Goran Despotovski
Goran Despotovski (1972). He graduated from the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade (1995); he received his bachelor (1999) and master degrees (2003) in painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and acquired the title of the Doctor of Arts – Fine Arts (2018). He has been employed at the same academy since 2004. He was elected a full professor, for the narrower artistic field of Painting in 2019. He is the president of the Union of the Associations of Fine Artists of Vojvodina – SULUV (since 2017). He has exhibited at sixty-six only and several collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has received many awards in the field of visual arts: Bogdanka Poznanović Award for the best media project at the 26th Videomedeja (2022); Grand Prix, 16th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac (2022); He has received a number of awards in the field of fine arts: Fine Arts Autumn Award, Cultural Centre ‘Laza Kostić’, Sombor (2014); Award/Medal of the 17th Spring Annals, Cultural Centre, Čačak (2013); Grand Prix of November Salon, Association of Fine and Applied Artists, Kraljevo (2012); Award for experimental aquarelle of the 7th Aquarelle Biennial, Contemporary Gallery Zrenjanin (2007); SCC Award at the 5th Youth Biennial, Centre for Contemporary Culture ‘Konkordija’, Vršac (2002); the YU Youth Palette Award, Cultural Centre of Vrbas (2001); SCC Praise, The 4th Youth Biennial, Vršac (2000); Annual Award for Painting of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (1999), among others.
Goran Despotovski has authored and organised the following projects within the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad: Differences (actualised twenty-two times, 2005–2019), The Painting (2011–2019), Book, the Form of Book in Visual Exploration (2016), and The Space of the Digital Image (2016).
He has authored and organised the following projects within the Union of Fine Artists’ Associations of Vojvodina: The SMIC. moving form (2019–); the thematic concept Deleted within the project Link It Mark It (author, 2020–); the thematic concept SMIC. moving form, Body as a Moving Form, within the project Art Body Art (author, 2020), A Document from Isolation (2020). He is the author and organiser of the project Ecological Materials in Creativity, Eco-camp, Vršački breg (2006).