NIKSIC DAMIR

MFA 2004 New Genre, University of Arizona, School of Art
MA 2004 Art History, University of Arizona, School of Art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007
SYSTEM ERROR: WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING, Palazzo Papesse Centre for Contemporary Art, Siena, Italy

2006
ATTITUDE, video/short & experimental film/photography festival, Cultural Center MAGAZA, Bitola, Macedonia
NEW BOSNIAN CINEMA, Riverside Studios, London_(o)granicenja, Galerija SC, Zagreb, Croatia
Boogeyman: Born Free, solo exhibition, Galerija 10m2, Sarajevo, B&H
Eastern Neighbors, Babel center, Utrecht, Netherlands_
Permanent Presence, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
Sarai, solo exhibition, New Temple Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H

2005
COLLECTIVE vs INDIVIDUAL, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
If I Wasn’t Muslim, Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, New Temple Gallery, Sarajevo, B&H; National Museum of Montenegro, Studio DADO, Cetinje, Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Venice Biennial, Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Dom Mladih, Sarajevo
Damir Niksic, White Project Arte Contemporanea, Pescara, Italy
Coabitazioni Coatte / Compulsory Cohabitations, CACTicino Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland

2004
Mediterraneans, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Orhideja, 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro
The Balkans: A Crossroads to the Future, Arte Fiera, Bologna (curator H. Szeemann)

2003
50th Venice Biennial: Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice (curator F. Bonami)
Blood and Honey, Vienna, Austria (curator H. Szeemann)

2002
Searching for Identity, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo

2000
What am I doing here? Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Balkan Art Generator, Cultural Center De Zeyp, Brussels

1999
Under Construction, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina,_Sarajevo (curator Dunja BlaÏevic)

1998
Sarajevo 2000, Pallais Lichtenstein, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (curator Lorand Hegyi)

GRAND/AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS 

2006
Prohelvetia Artist Grant, Sarajevo

2003
Medici Scholar Award, University of Arizona
University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant
University of Arizona Art History Graduate Division Travel Grant; Halderman Scholarship, University of Arizona
Scholarship for and Artist with a Unique Approach, University of Arizona

2002
Halderman Scholarship, University of Arizona

2001
Anne Moreton Scholarship, University of Arizona
George H. Amos Scholarship, University of Arizona
Edward Francis Dunn Scholarship, University of Arizona

1998
1st prize for installation in the Beyond the Mirror: Second Annual_Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Sarajevo