Zorica Čolić

Zorica Čolić is a visual artist, born in Serbia and based in New York. Using a wide range of media such as video, sound, mixed media sculpture, text and collage, she explores issues around the human body as a cultural symptom, focusing on how its health and well-being are intertwined in the political, economic and cultural realms. She earned an M.F.A. in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University (Alfred, NY), B.F.A. in Painting from the Academy of Art (Novi Sad, Serbia).

Čolić was a resident artist at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; Artist In the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts; NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program; Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, NY; International Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria. She has been exhibiting in solo and group shows internationally, including exhibitions at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, NY; The Energy Museum of Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey; Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany; Fashion Art Toronto, Canada; Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade. She is a recipient of grants from institutions such as Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, NY), KulturKontakt (Austria), Ministry of Culture (Serbia), Goethe Institute (Germany).