Dražović Matija – Untitled 1

Matija was Born in Zagreb in 1982. He completed the School of Applied Arts and Design in 2000. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2007, receiving the title of academic painter. He works in the field of painting, multimedia and illustration. He exhibited in one individual show (Portraits of the Metamorphosis,ToOnowGradec castle, Slovenia 2006) and several group exhibitions in Zagreb, Zadar and Baden-Baden, where he participated in an art and science conference (11th special focus symposium on icesaks: information, communication and economic sciences and art in the knowledge society at intersymp-2011). Matija has illustrated 13 books published for the Olympics Committee and the“little Sportsmen” project. He was awarded the BEST EXIBITION IN DIGITAL ART AWARD – The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics,Baden Baden, Germany, in 2011. He also gave his noted contribution to the filed of education, running the painting workshop at the August Cesarec Centre in 2006 and teaching painting in the elementary school MatkoLaginja in 2008. He has participated in several colonies and is particularly fond of one work: a Mediterranean monk seal made for cape Kamenjak in 2012. Matija is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) and the Croatian Association of Artists and Art Critics (HULULK). He lives and works in Zagreb.