CURRICULUM VITAE
Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (1980) is a contemporary artist from Croatia with a focus on drawing and printmaking.
An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality are at the heart of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the interference and coherence of soul and body, spiritual and material, space and time, and the struggle for inner freedom in the contemporary realm.
Kičinbači was honoured with the Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award by Contemporary Art Collectors in 2024. In 2023, she received the International Leonardo da Vinci Prize in Milan (Italy), the Contemporary Art Collectors Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize, the Effeto Arte Foundation International Career Art Prize, the Circle Foundation's Artistic Excellence Award, as well as the Diamond Award 2023 (Germany). In 2022, she received the International Jury Award at the International Art Competition Lounge in Germany, as well as the Amber Award for Print in 2021. She won the Bernstein Printmaking Prize in 2022.
Kičinbači has a PhD in art. She completed her doctoral studies in the field of painting at the University of Mostar's Academy of Fine Arts, where she defended her thesis Drawing in Contemporary Art as a Medium for Expressing the Transcendent. After obtaining an MA in graphic arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb (Croatia), she earned a master's degree from the postgraduate study of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (Slovenia). She works as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb. She participated in many juried printmaking competitions and biennales in both the traditional and contemporary printmaking disciplines. Her works were shown at solo and group exhibitions in Europe (including Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, and Italy), the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan.
She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).
CURRICULUM VITAE
Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (1980) is a contemporary artist from Croatia with a focus on drawing and printmaking.
An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality are at the heart of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the interference and coherence of soul and body, spiritual and material, space and time, and the struggle for inner freedom in the contemporary realm.
Kičinbači was honoured with the Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award by Contemporary Art Collectors in 2024. In 2023, she received the International Leonardo da Vinci Prize in Milan (Italy), the Contemporary Art Collectors Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize, the Effeto Arte Foundation International Career Art Prize, the Circle Foundation's Artistic Excellence Award, as well as the Diamond Award 2023 (Germany). In 2022, she received the International Jury Award at the International Art Competition Lounge in Germany, as well as the Amber Award for Print in 2021. She won the Bernstein Printmaking Prize in 2022.
Kičinbači has a PhD in art. She completed her doctoral studies in the field of painting at the University of Mostar's Academy of Fine Arts, where she defended her thesis Drawing in Contemporary Art as a Medium for Expressing the Transcendent. After obtaining an MA in graphic arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb (Croatia), she earned a master's degree from the postgraduate study of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (Slovenia). She works as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb. She participated in many juried printmaking competitions and biennales in both the traditional and contemporary printmaking disciplines. Her works were shown at solo and group exhibitions in Europe (including Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, and Italy), the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan.
She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).
ABOUT
“Her works captivate with their subtlety of diffuse light, attentiveness of performance, layered meaning, rendering the entire network of existence and evanescence, degradation, and genesis, while everything is reflected in hyper-aestheticized motifs of minimalist formal visual and artistic elements. They simply become and remain permanent symbols of the zeitgeist. The works, in the absence of figures and "saturated" content, reflect mystical, spiritual, and extremely personal experiences of the world, life, man, and nature, illustrated on a symbolic level.”
Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD /Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb
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Article by Kičinbači on her artistic practice: Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View Religions 2023, 14(10), 1279; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14101279 - 10 Oct 2023
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ABOUT
“Her works captivate with their subtlety of diffuse light, attentiveness of performance, layered meaning, rendering the entire network of existence and evanescence, degradation, and genesis, while everything is reflected in hyper-aestheticized motifs of minimalist formal visual and artistic elements. They simply become and remain permanent symbols of the zeitgeist. The works, in the absence of figures and "saturated" content, reflect mystical, spiritual, and extremely personal experiences of the world, life, man, and nature, illustrated on a symbolic level.”
Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD /Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb
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Article by Kičinbači on her artistic practice: Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View Religions 2023, 14(10), 1279; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14101279 - 10 Oct 2023
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Beatrice Cordaro, ArtistJourney magazine, Internal Geographies—Ivana Gagić Kičinbači, https://www.artistjourneymag.com/internal-geographies-ivana-gagic-kicinbaci/, Mar 11, 2025
Angela Li, ATTONAU, Ivana Gagić Kičinbači: Art as a Path to Inner Freedom, October 26, 2024 https://aatonau.com/ivana-gagic- kicinbaci-art-as-a-path-to-inner-freedom/
Beatrice Cordaro, ArtistJourney magazine, Ivana Gagić Kičinbači—Conceptual diary, https://www.artistjourneymag.com/ivana-gagic-kicinbaci/ Nov 23, 2024
Daniella Abrams, Transcending Boundaries: The Metaphysical and Existential Art of Ivana Gagić Kičinbači, review on Contemporary Art Collectors, 2024. https://www.contemporary-art-collectors.com/art-insights/ivana-gagic-kicinbaci-review
Alessia Perone, Flowing through art, memory, and imagination, ARTEOMASTERPIECES Art Catalog Vol. 1, May 24, Arteom Gallery, 2024.
