Franović Toni – Pjaceta

Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15, 1967. He has been drawing and painting since early childhood and has exhibited 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 was employed at the ‘Arad Arts Project’ in Arad, where he taught painting. During the academic year 1994/95, he spent time at the American University, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C., where he lectured on the spirituality of art. At the end of 1995, he was hired as a junior assistant at the painting and drawing department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he taught life drawing and plein air painting 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, among others. His significant artistic works 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 part of numerous private and public collections, as well as the holdings of several museums in Europe, America, and Israel. He has held more than one hundred solo exhibitions. He is a member of HDLU, Zuh-a Beit Omanim (the community of visual artists of Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.