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Nina Šumarac (b. Belgrade, ex-YU) is a Cyprus-based intermedia artist with a background in mechanical engineering and painting.

Šumarac's artistic practice delves into the essence of global and biopolitical narratives that shape our collective consciousness. Through a poetic and metaphorical lens, she critically examines and weaves together various social and political issues, challenging the embodiment of socially constructed stereotypes at both personal and collective levels. She aims to foster new ways of thinking and explore alternative perspectives. Drawing upon her passion for engineering, art, and philosophy, her current evolution revolves around intermedia art and new technologies, while integrating (without limiting herself to any specific) the other artistic practices. With the desire to explore healing and empowerment, she is particularly interested in investigating the complexities of human existence in the contemporary era of rapidly advancing technologies. Her work examines ideologies about personal, social, and political boundaries, the intricate relationship between organic and AI organisms/algorithms, and the power dynamics emerging from these discussions.

Šumarac attended the Polytechnic University for New Technologies in New Belgrade, where she pursued studies in mechanical engineering and computer numerical control systems. She holds a BFA from Buckinghamshire New University in the United Kingdom and a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Cyprus College of Art in Larnaca.

Šumarac is a multi-awarded artist. Her project presentations have been supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus, and her works have become part of the State Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cyprus.

 

She has produced individual exhibitions and participated in collective projects globally. Her works have been featured in venues including the CICA Museum in South Korea, Winona State University, USA, NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol, the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, ALP MoCA Bacini dell'Arsenale Nord Venezia, Leopoldo Gotuzzo Art Museum, Brazil, fu: bar Zagreb, Biennial Technology Turin, the Autonomous University of Mexico State UAEMEX, Stuttgart Film Festival, Schafhof Art Forum Freising and at three pavilions of the 6th Wrong Biennale.

 

For more than fifteen years, she has worked at Toonachunks Animation Studio. Additionally, she contributes as a team member to the Lab for Animation Research, a research centre affiliated with the Department of Fine Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology.

 

Education: 

  • 1986–1991 – Computer Numerical Control Systems (CNC Systems), Polytechnic University for New Technologies, New Belgrade

  • 1988–1991 – Painting Certificate, Polytechnic University for New Technologies, New Belgrade
      Tutor: Natasa Brkić

  • 1991–1996 – Mechanical Engineering in CNC Operating Systems, Polytechnic University for New Technologies, New Belgrade

  • 2006–2007 – ASET Certificate in Fine Art, Cyprus College of Art, Limassol

  • 2007–2009 – Painting Studies at Buckinghamshire New University (UK) and the Open College of the Arts (OCA),
      Recipient of the OCA Painting Award

  • 2009–2010 – Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts, Cyprus College of Art, Larnaca

Attended Training Programs​:

  • 2023 – ToolKit of Care (COST Action CA21102), Cyprus University of Technology and NeMe – WG1-TS2
            Topic: Art and social care through social sciences

  • 2023 – Digi-ART – Developing Vocational Education Training Programme Compatible with Metaverse
            Partners: EDI Belgium, Les Créatives de Demain (France), CRU Creative Hub (Portugal), EKA and EFTA (Turkey).
            Co-funded by: Erasmus+ (EU Education and Training Funds)

  • 2024 – ART & POLITICS FOR PLANTS, 5-week online course by Régine Debatty

  • 2025 – The Upskilling Creatives Project (Generative AI focus), co-funded by Cyprus University of Technology and CYENS
            Topics covered: Diffusion-Based Models, Legal & Critical Perspectives, AI-Powered Design & Workflow, Prompt Writing
            Speakers: Giorgos Nikolaou, Ioanna Kyriakidou, Christos Chiotis, Yana Klimava, Tim Neumann, Alexia Achilleos, Symeon Retalis

 

 

Associations:

ULUPDS - The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia

E.KA.TE. (IAA)- The Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts, Nicosia, Cyprus

Phytorio - The Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts, Nicosia, Cyprus

 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2001 Colours and Textures, Old Library, Limassol, CY

