Igor Zidić

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Igor Zidić (born 10 February 1939{{cite book |author= Draško Ređep |editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=Matica srpska |language=sh |location= Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) |pages=587 }}) is a Croatian art historian, art critic, poet and essayist. He is considered an expert on Croatian modern art.{{cite web |url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/43074/igor-zidic-devetnaest-opasnih-godina-karizmaticnog-modernista |title=Igor Zidić - devetnaest opasnih godina karizmatičnog modernista |trans-title=Igor Zidić – Nineteen perilous years of a charismatic modernist |language=Croatian |author=Nina Ožegović |work=Nacional |date=25 February 2008 |accessdate=22 July 2012 |archivedate=6 April 2012 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406191721/http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/43074/igor-zidic-devetnaest-opasnih-godina-karizmaticnog-modernista }}

Zidić was born in Split, where he graduated from the Classical Gymnasium. He obtained a diploma in art history and comparative literature from the University of Zagreb in 1964. Zidić became the editor of Hrvatski tjednik in 1971, but lost his job after the magazine was shut down by the Yugoslavian government.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

Zidić was a director of Modern Gallery in Zagreb from 1989 to 2008.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} From 2002–14, he was the president of Matica hrvatska. In 1986, Zidić received the Tin Ujević Award for poetry.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhk.hr/Stranica.aspx?id=12|title=Nagrada "Tin Ujević"|work=dhk.hr|language=Croatian|accessdate=16 March 2014}}

Zidić is a father of six children.