Olja Triaška Stefanović is the recipient of a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholarship, where she conducted research at Parsons School of Design in New York. She is a visual artist and a photographer born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia.
During the Balkan Wars in the 1990’s, she settled in Slovakia, Bratislava, where she now lives and works. She is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava, where she is currently the Head of the Department of Photography and New Media.Many of her previous exhibition projects focused on the historical, political and cultural context of former Yugoslavia and consequences of the civil war in the 1990s. Beside this topic, in her visual researches she shows a special interest in the space, history and architecture of Eastern Europe. She regularly exhibits both in Slovakia and internationally.
Her latest authors book “Brotherhood and Unity” was presented in Slovakia, New York, San Francisco, Vienna, Ljubljana. Her work are part of permanent collections at Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava and City Gallery at Nitra, Slovakia.