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Eva Petric was born in 1983, at Kranj, Slovenia, and currently lives and works in New York, Vienna in Austria, and Ljubljana in Slovenia. The forms of her works are photography, video, sound, installation, performance and writing. She graduated from United Nations International School, receiving an academic distinction and special art award in 2002. She received a BA in psychology and visual art from Webster University in Vienna in 2005, and an MFA in new media at Transart Institute in New York/ Berlin, Danube University Krems, Austria. Petric, in her thirties, has already held over 60 solo and over 70 group exhibitions in 20 countries; Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, North Macedonia, Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Serbia, Turkey and the US. Her work “Collective Heart” was installed at the sanctuaries of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna in 2016 and The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York in 2019. She was commissioned by the Mayor of Ljubljana in Slovenia for “Urska” – glass object as a gift presented by the Mayor to newlyweds, by Steklarna Hrastnik for Echo, a glass object
containing ambient fragrance representing the virtues of this company, as well as for her site specific installation White wHole in the remarkable setting of the underground caves to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the discovery of the Postonjna Caves inaugurated by the President of Slovenia. She was also commissioned two times for art installations shown in the windows for Bergdorf Goodman in New York in 2013 and 2015. Her solo show One World, A World for All was held at the Delegates Entrance of the United Nations, NY in 2018. Her works are in the collections of institutions in Slovenia, Austria, Argentina, Greece and the US including the International Centre for Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten, Klagenfurt, Austria; Albertina Museum Vienna; MAK Museum for Applied Art, Vienna, Austria; Bozidar Jakac Regional Museum, Kostanjevica, Slovenia; Butler institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, USA; The Goulandris Art Collection, Greece. She participated in one of the oldest art salons in Europe, the Societe Nationale des BeauxArts located in Paris in 2016, where her work Ophelia no 2 won the Silver Medal in photography. At the 6th international fine arts festival Kranj, her lace installation TRANShomoPLANTATION received the 2017 Grand Prix of the festival.