About The Artist

Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (1980) is a contemporary artist from Croatia with a focus on drawing and printmaking. Her work reflects mystical, spiritual and profoundly personal experiences of the world, life, man and nature, illustrated on a symbolic level. 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 contemporary realm. She participated in number of juried printmaking competitions and biennales in both the traditional and contemporary printmaking disciplines. Her works were shown at solo and group exhibitions in Europe (Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy and France), the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and Japan. After obtaining the 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 is working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb. Kičinbači was awarded the International Prize Leonardo da Vinci in 2023 at the National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo da Vinci" in Milan, Italy. She received International Jury Award (2nd place) on International Art Competition Lounge 2022 in Germany as well as Amber Award – Print in 2021.