2004 Letters Home, Old Library, Limassol, CY

2006 No Place Like Home, Pi, Limassol, CY

2008 My Animal and Other Families at RouanArt Gallery, Limassol

2012 Neometano Zurenje  curated by Natasa Brkic at SKC Novi Beograd, Beograd, SERBIA

2013 Uninterrupted Stare at Rouan Art Gallery Limasso,l opened by Helen Black

2014 Uninterrupted Stare at Altstadthalle Gallery, Zug, Switzerland; opening

2015 Uninterrupted Stare – Daemons at Mala Galerija ULUPDSa, Belgrade, Serbia

2015 Uninterrupted Stare - Daemons at Galerie d'Art - Art.Culture, Bordeaux, France

2022 I'll See You In The Trees, Estação – Associação Cultural, Canelas-Estarreja, Portugal

2025 Process is a (SUB) Product, Oasi Space for Visual Experimentations, Limassol, Cyprus

Curating and organising the exhibitions with the Arboreal Collective art team in collaboration with the Lab for Animation Research (LAR) Department of the Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology.:

2022 "The Forest Project" NeMe Arts Centre, participating with the work "I'll See You in The Trees"

Group Exhibitions, Residencies and Workshops:

2004    “UNCLAIMED LUGGAGE” Nomadifesta Lusignan Hall, Nicosia curated by Klitza Anthoniou ARTRAGEOUS GROUP

2007     Artists Group CINEMA No.1 ART STUDIO 55, Limassol by Pegasus Art Foundation

2008 

YK : EM Selfportrait at NIMAC (Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre)(OLD Power House) curated by Sofia Hadzipapa

2012

 VINAIGRETTE, The ARTHOUSE 59, CY

 "EROS.art" Art Studio 55 by Pegasus Art Foundation 

 "2nd Women Painters Exhibition" at  Pyrgos Congress, Nicosia, selected by Mary Pyrgos

 I SANTORINI BIENNALE OF ARTS 2012, Santorini, Greece, Art Curator Simon Tarrant, UK,

I.D. EURO SIGNS & ICONS, Pegasus Art Foundation, CY

2013

PREMIER LEAGUE, Art Point, Limassol, CY, Art curator  Raymond Wilson

IV International Exhibition of Miniatures, Majdan Art at The House of Emigrants and Serbs in the region, Belgrade

2014 

The IV Biennale of Contemporary Drawing of Serbia at Historical Archive Pancevo, Serbia

Five new and three very young artists curated by Andros Efstathiou, IsNotGallery, Nicosia, CY

Lush Art in Austere Times curated by Andros Efstathiou, IsNotGallery, Nicosia, CY

ULUPUDS  Gallery SULUJ, Belgrade

PREMIER LEAGUE curated by Raymond Wilson,  Lello's Point, Limassol, CY

XII International Women Painters Cultural Centre, Majdanpek, Serbia,

The Inauguration of the Cultural Centre of Strovolos, Nicosia, CY

II SANTORINI BIENNALE OF ARTS 2012 curated by K. Papadopoulos & G. Frangos, Santorini, Greece

42. World Gallery of Drawing, OSTEN BIENNIAL OF DRAWING, Skopje 2014, Macedonian Academy of Arts

V International Exhibition of Art in Miniature, MajdanArt 2014, Belgrade

"Limiere de paux",UN, Palais des Nations, Geneva,  Switzerland

The Modern Drawing, Galerija SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

50th anniversary of E.KA.TE, Dimotiki Pinakothiki Larnaca, Famagusta Gate – Nicosia, Old Power House, Pafos &

The Evagoras Centre, Limassol

Altstadthalle Gallery, Zug, Switzerland

2015

Lush Art in Austere Times, IsNotGallery, Nicosia

Technopolis 20, Pafos  exhibition Woman and Art

"Minor Asia" The Byzantine Museum and Art Gallery of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation, Nicosia

Polychrome with Rodica Lomnasan at Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art, Paphos

DRAWING ROOM Rouan Gallery, Limassol 

T.I.N.A. Lisbon, Los Angeles & São Paulo, Honourable Mention of the Jury  

2016

6th Lessandra, Sofia, Bulgaria

Small Format,  House of Djure Jaksica, Belgrade, KC Ivanjica, Jagodina, Zrenjanin, V.Plana, S.Pazova, Krusevac and Aleksinac

