Franović Toni – City Views 1

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 in the Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated in 1990. In 1993, he was employed at the “Arad Arts Project” in Arad where he taught painting. During the academic year 1994/95, he stayed at the American University, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C., where he taught the spirituality of art. At the end of 1995, he was hired as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Painting and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he taught figure drawing and painting from nature until 2004. He has been a guest lecturer at the Kresge 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 municipality building in Zagreb, the Or Kodesh Jewish center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Oxnam Church in Washington D.C., the WUJS Institute in Arad, Israel, and others. His paintings and works are part of numerous private and public collections and the holdings of several museums in Europe, America, and Israel. He has held over one hundred solo exhibitions. He is a member of HDLU, Zuh Beit Omanim (the community of visual artists in Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.