Olja Triaška Stefanović is the recipient of a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholarship, where she conducted research at Parsons School of Design in New York related to the Cold War and Non-Alignment movement. She is a visual artist and a photographer born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia. During the Balkan Wars in the 1990s, she settled in Slovakia. Many of her previous exhibition projects and art focused on the historical, political and cultural context of former Yugoslavia and consequences of the civil war in the 1990s. Her work shows a special interest in the space, history and architecture of Eastern Europe and she regularly exhibits both in Slovakia and internationally. Her latest photobook “Brotherhood and Unity” (2020) was presented in Slovakia, Vienna, Ljubljana, San Francisco.
She is recipient of many art awards and scholarships, including the 2019 Foundation Novum Contemporary Artist, Bratislava amongst others. Her works are part of permanent collections at Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava and City Gallery at Nitra, Slovakia. She lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia.