Milica_Tomić

Milica Tomić

Milica Tomić

Serbian-born contemporary artist and educator (born 1960)

Milica Tomić (born 1960) also known as Milica Tomic, is a Serbian-born contemporary artist and educator. Her artistic practice is research-based and includes working in the mediums of photography, video, installation art and discursive, educational art, performance, and socio-political engagement.[1] She serves as the Chair of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Graz University of Technology in Austria. She has lived in Berlin, Belgrade, and Graz.

Career

Tomić was born in 1960 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.[2][3] She graduated with a bachelor's degree (1990) and master's degree (1994) in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade.

She has been awarded many artist-in-residency opportunities including at Artpace (2004) in San Antonio, United States;[4] and the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Programme (2006). In 2011, she had a fellowship as a Humanities Center–SiCa Arts writer/practitioner in residence at Stanford University in Stanford, California.[5]

Her work was part of the group exhibition, Global Feminisms (2007) at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin.[6]

Since 2014, Tomić is the Chair of the Institute for Contemporary Art (within the Faculty of Architecture) at the Graz University of Technology in Graz, Styria, Austria.[7] From 2014 to 2015, she was a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art in Trondheim, Norway.[8]

Artwork

Tomić’s work centers on researching, unearthing and bringing to public debate issues related to political and economic violence, trauma and social amnesia, with particular attention to the short circuit between intimacy and politics. As a response to the commitment to social change and the new forms of collectivity it engenders, Tomić has made a marked shift from individual to collective artistic practice.[when?]

Her work "I am Milica Tomic" (1999) was created as both a performance and video installation, where she would repeat "I am Milica Tomic" paired with a different national identity, said in the local language.[3] Each time she would announce a new nationality, a new bloody wound would appear on her skin.[3][9]

Her work "One day, Instead of One Night, a Burst of Machine-Gun Fire will Flash, if Light Cannot Come Otherwise" (2010), was performed at the ISEA International's ISEA2010: 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Dortmund, Germany.[10]

She is a founding member of the Yugoslav art and theory group, Grupa Spomenik (or Monument Group),[11] and founder of the cross-disciplinary project and working group of Four Faces of Omarska.[12]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

References

  1. [1]
    Banai, Nuit (July 2020). "Milica Tomić, Charim Galerie". Artforum.com. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  2. [2]
    "Milica Tomić". ZKM.de. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  3. [3]
    Warren, John T.; Lengel, Laura B. (2005). Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context. Peter Lang. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8204-7419-9.
  4. [4]
    "ArtPace: About Milica Tomic".
  5. [5]
    "Salon with Milica Tomic: Art and Right to Public Space | Stanford Humanities Center". Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Center. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  6. [6]
    McQuaid, Cate (October 4, 2007). "Earnestly exploring the world of women". The Boston Globe. pp. C-1, C-5. ISSN 0743-1791.
  7. [7]
    "Milica Tomić: IZK TUGraz / University Professor".
  8. [8]
    "Milica Tomić: NTNU Trondheim, Professor 2014/15". Trondheim Academy of Art.
  9. [9]
    Bishop, Claire (2002-08-02). "A cacophony beyond belief". Evening Standard. p. 31. ISSN 2041-4404. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  10. [10]
    "Milica Tomić: One day, Instead of One Night, a Burst of Machine-Gun Fire will Flash, if Light Cannot Come Otherwise". ISEA Symposium Archives. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  11. [11]
    "Grupa Spomenik / Monument Group". Grupa Spomenik / Monument Group. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  12. [12]
    Stanford, Humanities at (2013-03-31). "Milica Tomic: The Four Faces of Omarska". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  13. [13]
    "Milica Tomic, Reading Capital". Artpace. Fall 2004.
  14. [14]
    "Milica Tomić u Salonu MSUB". SeeCult.org. September 7, 2010.
  15. [15]
    "Artists' Film International Burak Delier, Tejal Shah and Milica Tomic". White Chapel Gallery. 2014.
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