13th International Biennial of Miniature, Cultural Centre Gornji Milanovac, Serbia

2nd FRESH -The Modern Portrait, JanKossen Contemporary Gallery, New York

44. World Gallery of Drawing, OSTEN BIENNIAL OF Drawing, Skopje 2014, Macedonian Academy of Art

2nd LYNX International Art prize by The Associazione Culturale IL SESTANTE (A.C.I.S.)  Trieste (Italy

Lokarjeva galery, Ajdovščina, Slovenia

Horizons, Exhibition of fresh contemporary drawing in Serbia, Great Hall of SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

2017    

Sala degli Archi of the New Fortress, Livorno, Italy

CICA Museum, South Korea, 2017, CICA 미술관은 , Czong Institute for Contemporary Art

Social Art Award, Berlin, Germany

October Salon, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia

49th GOLDEN PEN OF BELGRADE, THE 14th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF ILLUSTRATION 2017, Gallery Progres, Beograd

Traditional-Modern, SKC Belgrade

The exhibition 'In Honour of Epic Cypriot poet Vassilis Michaelidis', curator Nadia Anexegorou, Limassol Municipal Gallery

Horizons, Progress, Belgrade

Salon D 'D'Automne, En Plo Gallery/The Old Powerhouse, Paphos

2018   

The book 'In Honour of Vassilis Michaelidis' by Nadia Anexegorou, Limassol Municipal Gallery

Lush Art In Austere Times,  Isnotgallery, Nicosia, curator A. Efstathiou

Salon d'automne, IFC French Institute - Collection Gallery, Nicosia, curated by Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos

The Victim as a Cultural Expression, 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference of the ICSAH Foundation,

      Curators Umberto  Mondini and Andros Efstathiou,   Cornaro Institute, Limassol

Rewriting the Constitution, A seven-day workshop and performance, coordinated by Boris Bakal, Ellada Eva,

       Maria Kyriakou and Maria Varnakkidou at  Yard Residency 18, Limassol, CY

18th Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh 2018, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

            Keeping a Secret at Palia Ilektriki, Larnaca, curated by Miriam McConnon

Civilian Sensitivities, A workshop by curators Sigal Barkai, Israel and Yiannis Toumazis, NIMAC, Nicosia, CY

1st Larnaca Biennial 2018, Container & Content, curators Vassilis Vassiliades, Tonia Loizou and Michail Elia, Larnaca, Cyprus

            A one-day workshop with Eleana Alexandrou during the Open House Festival 2018, Dance House, Limassol 

           

2019

 Lush Art In Austere Times,  Isnotgallery, Nicosia, curator A. Efstathiou 

 Dubinski crtez (Deep drawing), workshop with Goran Stojčetovic, Remont, Beograd

 Memories (20 years from NATO Attack on Serbia) SKC, Belgrade

 The exhibition and publication LIKOVNI ATLAS2, Contemporary Serbian Artists,

         Building of the National Bank of Serbia, Belgrade. Curated by  Slobodan Maldini

 Through Machine Eyes at NeMe, Limassol. Curated by James Bridle, Helene Black and Yiannis Colakides

 Research, Acting and Dramatisation - with Pavlos Kountouriotis

 Performance Workshop with Philippos Tsitsopoulos, TEPAK Fine Arts Lab, Dr Andonis Danos

 Taking part and performing @ “TIME b” Performance piece video by Suzana Phialas, Open Dance Festival, Cyprus,

              Limassol Municipal Arts Centre- Apothikes Papadaki

2020

 ATLAS of Particles-Are you … (predictable)?, Pavilion CVIJETA ZUZORIĆ, Curated by ULUS Expanded Media Section

2021

UVID 21 ( Insight 21), The Old Kluz Building, Belgrade, curator Neda Radoicic, May Exhibition ULUPUDS

Our DNA, curated show Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

“IT NEVER HAPPENED!” The Old Cinema Balkan, Belgrade, curated by  ULUS, Department of Expanded Media

         curators Milica Lapčević, Milos Peskir, Dusan Radovanovic, Neda Kovinic

"1821: Collective memories" Limassol Municipal Arts Centre- Apothikes Papadaki

DeSiderata curated by Samantha Benedetti and Enea Chersicola, and Androna Campo, Trieste, Italy

STATE OF EMERGENCY  -The 90th Autumn Exhibition of ULUS Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Belgrade

         Curation Art Council of ULUS with art historians Dr. Dejan Sretenović and Dr. Jelena Stojanović.

