Jelena DURIC
BIO
Jelena Đurić was born in 1978 in Niš.
She obtained a Master’s Degree in painting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2005 in the class of professor Milan Blanuša. Upon completing the studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, she began creating a series of figurative paintings (a series of paintings: ‘Ring’, ‘Greek Mythology’, and ‘Greek Figure as a Modern Symbol’). Obtaining a Master’s Degree marked the beginning of her exploration of the field of abstract art (a series of paintings and drawings: ‘Affects’, ‘Reaction’, ‘Dreamers’ and ‘Duality’).
Since 2001 she has been active in the art scene and has taken part in numerous solo exhibitions in galleries: 2002, ‘Kolarac’, Belgrade, ‘Paviljon’, Niš; 2005, ‘Art Klinika’, Novi Sad; 2006, Gallery ‘ULUV’, Novi Sad; 2009, City Gallery ‘Mostovi Balkana’, Kragujevac; 2012, ‘Vaedro Arte’, Madrid; 2014, ‘Prodajna Galerija Beograd’, Belgrade; 2015, ‘Gallery of Contemporary Art’, Pančevo; 2016, ‘Progres’, Belgrade, Student Cultural Centre ‘Fabrika’, Novi Sad; 2017, ‘Mali Likovni Salon’, Novi Sad.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions: 2002, Student Cultural Center ‘Beograd’, ‘Real Presence’, the authorial project of Biljana Tomić – the international meetings of academies in the Museum of 25th of May; 2003, ‘The Exhibition of Yugoslav Drawing’, Požega, The Gallery of Contemporary Art ‘Srbija’, Niš, The 7th International Biennial of Miniature, Gornji Milanovac; 2004, Gallery ‘Paviljon’, Niš; 2006, ‘The 35th Novi Sad Salon’, Novi Sad, ‘NAF’ Philip Morris, Niš and Belgrade; 2007, The International Biennial ‘In Light of Milena’, Požarevac, II Bienal de Artes Plasticas y Visuals, Madrid; 2008, Art in Vojvodina Today ‘The Painting of State – the State of Painting’, the Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad, ‘The Abstract Painting in Serbia after 2000’, Belgrade, Niš, Novi Sad, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris; 2011, Gallery MC, Manhattan, New York; 2012 ‘Associazione Culturele Atelier’, Novi Sad – Rome; 2013, ‘New Serbian Abstraction’, Belgrade – Paris, live painting performance ‘Blue Balls Festival’, Lucerne.
She participated in the international meeting of artists in Spain (Patones).
She received award ‘NAF’ Philip Morris and ‘Pallets of Youth’.
She is a member of ULUV (The Association of Artists of Vojvodina) and ULUS (The Association of Visual Artists of Serbia). She lives and works in Novi Sad.
www.jelenadjuric.com