Biography
Ivana was born in the 1983, Titograd. She graduated in 2006 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, within the Department of Sculpture under the tutelage of Prof. Pavle Pejovic. She started to work as a teaching assistant in 2006. She received an M.A. in November 2009 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in the class of the same Professor. Ivana currently works as a assistant professor for Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje.
2016 Ivana obtained a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Fine Arts, in Belgrade, under the mentorship of Prof. Dusan Petrovic.

2025
- September 2025 – Solo exhibition The Waste Land, Building Kolektor (MCAM), Podgorica, Montenegro
- September 2025 – Participant in the 9th International Iron Casting Workshop, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
- September 2025 – Participant in the International Biennale of Visual Arts SubDokumenta 2025, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Exhibition “Contemporary Art of Montenegro,” Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Rijeka, Croatia
- May 2025 – ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, residency at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
- March 2025 – Secondary Archive, participant in the platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe
2024
- December 2024, author of the project Wabi Sabi Tea Party Workshop / Raku Ceramics and exhibition “Raku. Small Prints of Joy”, students of the Faculty of Fine Arts and students of the “Petar Lubarda” Fine Arts High School, Gallery “Risto Stijović”, Podgorica
- September 2024, participant at the VIII International Iron Casting Workshop in Banska Bistrica, Slovakia
- September 2024, Conference “Contemporary Sculpture - Challenges and Tendencies”, PI Art Colony Danilovgrad, Montenegro
- September 2024 Solo exhibition “O future time, are you estranged from me”, Mali Likovni Salon, Novi Sad, Serbia
- August 2024, Danube Dialogues 2024, About (Self) Destruction and Against it, Novi Sad, Serbia
- June 2024 International Symposium of Sculpture, Tvornica Zemlja 2024, Vinkovci, Croatia
- May 2024, international project Harmony - Intersection of Senses in Serbian, Chinese and Montenegrin Contemporary Sculpture, Chinese Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
- May 2024, International Master Class Terra, CPLU Terra, Kikinda Serbia
- May 2024, ERASMUS + Teaching Mobility, enrolment in Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
- February 2024, participant of the 57th Herceg Novi Winter Salon, Montenegro
2023
- December 2023 participate at the International exhibition Think Before You Print, Empfangshalle Gallery, Munich, Germany
- September 2023 participate at VII International Iron Casting Workshop, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
- August/September Artist-in-residence and solo exhibition „Roots Column“, studio Florida, Genova, Italy
- July 2023 IIW 2023 Digital Collection Welded Art Photographic Exhibition-Sustainable Development Goals, cooperation of 36 artists from 16 countries, Singapore
- July 2023 exhibition 41 International Symposium of Large-Scale Terracotta Sculpture -TERRA, Kikinda Serbia
- June 2023 exhibition SCULPTURE 23 Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzorić“, Belgrade, Serbia-
- June 2023 Lectures, ERASMUS + Teaching Mobility Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland
- February 2023 International project Floating Gravities-intersecting the senses in Serbian, Chinese and Montenegrin contemporary metal, Smederevo Fortress, Smederevo, Serbia
2022
- December 2022 workshop and exhibition You are right – Art or Social Change with the support of the American Embassy, American Corner in Podgorica
- November 2022. exhibition 44. The Montenegrin art salon “Eco mythology”, Cetinje
- October 2022 Scholarship of the CEEPUS Programme for a teaching/research/artistic stay, Faculty of Fine Arts-Belgrade, University of Arts
- August 2022. exhibition Quarantin stories / Bars Chronicle Art Festival, Bar
- July 2022 participated in 41. International Symposium of Large-Scale Terracotta Sculpture -TERRA, Kikinda Serbia
- Cost Action CA 20134 (TRACTS) has been nominated as an MC Member and Working group Member (WG1, WG2) from Montenegro
- April 2022 exhibition Quarantin stories / Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica
- February 2022 International exhibition – Flux Identity – Contemporary art scene from Canada in dialogue with artists from Montenegro / Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica
2021
- November 2021 Biennial exhibition “Subsistence” 31st /32st session of Galicnik International Art Colony, National gallery of North Macedonia
- July 2021 she had a solo exhibition – Perennial Plot - Modern Gallery of Risto Stijovic, Podgorica, Montenegro
