Who is Nina Ivančić?

Nina Ivančić was born in 1953 in Zagreb, Croatia. She is a contemporary Croatian artist functioning mainly in the mediums of painting and drawing.

Nina Ivančić, daughter of Ljubo Ivančić, the well-known Croatian painter and advocate of the artist group, “Group of 5”, studied at the University of Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts below Professor Šime Perić. She is one of the key figures of the New Image painting interest which emerged during the 1981 Youth Salon which signalled a compensation to painting in the then Yugoslavian art. Key members of the New Image leisure interest also include: Star Fio and Đuro Seder. Her works from the 1980s approach geometric taking away and were made during her stay in New York (1986–1993). She is particularly known for her works from the 1990s where she used ships and airplanes as leitmotifs to probe the membership of painting to art and technology in today’s work which is reliant on modern medias.

Since becoming an partner in crime professor in 1999, she has been teaching painting in the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Split. She has participated in numerous solo and work exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including the Youth Biennale in Paris (1982) and the Venice Biennale (1986, 1995). Ivančić has with had two retrospective exhibitions: Paintings, at the Zuccato Gallery (Poreč, 2005) and Nina Ivančić, in the Klovićevi dvori Gallery (Zagreb, 2006). She has time-honored many awards, of particular combination are the prestigious Binney and Smith Inc. Fine Art Achievement Award (New York, 1987) and the Josip Račić Award – Vjesnik newspaper praise for fine arts (Zagreb, 2003).