Slobodan Trajković
Slobodan Trajković’s artwork combines and overlaps media such as installations, video, photography, sculpture, paintings and drawings. The main characteristic of his work is to create a metaphor about life’s turbulences in the context of the social, cultural, and political relations in which he lives. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the National Museum in Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, the Alternative Museum in New York, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, the ISA in Singapore and many private galleries in the USA and Europe. He is the recipient of the First Award for Painting at the Yugoslav Biennale of Young Artists and First Award for Painting at the “October salon” Belgrade.
Trajković was born in 1954 in Pristina, the south Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. He received his master’s in 1980 from Belgrade University. In 1982 he was awarded a one-year, postgraduate grant from the French government at the l’Ecole Nationale, Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is a visiting professor for the Doctoral program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and his essays about contemporary art shows in London are published regularly in Belgrade’s daily newspaper, Politika. He lived in New York City from 1988 till 2005. Since then he has been living and working in London and Belgrade.