Alabama State Council on the Arts - enhancing and supporting high-quality art experiences fro all Alabamians. Grants are made possible by an annual appropriation from the Alabama Legislature and additional funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Awarded in June 2023.
Croatian-American artist and professor of art Zdenko Krtić maintains studios in Zagreb, Croatia and in Auburn, Alabama, where he resides. In his work the artist explores the intersections of memory, natural history, built environments, weathering and other natural phenomena. His work (consisting mainly of drawings, paintings and scanner photographs) has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country and abroad, and is found in many public and private collections.
The work has been recognized through various exhibition awards and university grants. Krtić has also received a competitive Individual Artist Fellowship awarded by Alabama State Council on the Arts. On two occasions he was commissioned by CNN.com to create work that became a part of the network’s theme-based special editorial features (Ripple- after 9/11 and Power- America’s choice). The artist has completed multiple residencies as an invited visiting artist at the prestigious American Art Academy of Art in Rome, Italy. He has been teaching studio art (painting and drawing) at Auburn University for over twenty-five years.
UNSENT LETTERS: Works On Paper, Moltivolti, Palermo, Sicily. June 2024. Artist’s talk.
select exhibition venues
Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Arkansas Rome Center, Rome, Italy
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Alabama
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
Temple University, Temple Rome Campus, Gallery of Art, Rome, Italy
Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California
Georgina Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Vladimir Nazor Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Meridian Museum of Art, Mississippi
Space 301 Gallery, Mobile, Alabama
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama
LaGrange Museum of Art, Georgia
Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama
Montclair State University, New Jersey
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art, Alabama