Collection: Endi Poskovic
Endi Poskovic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina where he completed a B.F.A. at the Academy of Fine Arts. A Minnefindet Scholarship enabled him to live in Norway studying art for an entire year. From Norway, Poskovic moved to the United States to study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he earned his M.F.A. in printmaking and visual studies.
Poskovic is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, John D. Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy, Confucius Institute, Open Studio, Durfee Foundation, Flemish Ministry of Culture-Frans Masereel Centrum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Can Serrat International Art Centre, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kala Art Institute, Valparaiso Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Camargo Foundation, Indiana Arts Commission, Matters Foundation, New York State Arts Council, and the Norwegian Government.
Poskovic’s work has been selected to represent the United States at the most prestigious venues for prints, most recently in the 14th Taichung International Print Biennial and the 2009 Krakow International Print Triennial, as well as La Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Canada; Egyptian International Print Triennial; Deutsche Internationale Grafik-Triennale, Frechen, Germany; Tallinn International Triennial, Estonia; Xylon International Triennale, France; and the Ljubljana International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Slovenia. Comprehensive surveys of his prints have been organized by the Philadelphia Print Center (2001); the Plains Art Museum (2001); the Des Moines Art Center (2006); the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2007); the Interlochen Arts Academy Dow Center for the Arts (2008); and, again in 2008, by the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium, which traveled to Stad Leuven Academie en Conservatorium and Atelier Vrije Grafiek, Academie voor Beeldende Kunst-Ghent.
Poskovic’s works are in numerous public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Royal Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Cairo, Egypt; Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Republic of China; New Orleans Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Vaasa Ostrobothnian Museum, Finland; Musée d'Art Contemporain Fernet Branca-Saint-Louis, France.