2022   

Stories of Intimacy curator Mariza Bargilly,  Limassol Municipal Arts Centre, Limassol

               The Forest Project, a group exhibition organised and curated by Nina Sumarac and Arboreal Collective at NeMe Arts Centre

                      Exhibition funded by the Ministry of Culture, Cyprus.

dig(id)entities reimagined, NFT exhibition, Gallery NO Concept, Belgrade

              IDMAA MEDIA ART: WEIRD MEDIA, Curator Patrick Lichty, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota, USA 

UNRELEASED MATERIALS, 6th International Triennial of expanded media, ULUS Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Belgrade 

"Ode to Earth" at Estação – Associação Cultural,Curated by A. Conte, C. Mateus and J. Queiroz Canelas-Estarreja, Portugal.

Forest and Life” Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, organised by YATOO, Gongju-si, South Korea

Ignite the Future by INSTINC D @ Physical and Metaverse Gallery curators: Aleksandra Jovanić, Icki and Teng Yen Hui, Singapore

VIDEOAKTION #3,attaque(e)r le visible, curator Lawinia Rate. Raum für drastische Maßnahmen ·Berlin

fu: bar 2k22 screening program GLITCH CINEMA, curator: Ejla KOVAČEVIĆ, Zagreb, Croatia

FIVA SPMAV Leopoldo Gotuzzo Art Museum - MALG, in Pelotas, Brazil

ReA! Art Fair 2022 Curator: Paola Shiamtani. Fabricca Del Vapore, Milan, Italy

TERRA at Espacio Gallery. Curator Judit Prieto. London

Rare Effect led by Arroz Estúdios & Art Progression, Now Lisbon, Portugal

Women in Religions: from spiritual leadership to female empowerment, Curator: Prof. Umberto Mondini. Cornaro     

        Art Institute, Limassol. Part of the 5th International Conference on Arts and Humanities  (ICSAH) and the Dante Alighieri Society

        of Nicosia, in cooperation with the Libera Università Internazionale Degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Luiss) and the Pontificia              Università Salesiana, Italy

POLYPHONIZE Workshop with Grace Schwindt. Curators: Ilina Chervonnaya and Katerina Neofytidou. Organised by E.KA.TE. Nicosia

Art Speaks Out, Ikono TV, screening at COP27, The Conference of the Parties (COP), organised by the United Nations Framework 

        Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

Biennial Technology - Technology is humanity, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, Curator Francesca Canfora.  

Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, BW 12 Diakonissenplatz Bunker, Forststraße 28, 70176 Stuttgart, Germany

Imagine Futures, Puntomov, Festival de Videoarte de la Facultad de Artes, Autonomous University of Mexico State UAEMEX

Art and Society, Ecology as a Collective Sculpture, The International Performance Art Festival for Ecology and Sustainable                             Development, Cameroon. Artistic Director Raphaël Christian Etongo.  Yaoundé, Cameroon

Glitch Art International Online Exhibition - Third Edition, Brazil. Curated by Cleber Gazana  

 

2023      

         36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media with the IDKF, Kunstbezirk Gallery Stuttgart, Germany

         The LAR Chronicles: Radical Domains of Anima, Lab for Animation Research CUT, NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol

         National Liberty Museum (NLM). CurationAaron Billheimer, Meegan Coll, Michael Derian and Kelley Stone. Philadelphia, US

         Training school ‘ToolKit of Care’ COST (Belgium)Action CA21102 with Cyprus University of Technology and NeMe,

                    Art and social care through social sciences, NeMe Arts Centre

         Plexus Project online exhibition GUI/GOOEY, curator Laura Splan, New York

         Art Laguna Prize Biennale by Associazione Culturale MoCA, Bacini dell'Arsenale Nord, Venezia, Italy

                    Presentation of the work funded by the Ministry of Culture of Cyprus.

