→Lana Stojićević

Biography

Lana Stojićević (b. 1989, Šibenik, based in Split) is a visual artist working in the field of artistic research. She utilizes performative and staged photography, textile, costumes, and architectural models to explore themes, such as illegal construction, architectural and industrial heritage, environmental pollution, contemporary neo-style tendencies, devastation of cultural heritage, and the transformation of the landscape as a result of mass tourism. She graduated from the Department of Painting at the Arts Academy in Split in 2012. She works as an assistant professor at the Department of Visual Culture and Fine Arts of the Arts Academy in Split. She has taken part in several artist residencies, such as Residency Unlimited, New York; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. She has won numerous professional awards, such as the third Erste prize, Youth Salon, Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb (2022); the Radoslav Putar Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2021); the third Ivan Kožarić Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2021); the Metro Imaging Award at the New East Photo Prize exhibition, Calvert 22 Foundation, London (2016); the Annual Award for Young Artists, Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb (2015); the second prize of the exhibition Different Worlds: Young Contemporary Photography, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana (2015). Her works are included in public art collections, such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Prostor – Culture Hub Croatia, Split; Erste Bank, Zagreb; The State Museum; Exhibition Centre for Photography – ROSPHOTO, St. Petersburg, Gallery of Fine Arts, Split.