Milica Tomić


Milica Tomić is a contemporary Yugoslav-born artist. Her artistic practice traverses boundaries between photography, video, installation art and discursive, educational art, performance, and socio-political engagement. Her work encompasses collaborative and cross-disciplinary work.

Career

She lives in Belgrade, Berlin, and Graz. Graduated in 1994 with Master's Degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade. In 2004 she was an artist in residence at International program Artist-in-residence, Artpace, San Antonio, United States. Since 2006, she had an Artist in Residency grant, International DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Programme, and in 2011 she had an artist fellowship at Residencies for International Scholars at Stanford University centers and institutes - Stanford Humanities Center / Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies / Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts / Practitioner in Residence.
Since 2014, she is a Head of Contemporary Art Institute at the Graz University of Technology. In 2014/15 she was a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art/NTNU in Norway.

Art work

Milica Tomic’s work centers on researching, unearthing and bringing to public debate issues related to political and economic violence, trauma and social amnesia, with particular attention to the short circuit between intimacy and politics. As a response to the commitment to social change and the new forms of collectivity it engenders, Tomić has made a marked shift from individual to collective artistic practice. Today, she is a founding member of the new Yugoslav art/theory group, Grupa Spomenik/Monument Group, founder of the cross-disciplinary project Four Faces of Omarska (2010 and initiator of the Working group Four Faces of Omarska.

Exhibitions

Individual exhibitions (selection)