         Ties That Cannot Be Unbound, Underground Art And Design (UAAD) and New Art City online gallery.

                   Curator Zhi Ye & Xiaofan (Amy) Jiang, New York

         TranshHumance, CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium (CTAO), curator Abramo ‘Tepes’ Montini, Lavagna, Italy

         The 5th International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICSAH) and the Dante Alighieri Society of Nicosia in cooperation

                 with the Libera Università Internazionale Degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Luiss) and the Pontificia Università Salesiana, IT

          "THE END OF CAPITALISM: Point of Goodbye" ULUS Spring Exhibition,  Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Belgrade

           I WANT TO BELIEVE curated by LoosenArt, Rome, Italy

           Nomadic Digital Portal, Future Labs in Poznań, Poland. Curator Zuza Szczepańska, Curatorship and Theories of Art at the

                 Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznań, Poland

         ART COEFFICIENT, Department of Expanded Media. Curator Milica Lapčević. Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Belgrade

         Developing Vocational Education Training Programme Compatible with Metaverse, Digi-Art by EDI Belgium, Les Créatives de

                  Demain France, CRU Creative Hub Portugal, EKA and EFTA Turkey. Co-funded by the European Union under the

                  Erasmus+ + Education and Formation Funds

          Blue Chip Artist. Curator Francesca Rossi, Artsted. Milan

          “Self as A Service [SAAS]” XOR Experimental Research and Artistic Practices  pavilion at The Wrong Biennale 

           Kinētechós – ‘The Body and its Possible Extensions’ online exhibition curated by Anna Utopia Giordano, Morphrame Gallery pavilion @

                      The Wrong Biennale and The Wrong TV

            Sirena, DUMPHAUS, TOKYO, pavilion online exhibition at The Wrong Biennale

           Quasi-publication exhibition and presentation at Hamilton House, Bristol, UK, curated by Simone Marconi 

2024  

              Physical exhibition of Kinētechós, The Wrong Biennale pavilion @ Fuori Visioni 8, Piacenza, Italy, curated by Anna Utopia Giordano, Morphrame Gallery 

              Diapo Gallery, Nice, France -Digi-art, Les Créatives de Demain France, EDI Belgium,  CRU Creative Hub Portugal, EKA and EFTA Turkey.

              Physical exhibition of Sirena @ digaholezines, Tokyo, curated by  DUMPHAUS, TOKYO, The Wrong Biennale pavilion Tokyo

              Brunches, Ecofeminism Festival, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London

              The Artist-in-Residence program (AIR) of the Schafhof – European Centre for Art, Upper Bavaria, Germany

              POMA Platform of Open Media Art, Košice, Slovakia

              RE: SOURCE 2.0, Artnow, The Warehouse by ITQuarter, Limassol

              Kre: Pí festival 2024 @ CK Záhrada, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

              EFE 8th International Visual Festival of Installations in Nicosia, Cyprus

              +αξη Vol 6, Υπόγεια Σκηνή/Πολυχώρος Συνεργείο, curators Aggela Stavrou and Julia Georgiadou, Limassol, Cyprus

2025

              Designing Desobedience, NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol 

              TRANSFORMATION | Exhibition of the residency program Schafhof – Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern, Freising, Germany

              DRAWSPACE I, Oasi Space for Visual Experimentations,  Limassol

              29th Annual Festival of Alternative Art. Event Horizon – A European Dialogue, NPAK Curators: Nathalie Hoyos, Rainald Schumacher, Yerevan, Armenia 

              Palimpsest, E.KA.TE, LIMASSOL MUNICIPAL ARTS CENTER (APOTHIKES PAPADAKI)

            BINNAR FESTIVAL, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Porto, Portugal

Folk Media in the Digital Age, iDMAa Conference 2025, Curators Negin Ehtesabian Lichty and Patrick Lichty, Winona State University, MN, USA

Process is a (SUB) Product, Oasi Space for Visual Experimentations, Limassol, Cyprus

Scholarships and Funding:

  • 2016: Received funding from the Cyprus Republic Ministry of Education and Cultural Services to cover costs of work transport, installation, and presentation for the 2nd LYNX International Art Prize organised by The Associazione Culturale IL SESTANTE (A.C.I.S.), Trieste, Italy.

