Marko Kusmuk

Marko Kusmuk was born in Sarajevo on 15 February 1985. He graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 2007. He completed a master’s degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome in 2008 under Professor Desiderio Sanzi, with “Rana renesansa Asizija”.

In 2011 he enrolled in an interdisciplinary master’s programme in art and media theory at the University of Arts under Professor Miško Šuvaković. He completed doctoral studies in 2016 with the dissertation “Likovna dekonstrukcija u dualizmu lica i naličja”.

He received First Prize in Drawing from the Vladimir Veličković Foundation and the Grand Prize of ULUS on its centenary. He also received a drawing award, Golden Lion, at the Venice Land exhibition in Venice. He is an independent artist working in painting and drawing.