DEGREES EARNED
2007 MFA, Visual Arts, School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, USA
2002 BFA, Cinematography, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade, Serbia
HONORS AND AWARDS
2018
Fulbright Research Scholar Award, Washington DC, USA
2018
Southern Prize Tennessee State Fellowship, Atlanta, GA, USA
2017
Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 2017/2018
2016
Marian O. Naumburg Fellow, The MacDowell Colony Artist in Residency, Peterborough, NH, USA
Artist in Residency, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA, USA
2014
Artist in Residency, Columbus State University Short Term, Columbus, GA, USA
2012
Artist Registry, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
Artist in Residence Award, CPH - City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011
2010
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Vanderbilt University “Representation and Social Change”
Artist in Residence, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, USA
2006
Artist in Residence, NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2004
Artist in Residence, Artist House, St. Mary’s College of Art, Maryland, USA
2003
Artist in Residence, Location One, New York, USA
2001
41st October Salon Award, Herzlich Willkommen im Hotel Hyatt Belgrad, April 1999
RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED
2017
The Catalyst Creativity Grant, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
“Photography and Community Class”, Arts 1200
2015
Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University
“Lost Art, Obsolescence of Photographic Slides: Project Research and Development”
Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Support Grant, Nashville, TN, USA
“Projects of Socialism” Project brochure
Contemporary Art Foundation Emergency Grant, New York City, NY, USA
Littlejohn Faculty Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
2013
Innovation Grant, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
“Modernist visions of progress: Three Case Studies”
Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
“Iconography of Spectacle”
2012
Art Matters Foundation Grant, New York, NY, USA
Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Support Grant, Nashville, TN, USA
Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University, Undergraduate Research Supervision Grant, “Photographic installation: Light-box and acrylic dome as a display technique”
Research Scholar Grant, Summer Stipend, Vanderbilt University, “Photographic installation: Modes of novel representation and display”
2011
Contemporary Art Foundation Emergency Grant, New York, NY, USA
Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Support Grant, Nashville, TN, USA
Vanderbilt University International Office Project Development Grant, Vanderbilt University
“Conversations/Conversas”, Principal investigator in collaboration with School of Communications and Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University
“Souvenir Yugoslavia, Tourism Representation as a National Identity”
2010
Vanderbilt University International Office Exploratory Grant, Vanderbilt University
“Art, Poetics, Politics”, Principal investigator in collaboration with School of Communications and Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University
“Photographs as objects, Large Scale Printing”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ( * indicates solo and two-people exhibitions)
2020
WATCHING, With Chris Boyd Taylor, The New Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Austin Peay, TN, USA (upcoming)
2019
VESNA PAVLOVIĊ: LOST ART, Mesaros Galleries, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, USA
*FABRICS OF SOCIALIMS, Artget Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
* MIXTAPE, March Open Space, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
*VESNA PAVLOVIĊ: SITES OF MEMORY, Laufer Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
*FABRICS OF SOCIALISM, University Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
*MIXTAPE, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, USA
2017
*COMMUNITY SLIDE SHOW, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, USA
SEQUENCES. ART OF YUGOSLAVIA AND SERBIA FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
TRAVELERS, VOYAGE AND MIGRATION IN NEW ART FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, KUMU Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
TITO’S BUNKER, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
DISOBIDIENT, Eulàlia Grau, Katalin Ladik and Žene u crnom, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