  • 2016: Received funding from the Cyprus Republic Ministry of Education and Cultural Services for work transport, installation, and presentation at the 2nd FRESH – The Modern Portrait, Jan Kossen Contemporary Gallery, New York.

  • 2022: Received funding from the Cyprus Republic Ministry of Education and Cultural Services to organise the exhibition and provide technical support for the project Forest; also received exhibition support from the same Ministry.

  • 2023: Received funding from the Cyprus Republic Ministry of Education and Cultural Services to cover costs of work transport, installation, and presentation at the 16th Arte Laguna Prize Biennale, Bacini dell'Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy.

  • 2024: Recipient of a scholarship for a 2-month Artist-in-Residence program at Schafhof, The European Centre for Art, Upper Bavaria, Germany.

​Awards:​

     

  • 2013: Historical Archive Pančevo, Serbia — Portrait No.34 (Uninterrupted Stare)

  • 2014: Honourable Mention of the Jury at the IV International Miniature Art, Serbia for Portrait No.20 (Uninterrupted Stare)

  • 2014: 1st Prize in Digital Art at the XII International Women Painters, Serbia for Portrait No.02 (Uninterrupted Stare)

  • 2015: Honourable Mention of the Jury, T.I.N.A. Lisbon, Los Angeles & São Paulo
    Work Within Love or Sorrow, There Ain't Virgins became part of the permanent collection of The Byzantine Museum of Archbishop Makarios III Foundation, Nicosia

  • 2016: 1st Prize in Digital Art, selected by The Associazione Culturale IL SESTANTE for The LYNX Prize 2016, Trieste, Italy, for the work Nothing Compares to You – Multiverse

  • 2022: 1st Prize for I'll See You in The Trees at the open call "Ode to Earth," selected by Angella Conte, Cristina Mateus, and João Queiroz, Estação – Associação Cultural, Canelas-Estarreja, Portugal

  • 2022: Honourable Mention of the Jury, Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, Toronto, Canada

  • 2023: Certificate of Achievement, Puntomov Facultad De Artes, Mexico, for participation in All Futures Must Be in Our Present

Museums and National Galleries Collection:

  • 2002: Limassol Municipal Art Gallery — Painting 21 (Letters Home)

  • 2006: State Gallery of Contemporary Cyprus Art — Prrrrrr (No Place Like Home)

  • 2014: OSTEN World Gallery of Drawing, Skopje — Portrait No.23 (US), became part of the permanent collection

  • 2014: Limassol Municipal Art Gallery purchased Portrait No.30 (Uninterrupted Stare – Daemons)

  • 2020: State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art purchased Nothing Compares to You, Multiverse

  • 2021: Municipal Gallery Limassol purchased (Kokino Kiklo II), Residual Heroines: Manto, Multiverse

Organising Workshop:

2016 – 2019 Workshops We ’ Trees – making the tree drawings for the project, I’ll See You in The Trees

2022      Workshop We’Trees, Organising and leading with performing artist Elena Gavril, FOREST, NeMe Arts Centre

2024      We, Trees at  Schafhof – European Centre for Art Upper Bavaria, Germany

2024      We, Trees at  Kre: Pí festival 2024 @ CK Záhrada, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Teaching and Mentoring:

2005 -     Teaching at Art Classes since 2005

2025       Memeraki Art Residency, Limassol

2025       DigiHelicon project, REST Limassol, ERASMUS+, https://digi-helicon.eu/

 

 

Publications:

2004 “Letters Home” by Nina Sumarac

2006 “Antikvarnica Duse” Cover for the Poetry book by Natalija Jakovljevic

2012 “Γυναικα” art catalogue, PYRGOS Congress, Nicosia

2012  I.D. EURO multi.cult, art catalogue, Pegasus Art Foundation

2014  # 3  issue Straw Dogs magazine  issue February 2014 Text by Yiota Panayiotou, pages 52-56

