Tanja Softić
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{{Infobox person
| name = Tanja Softić
| image =Tanja Softić.png
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1966|4|6}}
| birth_place = Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
| education = Academy of Fine Arts University of Sarajevo, Old Dominion University
| occupation = Artist
| years_active = 1985–present
| website = {{URL|tanjasoftic.com}}
}}
Tanja Softić is a Bosnian-American visual artist and art educator who works in media of drawing, printmaking, painting and photography. She is Professor of Art Practice in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Richmond.{{cite web |title=Ms. Tanja Softić |url=https://art.richmond.edu/faculty/tsoftic/ |website=Art & Art History - University of Richmond |access-date=16 May 2023 |language=en}}
Personal life and career
Tanja Softić was born In 1966 in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.{{cite web |title=Tanja Softic |url=https://tamarind.unm.edu/artist/tanja-softic/ |website=Tamarind Institute |access-date=1 February 2023}} She attended the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Sarajevo and Old Dominion University.{{cite web |title=Tanja Softic´ |url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/tanja_softic/ |website=U.S. Department of State |access-date=1 February 2023}}
Softić emigrated to the United States in 1989 and now has American citizenship.{{cite web |last1=Sargent |first1=Sarah |title=Itinerant Eyes |url=https://www.virginialiving.com/culture/itinerant-eyes/ |website=Virginia Living |access-date=16 May 2023 |language=en-us |date=16 June 2011}}
Softić's work is in the Auckland Art Gallery,{{cite web |title=Tanja Softic |url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/2042?q=%2Fexplore-art-and-ideas%2Fartist%2F2042%2F |website=Auckland Art Gallery |access-date=16 May 2023 |language=en}} and the Print Collection of The New York Public Library.{{cite web |title=Gravity |url=https://wallachprintsandphotos.nypl.org/catalog/20104 |website=Wallach Prints and Photos |publisher=New York Public Library |access-date=16 May 2023}}
In 2011 her work was included in the exhibition Migrant Universe at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art.{{cite web |title=ODU Alumna’s Artwork Featured at College of Charleston Exhibition |url=https://www.odu.edu/article/odu-alumnas-artwork-featured-at-college-of-charleston-exhibition |website=Old Dominion University |access-date=17 May 2023 |language=en |date=12 September 2022}} In 2012 Softić has a solo Walter Gropius Master Artist Exhibit at the Huntington Museum of Art.{{cite web |title=Walter Gropius Master Artist Exhibit: Tanja Softić |url=https://www.hmoa.org/art/exhibition/walter-gropius-master-artist-exhibit-tanja-softi |website=Huntington Museum of Art |access-date=17 May 2023}} Her work is included in the 2020 virtual exhibition Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home at the Halsey Institute.{{cite web |title=Tanja Softić : Displacements |url=https://displacements.org/artists/tanja-softic/ |website=displacements.org |publisher=Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art |access-date=16 May 2023}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/pyramidatlantic/artist/tanja-softic images of Softić's work] at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
- [https://issuu.com/tcva/docs/tanjagg Gallery Guide from Gathered from Available Data] at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
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Category:University of Richmond faculty
Category:Artists from Sarajevo
Category:Old Dominion University alumni
Category:Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
Category:University of Sarajevo alumni
Category:Artists from Richmond, Virginia
Category:American women printmakers