4th LOUISIANA BIENNIAL NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION, Louisana Tech University, School of Design, Ruston, LA, USA
* VESNA PAVLOVIĊ: LOST ART, Columbus Museum, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, USA, 2017
*COMMUNITY SLIDE SHOW, Southeastern Contemporary Art Center SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2016
* VESNA PAVLOVIĊ: LOST ART, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
TRAVELERS, The Zach?ta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
*LOST ART, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
*COMMUNITY SLIDE SHOW EVENT, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
GA, USA
2015
*LOST ART, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, USA
INSIDE OUT – Not So White Cube, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
INTERSECTIONS @ 5: CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS AT THE PHILLIPS, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA
FIVE ARTISTS, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
FOUND, The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, United Kingdom
2014
*PARTICIPANT/FABRICS OF SOCIALISM, G Fine Art, Washington, DC, USA
*VESNA PAVLOVIĊ: ILLUMINATED ARCHIVE, INTERSECTIONS, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA
NEW BEGINNINGS. LATEST ACQUISITIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MOCA BELGRADE SINCE 2001, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania
16TH PANCEVO BIENNIAL, TIMELINES: DOCUMENTS FROM 1981-2012, Cultural Center of Pan?evo, Serbia
SYSTEMA, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
ON THE EDGES: WORKS FROM VANDERBILT DEPARTMENT OF ART FACULTY& STAFF, The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
PHOTONIC MOMENTS 2014, FROM PERSONAL ANGLE: PHOTOGRAPHY SCENE IN SERBIA, 1980-2014, Center for Photography, ZRC Atrium, Ljubljana, Slovenia
*WOMEN IN BLACK, WE ARE STILL ON THE STREETS, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN, USA
ALTERED CONNECTIONS: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SERBIA, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, USA
SCORE: ARTISTS IN OVERTIME, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, USA
2013
*REAL IMAGES, Seed Space, Nashville, TN, USA
FABRICS OF SOCIALISM, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
ALIVE ARCHIVE, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, Curated by Priscila Arantes
TWELVE VARIATIONS, HATCH ARTISTS IN CONTEXT, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL, USA
ART OF SPORT, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA, Curated by Craig Smith
*LOOKING FOR IMAGES, Henco Reprographics (Window), Asheville, NC, USA, Curated by Dawn Roe
WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, The Hirshhorn Museum and the Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
* PICTURES WE WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE // IMAGENES QUE ESPERABAMOS TOMAR, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires, Argentina
WE’RE EVERYTHING TO EACH OTHER, Lanchester Gallery, Projects Coventry, UK
*REFLECTIONS ON IMAGES, Museum of Contemporary Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
*ARCHETYPE DRIFT: A CALL FOR NEW METHODS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MAKING, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL, USA, Juried by Jason Lazarus
AQUA ART FAIR, Whitespace Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2012
FRAGMENTS OF MEMORIES, TWENTY YEARS LATER, LUDUS, Belgrade, Serbia
*WOMEN IN BLACK, within The Tunnel, Secret of the Siege of Sarajevo Symposium, Student Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
*REAL IMAGES, InLight Richmond 2012 Festival, 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA, USA; juried by Melissa Ho, Assistant curator, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
RE: NOUN, EXHIBITION OF PERSONS, PLACES AND THINGS, The Old Academy, Westabou Festival, Augusta, GA, USA; curated by Nancy Solomon
* HIDDEN NARRATIVES, With Maria Finn, BKS Garage, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5, TACTICS FOR THE HERE AND NOW, Bucharest, Romania, Curated by Anne Barlow, Director, Art in General, NY
CSART - COMMUNITY SUPPORTED ART, Seed Space, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN, USA
* PROJECTED IMAGES, G Fine Art, Washington, DC, USA
* SEARCH FOR LANDSCAPES, Zeitgeist gallery, Nashville, TN, USA
FROM THE CLOSED WORLD TO THE INFINITE UNIVERSE, Le Quartier Center for Contemporary Art, Quimper, France; curated by Marc Bembekoff, Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
EXHIBIT YOUR SYMPTOM, Zeitgeist, Nashville, TN, USA
