Tanja Softic
Tanja's completed edition will be released in Sept. 2006!
Tanja Softic earned B.F.A. in painting in 1988 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and M.F.A. in printmaking in 1992 at Old Dominion University. She works in media of printmaking, drawing and book arts. Drawing on sources as varied as medical and botanical illustration, history of mnemotechnics and study of natural and architectural structures, her work addresses the relationships of senses and intellect, memory and identity.
She is a recipient of the 1996 National Endowment for the Arts/ Southern Arts Federation Visual Artist Fellowship and Soros Foundation—Open Society Institute Exhibition Support Grant in 1997. Her work is included in numerous collections in the United States and abroad, among them New York Public Library, Library of Congress Print Department and New South Wales Gallery of Art in Sydney, Australia. She recently participated in 12th International Print Triennial in Cracow, Poland and won a First Prize at the The 5th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Ino-cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan in 2002.
She is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Richmond.