SURREALISM NOW! presents

DINA LENKOVIC

Dina with Model photo by Mario Lenkovic

SURREALISM NOW! is honored to present a MASTER OIL PAINTER from Croatia, DINA LENKOVIC! A Master and Legendary Artist of the Surreal, Fantastic, Visionary and Mystic, Dina Lenkovic's Art is beyond description, it is the very essence of the marvelous itself!!!

Artist Biography

Dina Lenkovic was born in 1951 in Zagreb, Croatia. She took a degree in Ethnology and Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb in 1975. From 1976 she had private lessons with Marin Tartaglia, professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb. She had a short sabbatical in London in 1980. She honed her skills in Stockholm at the Ballet Academy, doing drawings in the classical ballet class.
From the 1980s she kept up contacts with artists of the Vienna School of fantastic realism, becoming personally acquainted with Rudolf Hausner, Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Franz Luby and Robert Ederer.

To date she has had a number of solo shows in Croatia, Austria and Germany. She has done posters for the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, for the ballet and opera; she has also exhibited in the Theatre building. Her vision of the ballet Swan Lake, images of which were used for one of the posters of a performance by the CNT in 1999, won second place in an international competition of the Soho Fine Arts Institute in New York.

She is a member of the UK association The Society for Art of Imagination. In 2000 she won a special recommendation from Ernst Fuchs and Philip Rubinov-Jacobson at the exhibition 100 Sacred Visions in Austria's Payerbach. Also in 2000, she exhibited in London, the Mall Galleries, at a collective exhibition of surreal and fantastic art, The Art of Imagination 2000, as member of the society of English fantasy artists, which covers visions from Fuchs to the mystic worlds of H. R. Giger.

In 2002 she was named artist of the month for October-November by the Society for Art of Imagination for the picture The City Burning. Her works have also been published in several books of New Art International issued by the Book Art Press of New York and in the book Contemporary Art published by the Soho Fine Arts Institute.