* HIDDEN NARRATIVES, With Maria Finn, curated by Annette Schemmel and Mika Hannula, Raum 58, Munich, Germany
2011
SPACESHIP YUGOSLAVIA, THE SUSPENSION OF TIME, NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
URBAN LANDSCAPES: IN AND OUT OF THE MARGINS, Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, USA
* UNTITLED (12th ISTANBUL BIENNIAL) 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Jens Hoffmann, The Jewish Museum New York, Deputy Director and Adriano Pedrosa
BELGRADE - MOMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE, Vienna Insurance Group, Vienna, Austria
LEFT BEHIND: SELECTED GIFTS FROM THE HEATHER AND TONY PODESTA COLLECTION, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
UNDER THE INFLUENCE, 11th ANNUAL PINGYAO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
FESTIVAL, Pingyao China; invitational exhibition with Independent Study photography students Lauren Richman, Nikky Okoro, and Jonathan Gendzier
* VESNA PAVLOVI?: PROJECTED HISTORIES, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA
* HIDDEN NARRATIVES, With Maria Finn, LMG Gallery, Williamsburg, VA, USA
TOPOI. PHOTOBIENNALE. SITES, Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
THE A.I.R. GALLERY 9TH BIENNIAL, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Curated by Alexandra Schwartz, Montclair Museum of Contemporary Art, New Jersey
10TH ANNUAL JOYCE ELAINE GRANT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, Texas Woman’s University, School of the Arts, Denton, TX. USA; Juror: Natasha Egan, Associate Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
THE SALON PHOTO PRIZE 2011, Matt Roberts Arts Gallery, London, UK; Jurors: Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate Britain, Stefanie Braun, Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery, Charlotte Cotton, Creative director, National Media Museum, and Tim Clark, Editor-in-chief, 1000 Words Photography Magazine
MIDWEST CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY JURIED EXHIBITION, Center Gallery, Wichita, KS, USA
2010
THE LAST KODACHROME, Kodachrome Juried Portfolio Show, RayKo gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
LAND OF PROMISES, CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, Curated by Ana Adamovi?, Pecs, 2010 European Culture Capital, Hungary
KY7 BIENNIAL, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, USA, curated by Jason Frantz, Manifest Gallery, John Bagley, Hite Art Institute, and Becky Alley
* VESNA PAVLOVIĊ: TRANSPARENCIES, Space 204 Gallery, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN USA
* SEARCH FOR LANDSCAPES, PhotoBiennale/21st International Photography Meeting, Mylos Thessaloniki Multiplex, Thessaloniki, Greece
* SEARCH FOR LANDSCAPES, with Nicholas Nyland, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN THERE?, Recent Work by the Department of Art, Fine Arts Gallery, Cohen Memorial Hall, Nashville, TN, USA
COLUMBIA ALUMNI ARTS EXHIBITION, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City, NY, USA
RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, USA, curated by Lain York
2009
THE GIFT SHOP PRESENTS: PRESENTS, Henry Art Gallery Gift Shop, Seattle, WA, USA
EXPO, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
* WOMEN IN BLACK, 4th Pitchwise Festival, Historic Museum of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
THE ATLAS OF GIFTED IDEAS, Curated by Heide Heinrichs and Matthew Offenbacher Henry Art Gallery Gift Shop, Seattle, WA, USA
ARTSLINK LOTTERY AUCTION, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
ON NORMALITY: ART IN SERBIA, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art/ MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria
ON NORMALITY: ART IN SERBIA, Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington DC, USA
LAND OF PROMISES, CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, Galerie ArtPoint, Kultur Kontakt, Vienna, Austria; Espace Apollonia, Strasbourg, France, curated by Ana Adamovi?
* PATCH DYNAMICS: SIX NEW INVASIONS TO THE FIELD, Lawrimore Project Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA, curated by Yoko Ott and Scott Lawrimore
2008
OST LOCKT, Galerie Roemer Apotheke, Zurich, Switzerland
DE-COLLECTING, FRAC Nord Pas De Calais, Dunquerque, France; Idem+Arts, Maubeuge, France, curated by Annette Schemmel
DE-COLLECTING II, De Garage Mechelen, Belgium, curated by Annette Schemmel
NEW MEMBERS SHOW, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
2007
* DISPLAY, DESIRE, G Fine Art, Washington DC, USA
LAND OF PROMISES, CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris, France, curated by Ana Adamovi?
