RELJA PENEZIC is a painter, video artist, printmaker, photographer, and a filmmaker focusing on public art installations. His work is a multimedia blend that combines technology and painting, performance and video, art and craft. Penezic exhibits his work internationally and his short films are regularly shown at film festivals throughout the world. In 1996 Zakros InterArts label Chronic Art published his CD-ROM Computer Film Sketchbook. His 2002 Audio/Video installation in collaboration with composer Victoria Jordanova at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art entitled Panopticon was published by ArpaViva label as a DVD and is distributed by Cinema Guild of New York. His paintings and media pieces are part of numerous private and public collections in the US, Europe and Japan. In 2004 he was selected by Alaska Arts Council to create a permanent media installation The Alaska Cycle, a video landscape. In 2005 and 2006 he finished two large scale site specific paintings Alaska Time-Lapse and Views of Tundra for the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, commissioned by Alaska Arts Council. Relja Penezic is a cofounder of ARTaVIVA, company/curatorial project dedicated to promotion of audio/video art as a permanent installation medium. From 2007 his work is regularly shown on Souvenirs from Earth, the first Cable TV station broadcasting a 24/7 program of Film and Video art, transforming bigger flat screens into an art terminal, giving access to the avant-garde of visual culture, available on French and German cable TV networks. In addition to an international career as an artist he served as a Creative Director for ID8, Los Angeles based branding agency, an Art Director and a Designer for Jump Ship Studios, San Francisco, and a Designer/Visual Effects Artist for Fleet Street Pictures of San Francisco. Relja Penezic was also a Master Printmaker for John Nichols Printmakers of New York specializing in silk-screen and lithography limited editions. He was a lecturer at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Princeton University School of Architecture, Haverford College, and Bowling Green State University.

SELECTED SHOWS OF MEDIA WORK AND FILM FESTIVALS:

2011 - Desert Palace (Navajo) by Relja Penezic and Victoria Jordanova presented as a part of No Dialogue video art show at ArtPadSF art fair, San Francisco, CA
2010 - Entering the 4th Dimension: TIME, video Snow Drift Was Here At Some Point In Time by Relja Penezic and Victoria Jordanova presented at Barcelona Art Contemporary Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2010 - Videos from Fragments of Unused Time projected during the live performance by Jenny Q Chai at The Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
2010 - Mechanistic, group show, video installations and prints from Fragments of Unused Time series. Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 - Between-Interval, videos from Fragments of Unused Time shown during the live performance by Jenny Q Chai at Roulette, New York, NY
2009 - Green Factory, group show, two video installations of videos from Fragments of Unused Time series. Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
2009 - Fragments of Unused Time, solo show, multiple video installations and support materials such as sketches, paintings, photographs...etc., Magacin Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2008-9 - Fragments of Unused Time presented as four channel video installation adapted for e4c, 4Culture’s electronic storefront gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 - Miracle and Snow Drift videos, le:60, Lumen Eclipse, shown on a pair of large outdoor video screens in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
2008 - Replica, group show, video installations and prints from Fragments of Unused Time series. Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 - Film Noir and Fragments of Unused Time presentation and lecture at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and the Maryland Film Festival Annual Spring Film Series, Baltimore, Mariland
2007 - Redeye, Single Channel Video,Trunk/The Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden
2007 - Redeye, Single Channel Installation, Perpetual Art Machine at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2007 - Video Landscapes, Bridge Art Fair, Chicago, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 - Video Landscapes, The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology, Waste & the Natural World Show. The exhibition is co-curated by Rebecca Wilson from the Saatchi Gallery and Isabella Macpherson, director of arts programming at Adventure Ecology. London, England
2005 - Winfield Gallery, ARTaVIVA Video Landscapes, Carmel, CA
2002 - Panopticon, video installation and performance, L.A. County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002 - Panopticon, video installation and performance, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Forum, San Francisco, CA
1999 - Transmediale 99, International Media Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany
1998 - ResFest New York, New York
1997 - ResFest London, London, England
1997 - Montreal International Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
1997 - The Lumiere Festival of Interactive Film and Storytelling
1996 - Mill Valley Film Festival
1996 - San Francisco International Film Festival
1996 - Rotherdam International Film Festival, Rotherdam, Holland
1996 - Low Res Film Festival, Kitchen, New York, NY
1995 - Low Res Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
1994 - Chronic Art, New Music Theater/Zakros InterArts, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009 - Fragments of Unused Time, solo show, multiple video installations and support materials such as sketches, paintings, photographs...etc., Magacin Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2001 - LeArsi Gallery, Palm Dessert, CA
1992 - Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 - Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1988 - Uddoh Gallery, New York, NY
1987 - Currents Gallery, Bowling Green, OH (also 1985)
1983 - Cultural Center Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1981 - Gallery Una, Geneva, Switzerland (also 1979)
1979 - Gallery 212, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1979 - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (also 1978)

