I am a Serbian-American interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. I graduated from UC Irvine in 2025 with a BA in Art and Art History minor. Through painting, sculpture, and video performance, my work focuses on grief and the alienation from life that often follows traumatic events.
Grappling with mortality is an undercurrent to my work, stemming from the experience of having multiple close family members get sick and pass away in a short period of time. I focus on objects that people important to me have interacted with as well as the physicality of grief that manifests in the body.
I place an artistic importance on personal history through family and lived experiences. Being first-generation American, I was raised in the Serbian-Orthodox church and with my grandparents' war and fathers immigration stories. My work acts as an echo of lives previously lived through these experiences. The pieces themselves become a ritual for healing and a space to use recognizable objects in unfamiliar ways, similar to the way that grief leaves one feeling about life.