Baetrice Cordaro, Review, ArtistJourney magazine, Issue 1, Sept/Nov 2024, Studioarte22, Palermo, Italy (2024)
Beatrice Cordaro, Review, Contemporary Art Explore—4 Master Artists Edition, a book on contemporary art, Palermo: Studioarte22, 2024, ISBN 978-88-947534-3-1
Beatrice Cordaro, Review, Contemporary Art Explore—3 Master Artists Edition, a book on contemporary art Palermo: Studioarte22, 2024, ISBN 978-88-947534-2-4
Beatrice Cordaro, Review, Contemporary Art Explore—2 Master Artists Edition, a book on contemporary art Palermo: Studioarte22, 2024.
Biography Contemporary Art Vol 2. International Book, ISBN 978-88-947862-3-1, La Notizia, Piacenza, Italy, 2024.
Calogero Cordaro, Beauty and Wonder, in: Biography-Contemporary art, an online volume of international contemporary art, ISBN 978-88-947862-0-0, La Notizia, Piacenza Italy, 2023.
Kurt Ries (ed.), “Magic of La Bohème: An Homage to Paris and Puccini”, English, German, Re Di Roma-Verlag: Germany, 2023.
HARMONY FOR HUMANITY The Global Consciousness Art Prize Catalogue by Contemporary Art Collectors, Barcelona, Spain, 2023.
NOON-CHI - K-Art International, Studioarte22 - Art texts and reviews: Beatrice Cordaro (art historian and art curator), Italy, 2023.
Gabriele Walter (ed.), Animal Worlds of Art, ISBN978-3-98527-666-0, English, German, Re Di Roma-Verlag: Germany, 2022.
Gabriele Walter (ed.), Artbook project "Excellent Art 2022 - Exzellente Kunst 2022", English, German, Re Di Roma-Verlag: Germany, 2022.
Kurt Ries (ed.), “Odyssey of Life: Homage to Homer”, English, German, Re Di Roma-Verlag: Germany, 2022.
Gabriele Walter (ed.), “Fairytale Art for Mozart”, English, German, Re Di Roma-Verlag: Germany, 2022.
Art Investment & Collectors' Guide 2025: Most Investable and Prominent Artists by Contemporary Art Collectors (2025).
ArtistJourney magazine, Issue 2 – Dec/Feb 2025, Studioarte22, Palermo, Italy (2025)
The Luxury Collection of Contemporary Artistry. Contemporary Art Collectors Magazine, Issue Nº1, Spring (2024).
ArtistJourney magazine (Featured artist), Issue 1, Art magazine that explores contemporary art at 360 degrees, Sept/Nov 2024, Studioarte22, Palermo, Italy (2024)
Contemporary Art Curator Magazine Issue 2 / 2025, Visionaries: Artists Shaping the Future. Creative Catalysts for Change: Artistic Activism (2024).
36th edition of Spotlight, Contemporary Art Magazine, an exclusive curation of 100 fine artists from around the globe (2024) Artecomunica, Bimestrale d’Arte moderna e contemporanea internazionale, n. 2 – anno 3, March-April, La Notizia publishing house, Piacenza, Italy (2024).
Artecomunica, Bimestrale d’Arte moderna e contemporanea internazionale, n. 6 – anno 2, Novembre-Dicembre, La Notizia publishing house, Piacenza, Italy (2023).
Artecomunica, Bimestrale d’Arte moderna e contemporanea internazionale, n. 5 – anno 2, Settembre-Ottobre, La Notizia publishing house, Piacenza, Italy (2023).
Artecomunica, Bimestrale d’Arte moderna e contemporanea internazionale, n. 4 – anno 2 Luglio - Agosto, La Notizia publishing house, Piacenza, Italy (2023).
Contemporary celebrity masters, vol. 5, Fondazione Effeto Arte: Palermo (2023)
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2025, 1st Prize book design award, project "Landscapes for William Turner", editor: Kurt Ries, Germany
2024, Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award by Contemporary Art Collectors
2024, Honorable Mention, book design award, artbook project and contest “Inspiration Venice”, Language: English, German, editor: Kurt Ries, publisher: Re Di Roma-Verlag, Germany
2023, Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize Awarded by Contemporary Art Collectors
2023, International Prize Leonardo da Vinci, Curated by Dr. Salvatore Russo and Dr. Francesco Saverio Russo, National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan, Italy
2023, Career Art Award 2023, the Artistic Career Prize awarded by the EFFETTO Arte Foundation, Sanremo, Italy 2023, Artist Excellence Award, Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine Contest Circle Foundation
2023, 2nd Prize design award, "Magic of La Bohème: An Homage to Paris and Puccini", editor: Kurt Riese, Germany 2023, TOP ARTISTS – The Protagonists of Contemporary Art, Capitulary Hall of the Palace of St. Theodore, Venice, Italy
2023, Artistic Excellence Award, Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine Contest, Circle Foundation 2023.
2023, TOP ARTISTS—The Protagonists of Contemporary Art, artwork selected for the art project held on May 18, 2023, at Capitulary Hall of the Palace of St. Theodore, Venice, Italy
2022, 2nd Prize Excellent Art 2022 - Exzellente Kunst 2022, book design award, project and contest “Enter into Art”, Germany
2022, 2nd Prize International Jury Award on International Art Competition "LOUNGE 2022" in Germany
2022, Honorable Mention book design award, the art book project "Odyssey of Life: Homage to Homer", editor: Kurt Ries, Germany 2021, Amber Award – Print, "6th Enter into Art 2020/2021" international competition for small-format prints in Germany