SELECTED COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCES:

2010-11 - Le Meridien Arrival Artwork project, Le Meridien International Hotels. Curated by Souvenirs from Earth TV. Part of the LM100 program.
2009 - Video Cargo commissioned and purchased by George R. Brown Convention Center Video Collection, Houston, Texas.
2008-9 - Selected to develop work for e4c, 4Culture’s electronic storefront gallery premier season. e4c consists of four LCD monitors located adjacent to Gallery4Culture facing Prefontaine Place South in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood. This new street-level media gallery is visible by foot, bike, car or bus to more than 20,000 people each day (as estimated by Metro Transit), Seattle, WA
2005-6 - Site-specific painting Views of Tundra for the Alaska Psychiatric Institute Percent for Art Project, Commissioned by Alaska State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, Alaska.
2005 - Finalist for Sava Pool Public Art Project, San Francisco Arts Commission
2004 - Selected by Alaska State Council on the Arts for site-specific media installation for the the Department of Environmental Conservation Percent for Art Project, Anchorage, Alaska
2003-5 - Site-specific painting Alaska Time-Lapse for the Alaska Psychiatric Institute Percent for Art Project, Commissioned by Alaska State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, Alaska.
2002 - Jump Ship Studios, site specific installation, San Francisco, CA.
1989 - Site-specific large scale painting, private collector commission, Bloomfield Hills, MI,
1985-86 - Artist-in-Residence, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH
1976-79 - French Government Fellowship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2008 - Adriana Grant, Storefront Video Installation Works Best in Short, Colorful Bursts, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 11
2007 - Alissa Simon, Film Noir, Variety: "Self-discovery is a dangerous business in "Film Noir," a stylish, sexually explicit adult animation that plays like "The Big Sleep" meets "Fritz the Cat." Using 3-D animation techniques, the toon cleverly captures the conventions of the eponymous genre and transfers them to graphic form with panache. Witty Los Angeles-set tale of a beleaguered gumshoe, seductive femme fatales, a ruthless millionaire and shady plastic surgeon should put debuting writer-helmer D. Jud Jones and co-director-chief animator Risto Topaloski on everyone's wanted list. Potential cult item could play arthouses and college campuses worldwide, with a killer afterlife on the tube and DVD.", August 13
2007 - Adbusters Magazine, Cargo Ship, video still, September/October issue, Vancouver, Canada
2007 - Vaughan, Adam, London gallery opens eco exhibition, New Consumer Magazine, London,
England, Jan. 25
2005 - Crawford Watson, Lisa, Video Paintings, Monterey County Herald, Aug. 04, 2005
2005 - Demer, Lisa, API Artwork Offers Aura For Healing, Anchorage Daily News, June 3rd
2004 - Leonardo Reviews, Panopticon, Reviewed by Mike Leggett, December
2004 - Spillman, Nancy Z, Panopticon, Library Journal: "...This sophisticated video would be the choice of civil libertarians, ethicists, and academicians of all stripes." February 01
2002 - Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times: "Doomsday humor delirious blend of video and music sardonic charm rewiring of folk music" November 26
1998 - Millie Takaki, UC Berkeley Provides Bear Necessities, Shoot Magazine, October 16. p. 13
1996 - Lu, Alvin, Lobby Dreams, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 24, p.43
1996 - Shoot Magazine, Fleet Street Reaches California Divide, April 5, p.1
1996 - Film/Tape World, Fleet Street splits, Jump Ship sets sail, San Francisco, April, p.20
1996 - Entertainment Tonight, Syndicated TV Show, January 27, Segment on Low Budget Hollywood
1994 - Shoot Magazine, May 16
1993 - Ilene Susan Fort and Skolnick, Arnold, Paintings of California, Random House, New York, p.110
1992 - Introductions, 92, Artweek, San Francisco, August 6, p.20
1992 - Huddlesto, Joanne, San Francisco Art Dealers Association Galleries Open Doors to New Artists, San Francisco Arts Monthly, July, p1
1990 - Architecture Aujourdhui, Paris, France, September
1987 - Van Alst, Julia, Yugoslav’s Works Offer Fresh View of Midwest, Blade, Toledo, OH, February 19
1984 - Nikolic, Tanja, Relja Penezic, Yugoslav Review, October
1981 - Journal de la Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland, May 18
1979 - La Suisse, Geneva, Switzerland, July 29

EDUCATION:

1977 - MFA, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1975 - BFA, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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