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Boris Cvjetanović

He was born in 1953, in Zagreb.
He graduated from the department of fine arts at the Faculty of Teacher Training in Zagreb, in 1976. From 1976 to 1984, he worked as a sculptor conservationist at the Croatian Conservation Institute.

He beganto professionally pursue photography in 1981. In the same year, he started to work for a university magazine Studentski list where he became the photography editor in 1987.

His works were featured at numerous solo and group exhibitions at home (Croatia) and abroad (Europe, USA, Japan, Australia …). He won several prestigious awards (1st Tokyo International Photo-Biennale ’95 Award in Japan, the Grand Prix Award at the Croatian Photography exhibition in 1997, the award Homo Volans).

In 1996, he published a book of photographs entitled Scenes without Significance. That same year, his photographs were also featured in the book Echoes – Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions by Francesco Bonami (The Monacelli Press, New York, 1996).
His photographs are a part of several major international art collections: at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Gallery Dante Marino Cettina, Umag; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Art Gallery in Split, National Museum Zadar – Art Gallery; Croatian History Museum, Zagreb and in several private collections.

He is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts.

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