Sead Čerkez

Sead Čerkez was born in Foča in 1948. His first experience of watercolour painting came during secondary school. He graduated in fine arts from the Pedagogical Academy in Sarajevo. He worked in Hamid Lukovac’s studio in 1969 and as an illustrator at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1973 to 1988, attaining the position of professional associate. He is a member of ULUBiH and ULUPUBiH.

He participated in painting colonies in Ozalj, Karlovac, Bjelašnica, Travnik, Zrenjanin, Slavonski Brod and Bosanski Brod, Bosanska Krupa, Krušnica, Tjentište, Počitelj, Koprivnik and Gorjuše, Mojstrana and Glažuta in Pohorje. He undertook a study trip to Greece in 1974. Alongside watercolour, he works in oils, printmaking, arabesque painting, drawing and design.