Croatian-American artist and professor of art Zdenko Krtić maintains studios in Zagreb, Croatia and in Auburn, Alabama, where he resides. In his work the artist explores the intersections of memory, natural history, built environments, weathering and other natural phenomena. His work (consisting mainly of drawings, paintings and scanner photographs) has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country and abroad, and is found in many public and private collections.

The work has been recognized through various exhibition awards and university grants. Krtić has also received a competitive Individual Artist Fellowship awarded by Alabama State Council on the Arts. On two occasions he was commissioned by CNN.com to create work that became a part of the network’s theme-based special editorial features (Ripple- after 9/11 and Power- America’s choice). The artist has completed multiple residencies as an invited visiting artist at the prestigious American Art Academy of Art in Rome, Italy. He has been teaching studio art (painting and drawing) at Auburn University for over twenty-five years.

select exhibition venues

• Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

• University of Arkansas Rome Center, Rome, Italy

• Wiregrass Museum of Art, Alabama

• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama

• Temple University, Temple Rome Campus, Gallery of Art, Rome, Italy

• Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California

• Georgina Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama

• Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee

• Vladimir Nazor Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

• Meridian Museum of Art, Mississippi

• Space 301 Gallery, Mobile, Alabama

• Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska

• Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama

• LaGrange Museum of Art, Georgia

• Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama

• Montclair State University, New Jersey

• Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art, Alabama

  
  
  


recent exhibitions

Afterglow - recent paintings, International Arts Center, Troy University, Alabama, April- August 2023

Wolf-light: new encaustic scanographs, HPL Galleries at Hoover Public Library, Birmingham, Al, October 2022

Faculty Exhibition VII, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, Al, Spring 2022

2021 Aquachrome Biennial - contemporary watercolor paintings, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

upcoming solo exhibitions

New works at Lazareti Art Workshop gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2023

Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, Alabama, July 2024

recent solo exhibitions

Shoulder Surfing: New large pigment prints and small encaustic tondos, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, Al, 2024

Wolf-light/ separating gold from gravel: new encaustic works and scanographs on paper; Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Al, 2019

Rome Drawings – selected works on paper; Palazzo Taverna, University of Arkansas Rome Center, Rome, Italy; 2017

Vernal Pools – recent encaustic paintings on paper, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Temple Rome Campus, Gallery of Art, Rome, Italy; 2015

Before Departure – selected encaustic paintings; Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, Al

Scaffoldings, Screens & Tarmacs - encaustic paintings; Goodwin Gallery, AUM Montgomery, Al

Fault Lines – new encaustic paintings; David Braly Gallery of Art, Montgomery, Al

Published work: Studio Visit, Juried Artist Book, national competition; published by Open Studios Press, Boston, Ma