Jelica Jovin, Jurgen-gnome (2024)

Jelica Jovin  
Jurgen-gnome  
2024  
photography 
edition 1 of 3
11 x 8 inches
 
 
Jelica Jovin was born in former Yugoslavia and studied fine art at the University of Belgrade. After graduating, she became an art critic, contributing a weekly column to Oslobodjenje, a national newspaper. In 1993, during the civil war, she and her husband fled Sarajevo and settled in Toronto, Canada. Here she worked as a coordinator for artist exchanges for A Space Gallery, an art administrator at Open Studio, and as an art teacher at The Avenue Road Arts School and the Koffler Centre for the Arts.
 
Jelica has exhibited widely in Canada, including at the MacLaren Art Centre, Museum of Art and History Orillia, Station Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Montgomery’s Inn Historic Museum. She has also participated in residencies in Canada and Europe, most recently at the Pouch Cove International Art Residency (2024) and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2025). Her work explores identity, immigration and migration, and the experience of women in diaspora.