Endi Poskovic

Endi Poskovic's prints reflect on the strategies of classic ukiyo-e prints, early cinema, devotional pictures, and Eastern European propaganda posters by merging visual representation with text, often shifting the reading of the imagery through continuous representation and re-contextualization. Poskovic's amalgam of diverse imagery and visual narratives imply accounts from personal and social histories and reference themes of cultural and environmental shifts, migration and alienation that are at once magnificent and dystopian.

Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1969, Poskovic is a gradate of The Sarajevo School of Music (Primary Music Diploma 1982-86), The Sarajevo School of Applied Arts (Diploma in Fine Arts 1983-86) and The University of Sarajevo-Academy of Fine Arts (B.F.A. 1986-90). After a year of study in Norway (1990-91) on a grant from the Norwegian Government, Poskovic moved to the United States to continue his education. He holds his graduate degree in printmedia from State University of New York at Buffalo (M.F.A. 1991-93) where he studied with Harvey Breverman and Adele Henderson.

Poskovic has represented the United States in major international print biennales and triennials in Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Estonia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, and most recently at the Krakow International Print Triennial, la Biennale internationale d'estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Egyptian International Print Triennial, Deutsche Internationale Grafik Triennale Frechen, Tallinn International Triennial, Xylon International, and Ljubljana International Biennale. Comprehensive surveys of Poskovic’s prints have been organized by the Philadelphia Print Center, Des Moines Art Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Interlochen Arts Academy Dow Center for the Arts, Plains Art Museum and, most recently, the Frans Masereel Centrum, which traveled to Stad Leuven Academie en Conservatorium and Atelier Vrije Grafiek, Academie voor Beeldende Kunst-Ghent.

Poskovic is the recipient of over 70 grants, fellowships and prizes including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Durfee Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Art Matters Foundation, Kala Art Institute, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, New York State Arts Council, Indiana Arts Commission, Flemish Ministry of Culture -Frans Masereel Center (Belgium), Valparaiso Foundation (Spain), Camargo Foundation (France), Can Serrat International Art Centre (Spain), Norwegian Government, and the Open Studio Centre (Canada).

His works are in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Royal Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Cairo, Egypt; Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University; New Orleans Museum of Art; Orange County Museum of Art, California; Kennedy Museum of American Art; the University of Iowa Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Seattle Arts Commission; Tampa Museum of Fine Arts; Vaasa Ostrobothnian Museum, Finland; Musée d'Art Contemporain Fernet Branca-Saint-Louis, France and numerous other museum and public collections in the US and abroad.

Poskovic is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor School of Art and Design. He has lectured as a visiting artist at universities throughout the United States and abroad, and has served on faculty at Daemen College, Ball State University, California State University-Long Beach, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Columbia College Chicago, and Whittier College.