Olja (Olga) Ivanjicki (; 10 May 1931, in PanÃÂevo â 24 June 2009, in Belgrade) was a Serbian painter, sculptor and poet.
Olga Ivanjicki, the daughter of Russian emigrants was born in PanÃÂevo, Danube Banovina. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduated in 1957, and in the same year she was the only woman among the founders of MEDIALA Belgrade, an art group of painters, writers and architects such as Leonid à  ejka, Vladimir VeliÃÂkoviÃÂ, Ljubomir PopoviÃÂ, Miodrag ÃÂuriÃÂ. In 1962, she received a scholarship of the Ford Foundation to pursue her art studies in the United States, and in 1978 she was a selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design.
She had over ninety individual exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. IvanjickiâÂÂs painting was influenced by Symbolism, Surrealism, Pop art and Fantastic art. In the course of her career, the artist received the Vuk Lifetime Achievement Award (Vukova nagrada, 1988), the Seventh of July Award (Sedmojulska nagrada, 1988) and the KariàAward.
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