Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Vesna Pavlović

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Nashville, TN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Vesna Pavlović obtained her M.F.A. degree in visual arts from Columbia University in 2007. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The main theme in her work is the evolving relationship between memory in contemporary culture and the technologies of photographic image production. She examines photographic representation of specific political and cultural histories.

Portrait by Kimi Takesue

Studios

Nef

Vesna Pavlović worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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