About Artist

Aleksandra Kostic Dimitrijevic was born in Belgrade, Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia).
She has lived and worked in Australia since 2012.
Aleksandra works across several mediums, incorporating installations, paintings, drawings, video-artwork, and mixed media into her practice.
Since 1994, she has regularly exhibited her work in group and solo exhibitions.
Her works explore a range of ideas about women’s emotional lives, anxiety, and mental health, as well as our relationship with sacred geometry in nature and our ways of knowing and perceiving the divine in the environment.
Her expressionistic approach to the work describes her as an intuitive artist willing to expose her creative energy directly.
Aleksandra’s current role is with UMI Arts, an esteemed First Nations arts and cultural organization in Far North Queensland.

Education:

• 2002 – MFA, Master in Fine Arts (AQF) / two years of full-time / Awarded a Master of Fine Arts, MFA, at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia (Europa)
• 1997 – BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts (AQF) / five years of full-time study / Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia (Europa)
• 2023 – Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, CQUniversity, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

Courses:

• 2023 – “Introduction to Psychology” by Yale University, Course authorized by Yale University, USA
Taught by Paul Bloom, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.

• 2021 – “Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art” MOMA, Course authorized by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, MOMA, USA

• 2020 – “Modern Art & Ideas” MOMA, Course authorized by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, MOMA, USA

Solo Exhibition:

• 2021 – “I am here & I exist” Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, QLD, Australia

• 2021 – “Oceania, My Destiny, My Secret Place” Artview Gallery, Cairns, QLD, Australia

• 2019 – “She is here & She exists” Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

• 2016 – “Holy Space between Ocean and Heaven” Cell Arts Space, Cairns, QLD, Australia

• 2011 – Multimedia Exhibition, City Gallery Kotor, Montenegro

• 2009 – Multimedia Exhibition “Diary of Captain’s Wife” Gallery 73, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2009 – Multimedia Exhibition “Gift”, three authors, Gallery “Magacin”, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2005 – Drawings, Lithography and Light Installations from 1998 until 2002

Gallery of the Central Club of the Serbian Army, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2004 – „Lips, Source & Sanctuary” Digital Prints-Billboard Form

Fine Art Salon of the Cultural Center Čačak, Serbia

• 2002 – “Passengers through Time” Lithography, Gallery FLU (Faculty of Fine Arts)

Belgrade, Serbia

• 1999 – Graphics, drawings, ambience drawings-light installations

Cultural Center Despotovac, Serbia

• 1998 – “Passages” Drawings, lithographs and ambience drawings-light installations

Gallery of the Kolarac Endowment, Belgrade, Serbia

• and more than 35 crucial group exhibitions in Australia and Europe •

Members/Participation

• 2019 – present, Member of Umbrella Center of Contemporary Art, Townsville

• 2015 – present, Member in KickArts (NorthSite Contemporary Arts), Cairns, QLD, Australia

• 2016 – Participated in an Art-Postcard Project in the Souvenir City Project, KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns, QLD, Australia

• 2016 – Certificate of Participation for completing the workshop in Connecting Art with School Curriculum, Flying Arts – Alliance Inc

• from 1999. Aleksandra Kostic D is a member of The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS)

Awards/Stipends:

• 1995. Scholarship from the Republic Foundation for Development of Scientific and Art Youth, Belgrade, Serbia, Europa

• 1996. Award for Mosaic from the Fond JIK Banke / Yugoslav Export & Credit Bank Fund (Mosaic is a public art on the ZOO wall in Belgrade) Belgrade, Serbia, Europa

• 1994. Award from the Faculty of Fine Arts for the Best Evening Nude (Dragan Lubarda was an associate professor for the classes of Evening Nude in the Faculty of Fine Art at the University of Arts in Belgrade) from the Djurdje Teodorović Fund /Fond Djurdja Teodorovica, Belgrade, Serbia, Europa

Collections:

Gallery “Haos” Belgrade, Serbia

Selected publication:

• 2023. Art Edit Magazine, #36, page 152

• 2022. British Vogue, May and June issue, London, UK

• 2021. Vanity Fair UK, March, April, May issue, London, UK

• 2021. House & Garden UK, March, April, May issue, London, UK

• 2015. “Monograph 20 years of Gallery Chaos”, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2007. „Put do knjige” Mile Grozdanic, Publikum, 2007, page 261

• 2006. „Nova slika” Jovan Despotovic

(International Association of Art Critics/Curators (AICA)), Clio 2006, page 386

• 2005. „Deset godina galerije Haos”