Čedomir Vasić (Belgrade, 1948) obtained his BFA in 1971 and MFA in 1973 with Prof. Djordje Bošan at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Fulbright Grant at the University of California, Santa Barbara & Los Angeles 1975/76. Studied video with Prof. Mitsuru Kataoka and computer art with Prof. John Whitney at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976.
Practicing artist, working in fields of painting, graphic art, video and media arts. Exhibited extensively in country and abroad since 1969. In 1976 started using video as an art medium (tape, installation, environment). From 1983 initiated mural painting in Belgrade, and accomplished a number of works for public spaces.
Writings on Visual Arts since 1973.
Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade from 1975 till 2013. From 1984 teaches Visual culture at the Faculty of Drama, and since 2001 Polymedia art at the Interdisciplinary studies at the University of Arts.
Rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade 2004 – 2009.
Member of the Association of the Serbian Artists since 1972.
ONEMAN SHOWS (selection)
1973 Paintings, Galerija Doma omladine, Beograd
1977 American tape, (video tapes) Galerija Studentskog Kulturnog Centra, Beograd, Projects, Likovni salon Trbine mladih, Novi Sad
1981 Synthetic landscapes, Galerija Kulturnog centra Beograda, Beograd,
1984 Paintings, Galerija Kulturnog centra Radničkog univerziteta, Novi Sad
1987 Paintings (Facades), Galerija Kolarčevog narodnog univerziteta, Beograd
1992 Under the Volcano / Sotto il Vulcano ( paintings), AcomeArte, Naples
1992 Clio’s Garden (combined installation I) Galerija ULUS, Beograd
1993 Clio’s Garden (combined installation II), Muzej na grad Skopje, Skopje,.
1994 24 hours of the Rouen’s Cathedral, (computer installation), Narodni muzej (National Museum), Beograd ;
1994 Clio’s Garden (combined installation III), Murat, Naples
1995 Serials from the Antiquity (paintings, ambiences), Gradska galerija, Užice
1997 Road to Oz, (ambiental piece), Savremena galerija, Pančevo
2004 Introspective (drawings), Galerija HAOS, Beograd
2004 Red alert (ambience), Umetnička galerija ”Nadežda Petrović”, Čačak
2007 Post scriptum (lenticular images), Galerija Kulturnog centra Beograda, Beograd
2013 Dream (ambiental installation), Galerija savremene umetnosti, Niš
2016 Before and after and now (video installation), Istorijski muzej Srbije (History Museum of Serbia),
Beograd,
AWARDS (selection)
1998 Grand Prix of Memorijal Nadežde Petrović. Čačak
1998 Visitors’ Prize, Memorijal Nadežde Petrović., Čačak
2010 Autumn Show Prize of the Artists’Association of Serbia, Beograd
2014 Newspaper Politika ‘s Prize for Fine arts for 2013, Beograd
2015 Prize for Visual Art “Sava Sumanovic”, Novi Sad