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Endi
Poskovic was born in Sarajevo in 1969. After a year of
study in Norway in 1990 on a Minnefondet Scholarship,
Poskovic moved to the United States to pursue graduate
studies. He is a graduate of Sarajevo School of Music
(Primary Music Diploma 1982-86), Sarajevo School of
Applied Arts (Diploma in Fine Arts 1983-86), The
University of Sarajevo-Academy of Fine Arts (B.F.A.
1986-90), and State University of New York at Buffalo
(M.F.A. 1991-93). Best known for his large scale color woodcuts, Poskovic’s works have been exhibited in over 300 individual and group exhibitions, including all major international print biennales and triennials, in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Estonia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and Thailand. Poskovic is the recipient of 70 grants and fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Camargo Foundation (France), MacDowell Colony, Art Matters Foundation, Kala Art Institute, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Valparaiso Foundation (Spain), Can Serrat International Art Centre (Spain), Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Flemish Ministry of Culture (Belgium), Norwegian Government, New York State Arts Council, Indiana Arts Commission, and Canada’s Open Studio. Poskovic´s works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Royal Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Cairo, Egypt, Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University, New Orleans Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, California, Kennedy Museum of American Art, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, Seattle Arts Commission, Tampa Museum of Fine Arts, Vaasa Ostrobothnian Museum, Finland and about one hundred other museum and public collections in the US and abroad. Currently, Endi Poskovic is tenured Professor of Art at Whittier College in Los Angeles where he has been teaching since 1997. He has also been on faculty at Daemen College, Ball State University, California State University-Long Beach, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Columbia College Chicago and has been visiting artist at numerous universities in the United States and abroad. |
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