2014  Atlas Of Applied Arts, Artists and Designers Of Serbia  - The 21st Century,  Maldini, publisher Japan Society

2015  # 5  issue of Straw Dogs magazine, 4 illustrations for the poems of Yiorgos Seratons

2016 FRESH! 2016 THE MODERN PORTRAIT catalogue, Jankossen Contemporary New York

2016 Artist catalogue by The Associazione Culturale IL SESTANTE  for The LYNX Prize 2016, Trieste, Italy

2017 ArtAscent Magazine, February 2017, Portrait issue, Pages 76 & 77

2017 Social Art Award catalogue, Berlin, Germany

2017 7th Premio Combat Prize catalogue, Livorno, Italy

2018 "In the winds of the hidden, Vassilis Michaelides: Visual and poetic extensions" by Dr Natia Anaxagorou, Head of Cultural Services of the Municipality of Limassol and curator of the exhibition in honour of one hundredth anniversary of the poet Vasilis Mihailidis, held at the Limassol Municipal Gallery (10/11/2017. – 31/05/2018), and Lefteris Papaleontiou, a university and researcher of Cypriot literature

2021 Exhibition catalogue UVID21 (Insight 21), May Exhibition ULUPUDS

2021 Exhibition catalogue 'Stories of Intimacy' Municipal Gallery Limassol

2021 Exhibition Catalogue STATE OF EMERGENCY  -The 90th Autumn Exhibition of ULUS

2022 Work presentation and the Interview for the Special edition of LandEscape Art magazine, UK

2022 Glitch.Art.Br 2022 116p. book by Cleber Gazana, Brazil

2023 Proceedings of Conference of 5th International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Luiss University or La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

2023 TranshHumance, catalogue by CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium (CTAO), Lavagna, Italy

2023 99 Book Future Blue-Chip Artists published by Artsted, London UK

2023 The 2022 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale art catalogue book

2023 I Want to Believe exhibition catalogue published by LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy

2023 Book Estação project publisher TRAMA BODOQUE Artes e Ofícios represented by Frederico Lopes Oliveira, Portugal

2023 "Electric Makumba" 1st issue Quasi publication curated by Simone Marconi

Attended Workshops:

  • 2018 – The Idea of the Avant-Garde, led by Marc James Léger and Cayley Sorochan

  • 2019 – Through the Machine Eyes, led by artist and curator James Bridle (UK), NeMe Arts Centre

  • 2021 – LiDAR Scanning and Photogrammetry, workshop by Jeremy Lee, CYENS Thinker Maker Space, Nicosia & NeMe

  • 2021 – Roundtable discussion led by Régine Debatty (BE), part of the exhibition Working Towards Our Obsolescence, NeMe

  • 2022 – Digital Postcard from Cyprus, by artist Negin Ehtesabian (IR), NeMe Arts Centre

  • 2022 – By Heart, workshop led by artist Anna Barham (UK), NeMe Arts Centre

  • 2022 – POLYPHONIZE, with Grace Schwindt, Ilina Chervonnaya, Katerina Neofytidou and E.KA.TE., Nicosia

  • 2022 – Playfully Protesting Climate Chaos, led by artist/activist Noel Douglas (UK), at the Flood Tide of Resistance

  • 2022 – Lecture/workshop by curator Mirena Papadimitriou, exhibition The Money, Ruins and the Sea, NeMe Arts Centre

  • 2025 – Ecologies of Sound: Soundscape Composition as an Artistic Practice, by sound engineer Dimitris Savva, MADLab (Media Arts and Design Research Lab

 

 

Press:

