Franović Toni – Rab in a Dream

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 was employed at the “Arad Arts Project” in Arad, where he taught painting. In 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 employed 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 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, and others. His significant artistic interventions in public spaces 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 and Zuh Beit Omanim (the community of visual artists of Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.