HISTORY STARTED PLAYING WITH MY LIFE, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel, curated by Erzen Shkololli
2006
* COLLECTION/KOLEKCIJA, Gallery Fusebox, Washington DC, USA
ELEMENTS OF NORMALITY, Cultural Centre Babel, Utrecht, Netherlands
2005
* WATCHING THE SACRAMENTO KINGS, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA, curated by Scott E. Shields
ON NORMALITY, ART IN SERBIA 1989-2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
AKTUELLE FOTOGRAFIE AUS SERBIEN, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
SITUATED SELF: CONFUSED, COMPASSIONATE, CONFLICTUAL, Curated by Branislav Dimitrijevi? and Mika Hannula, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; The Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
WELCOME TO BASKETBALL LAND, 1947-2004, Pavillion Cvijeta Zuzori?, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2004
REAR VIEW MIRROR, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, curated by Elizabeth Fisher
MEDITERRANEAN, BETWEEN REALITY AND UTOPIA, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre
ALMOST REAL, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2003
* SCULPTURE GARDENS, Gallery Fusebox, Washington DC, USA
* WATCHING 02, Partisan Basketball Club, Belgrade Summer Art Festival, Serbia and Montenegro
* WATCHING 01, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
ASPECTS OF BALKAN PHOTOGRAPHY, State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Greece
ART POSITIONS, Miami Art-Basel, Miami Beach, USA
POST COLONY, Artist Colony Kaleni?, Serbia and Montenegro, curated by Jelena Vesi?
2002
*HOTELS, Museum of History of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
*HOTELS, Gallery Fusebox, Washington DC, USA
* WOMEN IN BLACK, Goethe Forum Munich, St.Oswald-Kirche, Regensburg, Germany
* AN IDYLL ON THE BEACH, Artget Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
RETROSPECTIVE, OCTOBER SALON 1960-2002, Museum of May 25, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
RECONSTRUCTIONS, IV BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Cetinnie, Montenegro Artpoint, Miami, Florida, USA
NEW BALKAN PHOTOGRAPHY, Arts Workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece
WOMEN IN BLACK, Heinrich-Boell Foundation, Berlin, Germany
YU PHOTO ART, Museum of History of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
THE LAST DECADE, INTER FOTO, III INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Moscow, Russia
2001
* MOSCOW IN MOSCOW, Hotel Moscow, Room 124, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
* THE LAST DECADE, YEARS 21-31, with Goranka Mati?, CZKD, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
KONVERZACIJA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, curated by Branislav Dimitrijevi? and Dejan Sretenovi?
42ND OCTOBER SALON, The Belgrade City Museum, Sekuli? Legacy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
ARS DANUBIANA, Salzstadel, Regensburg, Germany, curated by Regina Hellwig-Schmid
TEAM FUSEBOX, Fusebox, Washington DC, USA
FREEDOM AND VIOLENCE, Krolikarnia, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Branislav Dimitrijevi?
DOSSIER SERBIEN, Museum of 25th May, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Akademie der Bildenen Kunste, Vienna, Austria; Akademie der kunste, Berlin, Germany, curated by Ana Miljani?
2000
INNOCENT LIFE, Center for Contemporary Art, with Zoran Naskovski, Vilnius, Lithuania, curated by Lolita Jablonskiene
MOVING WALLS, The Open Society Institute, New York, USA
THROUGH THE EYES OF A WOMAN, The State City Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
* WOMEN IN BLACK, GLOBAL HOUSE, WORLD PROJECTS – EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany
TANDEM PROJECT/PASSAGES, DCAC Art Center / Signal 66 Art Space, Washington DC, USA
A PHOTOGRAPHED PLACE, The Museum of Contemporary Art Salon, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, curated by Jasna Tijardovic
PUBLIC /PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (Selected)
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Delta Sky Club, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA, USA
Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Washington DC, USA
Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA
Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, USA
Heather and Tony Podesta Art Collection, Washington, DC, USA
Paul and Gloria Sternberg Photography Collection, Nashville, TN, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, USA http://www.zeitgeist-art.com/
Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA http://whitespace814.com/
Laufer, Belgrade, Serbia https://lauferart.com/
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Art Association, USA
Society for Photographic Education, USA
Southeastern College Art Conference, USA
Association of Applied Arts, Serbia
SOIL Artist Run Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA (2007-2009)
ŠKART Artist Collective, Belgrade, Serbia (1990-1994)
WEBSITE
http://vesnapavlovic.com