journal, No. 7. Sarajevo: Scientific & Research Incubator (ZINK), Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo /ACADEMIA ANALITICA Society for Development of Logic and Analytic Philosophy in Bosnia and Heryegovina, pp. 139–158.
ISSN: 1840-3859 (Index Copernicus Internationale - EBSCO – CEEOL)
Simčić, Iva (2014), ”Moć/znanje i reprezentacija: Entartete Kunst /Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung (Degenerate Art/ The Great German Art Exhibition)”, Motrišta – Časopis za kulturu, znanost i društvena pitanja, No. 75–76. Mostar: Matica hrvatska, pp. 107–118.
ISSN: 1512-5475 (CEEOL)
Simčić, Iva (2013), ”Kolektivizam kao otpor i kao egzodus”, AM (Art + Media) – Journal of Art and Media Studies, No. 4, Beograd: Orion Art/ Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, pp. 69–72. ISSN: 2217-9666 / ISSN: 2406-1654. UDK 7.01:316.774 (ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, DOAJ, and in The List of Scientific Journals Categorization of Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia
Simčić, Iva (2013), ”Think Left”, Art + Media – Journal of Art and Media Studies, No. 4, Beograd: Orion Art/Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, pp. 108–109. ISSN: 2217-9666 / ISSN: 2406-1654. UDK 7.01:316.774 (ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, DOAJ, and in The List of Scientific Journals Categorization of Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia
Simčić, Iva (2012), ”Političnost fikcije kroz destabilizaciju jezika”, AM (Art + Media) – Journal of Art and Media Studies, No. 2, Beograd: Orion Art/Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, pp. 70–73. ISSN: 2217-9666 / ISSN: 2406-1654. UDK 7.01:316.774 (ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, DOAJ, and in The List of Scientific Journals Categorization of Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia (recenzirano)
Simčić, Iva (2010), Braco Dimitrijević: Under This Stone There is a Monument to the Victims of War and Cold War, Ljubljana: The Peace Institute
http://rci.mirovni-institut.si/Docs/2010%20ASO%20student%20work%204.pdf >
Simčić, Iva (2010), “Transformacija mitskog govora u tekst popularne kulture: Mit o dr Dabiću”, Oslobođenje, Nezavisni BiH dnevnik, Sarajevo, July 28th – August 2nd.
Simčić, Iva (2010), ”Kritika suvremenih ideologija kustoskih praksi: 29. Salon mladih – Salon revolucije”, Motrišta No. 53, Mostar: Matica hrvatska, pp.103–113. ISSN: 1512-5475 (CEEOL)
Simčić, Iva (2010), ”Transformacija mitskog govora u tekst popularne kulture: Mit o dr Dabiću”, Status – magazin za političku kulturu i društvena pitanja, No. 14, pp. 321–327. ISSN: 1512-8679 (CEEOL)
http://status.ba/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/status14.pdf
/SEMINARS / CONFERENCES / ARTIST TALKS/
2017 Artist talk, Art Gallery Polet, Belgrade, Serbia (September 12th)
2014 Conference The Scientific Research Incubator ZINK, The University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy; (May 9th)
Colloquium ”Politicality of Balkan Art» https://ziink.wordpress.com/aktivnosti/
https://ziink.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/720141.pdf
2011 Conference Questioning traditional dynamics in re-defining cultural identities in South Eastern Europe, The Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (January 14th–16th)
Paper “Braco Dimitrijević: Under This Stone There is a Monument to the Victims of War and Cold War” presented by Jasmina Gavrankapetanović-Redžić:
< http://rci.mirovni-institut.si/conference.html >
<http://rci.mirovni-institut.si/studies.html>
2005 Visiting Artist, New York Studio Program, New York, USA
/BIBLIOGRAPHY/
Huber, M. “Art: work beyond the hour”, 07.03.2018. <https://kurier.at/kultur/kunst-arbeit-jenseits-des-stundenzaehlens/400060607>
Agić, J. “Uništavanje umjetnosti je primitivizam u iskonskom obliku”, Aljazeera Balkans, 25.06.2017 < http://balkans.aljazeera.net/vijesti/unistavanje-umjetnosti-je-primitivizam-u-iskonskom-obliku> (interview)
Loinjak, I. (2017), “Artistički aktivizam”, Vijenac, February 2th, No. 598, pp. 20-21.
KulturKontakt magazine (2014), KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, Spring pp. 22, 25.
Vujanović, Branka (2014), ”Dekodiranja. Aspekti umjetničkog djelovanja u naježenoj stvarnosti”, July 29th, http://zmijskijezik.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/dekodiranja-aspekti-umjetnickog-djelovanja-u-najezenoj-stvarnosti-slucaj-sarajevo/.
AM (Art + Media) – Journal of Art and Media Studies (2013), Artist portfolio, No. 4, Belgrade: Orion Art/University of Arts in Belgrade, pp. 104–107.
Dervišefendić, Silvija (2013), “Umjetnica kao zaboravljeni junak u nostalgičnoj potrazi za minulim vremenom u eri ekonomije slobodnog tržišta”, Motrišta – Časopis za kulturu, znanost i društvena pitanja, No. 71–72, Mostar: Matica hrvatska, pp. 114–117. ISSN: 1512-5475 (CEEOL)
Blackwood, Jon (2012), “Dispozicije intime”, Oslobođenje – Kun Sarajevo, September 20th, pp. 33.
Blackwood, Jon (2012), “Dispozicije intime”, catalog for the exhibition Intime/Intimacies, JU Collegium artisticum, pp. 11–14.
KulturKontakt magazine (2011), KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, Summer, pp. 26, 29.
Soucek, A. (2011), “Krieg.Kunst.Krise – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Bosnien-Herzegowina“, http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/276047, 04.05.
Dabić, M. & Stajić, O. (2011),"Die Existenz des bosnischen Künstlers ist ein Wunder", http://dastandard.at/1302516132058/Ausstellungstipp-Die-Existenz-des-bosnischen-Kuenstlers-ist-ein-Wunder, 14.04.
Lukić, Neva. (2010),“Zamisao diktira uporabu medija”, Vijenac, January 28th, No. 415, pp. 23. (interview)
Mandić, Asja (2008), “Iva Simčić: Život u ružičastom”, Motrišta, No. 42–43, Mostar: Matica hrvatska, pp. 143–145. ISSN: 1512-5475 (CEEOL)
Šešić Dragičević, Milena (2006), “Production of New and Hybrid Cultural/Artistic Forms”, Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe: Cases of Good Practice on Intercultural Dialogue.
Kamenica, Edina (2006), “Grah koji govori više od ljudi”, Oslobođenje Sarajevo, August 9th, p. 22.
K.R. (2006),“Gde nemir traži utočište”, Danas Belgrade, August 3rd, pp. 26.
Kamenica, Edina (2005), "Viseće žene visoko uzdignute Ive Simčić", Oslobođenje – Pogled Sarajevo, Novembar 5th, pp. 38.
Yale University Art Gallery, “22:18:34 02 MAR 2005”, Palimpsest – Yale Literary and Arts magazine, 2005. pp. 69.
/TEACHING EXPERIENCE/
2019-present Associate Professor Painting/Drawing, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo
2014-2019 Assistant Professor, Painting/Drawing, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo
2010-2014 Elected Senior Teaching Assistant, Painting/Drawing, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo
2007-2010 Elected Teaching Assistant, Painting/Drawing, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo
2005 Elected Teaching Assistant – Lithography – Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
2004 Elected Teaching Assistant – Intermediate Drawing – Yale
University School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA