Ivezić Nikolina – I am Too Sexy for the Beach

She was born in 1970 in Zagreb where she also graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design. She then enrolled in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, graduating in 1998 in the class of Prof. E. Kokot. She has exhibited in about thirty solo and one hundred group exhibitions both domestically and abroad. She is the recipient of several awards, including the 1st prize from DAAK, Carlsberg. She works with conceptual art, interior design, illustration, always with socially engaged themes – questioning, i.e., analyzing the patterns imposed by society, criticizing globalization, mass media, and the commercialization of religion. She uses pop art and nudity to caricature society. She became known for designing the ambiances of Zagreb’s Tvornica, Melina, the Faculty of Philosophy café, and is recognizable by her reliefs of women with large breasts made using the technique of colored foam board and thin metal plates. She is a member of HDLU and ZUH, lives and works in Zagreb.