Amer Kobaslija

He was born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia in 1975.[1][2] He left Bosnia in 1993, then spent time in a German refugee camp. In 1997 he immigrated to Florida.[3][2][4] He received an MFA degree in painting from Montclair State University.[5]

Amer Kobaslija is a Bosnian-American painter.

In 2012 he executed a series of paintings dealing with the destruction wrought by the 2011 Japanese Tsunami.[6][7]

He was a 2019 nominee for the Orlando Museum of Art's 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art.[8] Kobaslija was a 2013 Guggenheim fellow.[9] Kobaslija is an assistant professor of art at University of Central Florida.[10]

References
  1. https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20160419/NEWS/801246690
  2. "MOCA: Amer Kobaslija: A Sense of Place".
  3. "Amer Kobaslija's Paintings Imagine the Future of the Gulf Coast Landscape". 2019-10-17.
  4. "AMER KOBASLIJA Places, Spaces; a Survey of Paintings 2005 – 2015". 2015-11-05.
  5. Johnson, Ken (2006-06-30). "Art in Review; Amer Kobaslija". The New York Times.
  6. "Recalling nature's fury abstractly in oils". 2013-12-10.
  7. "EXHIBIT PREVIEW: The Leslie Lerner Legacy".
  8. ": Lowe's Tubes".
  9. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Amer Kobaslija".
  10. "Fourth SVAD faculty member selected as 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art finalist".
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