2004 March 19-25 The Cyprus Weekly “Letters Home” text by Glyn Hughes, page 19;// 2004 March 21 Sunday’s POLITIS, CY “Letters Home” text by Dr Nadia Anaxegorou (linguist MA from Cambridge and a PhD Oxford University. cultural director of the Limassol Municipality), page41;// 2004 July SINTESEIS Magazine, CY, page 158;//2006 by Glyn Hughes The Cyprus Weekly, November 24;//.2006 10. November CITY magazine text by Xenia Tsiamanta;// 2006 LIDER Business Magazine Moscow No26 “Sva njena traganja” pages 32-35, text by S.Moskovljevic;// 2006 November TIME OUT Cyprus Magazine text by arte editor Xenia Tsiamanta ;// 2010 March April STIL GIZNI The Russian Magazine in Cyprus, “NINA” pages 75,76;// 2008 March 16, SEVEN Magazine CY text by Anna Hassapi ,pages60&61;// 2008 March Lemesorame, CY ,No27 , “Painting Exhibition By Nina Sumarac”, page 41;// 2008 May Lemesorame, CY ,No29, “Nina Sumarac – one choice to proceed realty “ interview by art editor Simoni, pages54,55;// 2008 March TimeOut Cyprus, No74 text by Xenia Tsiamanta;// 2008 March/April “STIL” Cyprus Russian Magazine text by Tatiana Kasas;// 2012 Oktober NINA ŠUMARAC: NEOMETANO BULJENJE, IZLOŽBA CRTEŽA UGLJENOM at http://www.skc.org.rs/izlozbe/2316-nina;// 2013 February «Uninterrupted Stare» από τη Νίνα Σούμαρακ ,Kathimerini 20.02.2013 14:12 http://www.kathimerini.com.cy/;// 2013 February «Uninterrupted Stare» από τη Νίνα Σουμαρακ 19/02/2013 at http://www.parathyro.com/uninterrupted-stare/;// 2013 March A minute with Nina Sumarac Jablonsky ArtistCyprus Mail Friday, March 22nd 2013;// 2013Jun, STRAW DOGS Magazine, CY 3rd issue, Text by Yiota Panayiotou, pages 52-56  // 1.4.2013.Exhibition UNINTERRUPTED STARE by Nina Sumarac. Rouan Art Gallery at MARIA ECHO INSPIRED LIFE blog// Straw Dogs magazine issue # 4  February 2014//January 2015 HELLO Magazine Serbia//Straw Dogs magazine issue # 5  February 2015 //2015  art Magazin LIKOVNI ZIVOT, Belgrade no 148, page 63// Jun. 10th 2016 Parathyro, Politis Έργα της Σερβοκύπριας ζωγράφου Nina Sumarac στην γκαλερί JanKossen στη Νέα Υόρκη // August  12th 2016 CY Weekly interview with Melissa Hekkers, page 36&37// 

 

 

Work in film and animation:

from 2001-2013 working as an artist production assistant on numerous 2D animation adverts in production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos/// 2005 working as Production assistant , artist Production assistant / artist in short animation film "ANIMAL BEHEVIOUR" , production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos, Awards:• Animation Honour - Cyprus International Film Festival (March 2006)• Best Animation Film Award - The 29th Short Film Festival, Drama, Greece (September 2006)• Best Animation & Experimental film Award - Cyprus short & documentary film Festival (February 2007),• The Greek Government Quality Awards – nominee - 47th Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece (November 2006),Awarded : Animation Honour - Cyprus International Film Festival (March 2006); Best Animation Film Award - The 29th Short Film Festival, Drama, Greece (September 2006); Best Animation & Experimental film Award - Cyprus short & documentary film Festival (February 2007); The Greek Government Quality Awards – nominee - 47th Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece (November 2006);/// 2005 digital scanning and structuring of pictures in Documentary, stop-frame motion films for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sculpture Symposium Limassol CY, production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos/// 2006 working as artist on coloring in short experimental film "TAXI" - IDEODROME 2006 , production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos/// 2007 acting, sound ,editing and technical support on short experimental film "TRIP TO THE MOON 2" - IDEODROME 2007, production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos/// 2009 working in photoshop; for documentary, experimental, short, stop-frame motion, animation film "10 YEARS OF RIALTO, 2009", production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos/// 2009 frame preparation & research on short experimental film "DRESS QUEST III", Ideodromio 2009, production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos/// 2016 working as production assistant research preparation for animation film La soup, production "TOONACHUNKS" Nicos Synnos, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

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