- February participate in Voids 2021 project / Temporary activation of temporarily closed spaces in the historical center of Split (CHC), Croatia
2020
- August 2020 participate in 31st Galicnik International Art Colony, North Macedonia
- April 2020 COCA2020 Award Finalist / Center of Contemporary Artists, Rome, Italy
- March / October / 2020 participate in III Langkawi Art Biennale "Environment and Culture", Malaysia
2019
- December days of culture; International exhibition / Deus ex Machina / December artistic scene / DEUS 2019
- October 2019 participate in IX International Sculpture Festa in Seoul. Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, South Korea
- September 2019 participate in IV International Iron Casting Workshop, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
- June 2019 she had a solo exhibition – Invitation - Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
- Winner of Silvermine Fulbright Art Residency in 2019, New Canaan, CT
- March 2019 she had a solo exhibition - Souls and Bodies - St. Andrä’s Church, Graz, Austria
- 2019 Lectures, ERASMUS + Teaching Mobility/ Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018
- 2018 Winner of Fulbright scholarship for postdoctoral research in 2019
- October 2018 Ivana has been chosen to participate in the Residential programme of BJCEM Biennial “LANDXCAPES-art, storytelling, landscape”- Puglia, Italy
- Science Days (9-12th October 2018) – co-author of multimedia exhibition Archaeology of Memory and Architecture of Knowledge
- September 2018. participate in IV International Iron Casting Workshop, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
- September 2018 she had a solo exhibition – Perseverance - Modern Gallery of Budva, Montenegro
- March 2018 she had a solo exhibition -The Quiet Affinity for Fleetness - Gallery 73, Belgrade, Serbia
- Representative of Montenegro for The Imago Mundi Highlights and at the same time the opening of the Imago Mundi museum in Trieste (Italy) by Benetton Foundation 2018
2017
- “Milčik“ Award Finals for 2017 at Dado gallery - Cetinje, Montenegro
- AESTHETICS OF THE INTIMATE, Festival Danube Dialogues 2017, Gallery of the Vojvodina Artist Association, Novi Sad, Serbia
- September 2017 AIR Cultural City Network Graz (CCN) - international art projects, Austria.
- From a field of ten artists, Ivana has been chosen to participate in the Residential programme “arTwins in Open Space” due to be held in Paphos, Cyprus; European Capital of Culture 2017
2016
- Artist-in-residence KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre, Ii, Oulu, Finland in 2016
- July 2016, Ivana held an exhibition entitled “Between Art and Nature“ in the Media Nox gallery in Slovenia.
- She also participated in the 25th anniversary of “Process-Space Art Festival” in 2016, held in Russe, Bulgaria.
2015
- The Directorate of the “Biennale for Young European and Mediterranean Artists” (BJCEM), headed by artistic director and art historian Andrea Bruciati, selected Ivana’s work to represent Montenegro in the event ‘Mediterranea XVII Young Artists Biennale in Milan (2015)
- September 2015 she held a solo exhibition called The Hollow Men - Burning Way in Radoje Dakic (a former factory hall), in Podgorica, as a part of celebration of the 30th anniversary of FIAT This exhibition “The Hollow Men-Burning Way” then transferred to the Kolarac Foundation Gallery in Belgrade
- September 2015 she had a solo exhibition hosted by the “Association of Fine and Applied Artists“ in Kraljevo
- May she had a solo exhibition “Burning Way“ hosted by the Shooting Association of Ljubovic, Podgorica 2015
2014
- December 2014 a further exhibition of her sculptures and drawings was held in the gallery ULUCG, Podgorica.
- In August of the same year an exhibition of her sculptures and drawings was displayed in the gallery Marko K. Gregovic in Petrovac
2013
- 2013 Ivana started attending her Ph.D. courses at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
2010
- July 2010 Ivana held an individual exhibition in the gallery for the “Association of Fine Arts “ in Novi Beograd (New Belgrade).
- In June of the same year she also held an individual exhibition at the SPA Gallery of the Simo Milosevic Institute in Igalo.
2009
- December 2009 Ivana had an individual exhibition Movement as Expression held in ULUCG, Podgorica.
- In July of that year, her exhibition of drawings Behind the Mirror was held in the Gallery Centar, in Podgorica.
2008
- November 2008 Ivana had another individual exhibition in SKC Obrenovac.
2007
- October 2007 Ivana stayed in Santa Severina, Italy as a guest teacher, and had her first individual exhibition here.
2005–2006
- From 2005 till 2006 she was a guest student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.




