Šimrak Robert – Red Smoke

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1967. Robert graduated in graphic design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the class of Professor A. Kuduz in 1992. Afterwards he worked as an independent artist and a member of the Alliance of Croatian Artists and Croatian Association of Artists. He is deeply engaged in graphic design and illustration and works as graphics editor in Vjesnik newspaper. He has exhibited his work since 1989 in about fifty individual shows and almost two hundred group shows in the country and abroad – in Lisbon, Cairo, Krakow, Oldenburg, Vienna and Bophal in India. He has received many awards and acknowledgements for his artistic achievement and his social work, including the Ministry of Culture Award at the third Triennial of Croatian Graphic Design, the City of Zagreb Award and the Vjesnik Award for the best individual exhibition show in Croatia He has been on many study tours to India, Egypt, France, Italy, Germany, Morocco and Austria. Many museums and galleries in Croatia exhibit his works. From 2001 to 2003 he was the chair of the Croatian Association of Artists, and in 2005 was appointed an assistant teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has worked as an associate professor in the Graphics Department, teaching graduate and postgraduate courses on the Graphic Design module In 2006 he was appointed a Vice-dean at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and since 2011 has worked as the Chair of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb He participates in numerous committees of the University, arts councils and panels. His monograph was published in 2012 by AM Kontura.