Franović Toni – Ludbreg 5

Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15, 1967. He has been drawing and painting since early childhood and has been exhibiting since 1989. After three years of studying medicine at the University of Zagreb, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1990. In 1993, he started working at the “Arad Arts Project” in Arad, where he taught painting. During the 1994/95 academic year, he stayed at the “American University, Wesley Theological Seminary” in Washington D.C., where he taught art spirituality. At the end of 1995, he was employed as a junior assistant at the Department of Painting and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he taught figure drawing and painting en plein air until 2004. He gave guest lectures at the “Kresage Academic Center” in Washington D.C., the “School of Visual Arts” in New York, and others. His significant artistic interventions on public buildings include the central building of Nama in Zagreb, the interior of the Jewish Community building in Zagreb, Or Kodesh Jewish Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Oxnam Church in Washington D.C., WUJS Institute in Arad, Israel, and others. His paintings and works are found in numerous private and public collections, as well as in the holdings of several museums in Europe, America, and Israel. He has held over a hundred solo exhibitions. He is a member of HDLU, Zuh-a Beit Omanim (the community of visual artists in Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.