About the artist
Natasa Stojkovic
To take a journey in Art is to follow a path that will last you a lifetime. By using clay as my main medium I find myself borrowing the life force of the Earth and using it to make my work immortal. Clay is the soil beneath our feet that hold things together and brings things to life. In that very way I use clay to bring my artwork to life. My sculptural concepts are based on a very personal narrative, always revealing a story behind the object. Earth tones are crucial to uniting aspects of my work, utilizing additional media such as wood, leather, and coiled metals to express and enhance the forms. My ideas stem from the innate qualities of the materials that I use to express my sculptures. The tentative work, the details, the fate of how the work will emerge after the firing process, creates the journey I go on with every new concept.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1991 - BFA University of Applied Art & Design (5 years program) , Belgrade, Serbia
JURIED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Art Salon Fall 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2024 - Super Naughty Show, The Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2023 - Solo-Exhibition Artistic Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2023 - Super Monster Show, The Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2023 - The Amazing SCI-FI Show, The Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2023 - The Big Top, The Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2022- Solo-Exhibition “Artistic Way, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2022- Super Naughty Show, The Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2019 - Art Salon Fall 2019, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2018 - Art Salon Fall 2018, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2017 - Art Salon Canada 150, 2017, Novi Sad, Cacak, Belgrade, Serbia, Europe
2016 - Art Salon Fall 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 - Art Salon Fall 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 - Art Salon Spring 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014 - Super Naughty Show, The Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014 - Art Salon Fall 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Kanada
2013 - Praxis Gallery “FINALE” Show, Toronto, Ontario, Kanada
2013 - Art Salon Fall 2013, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2013 - Art Salon 2013, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2013 - Praxis Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2012 - Reflections, Omni Surfaces, Toronto, Ontario, Kanada
2011 - Furniture Exhibition, Exhibition Place, Beograd, Srbija
2010 - Solo Exhibition – Artistic Way 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 - Solo Exhibition – Praxis Gallery 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007 - Towards The Third Millenium, Praxis Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007 - Octopus Exhibition – Distillery 2007, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2003 - Solo Exhibition – Praxis Gallery 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2003 - Liss Gallery 2003, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1996-2010 - Tea Cup, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1997 - Towards the Third Millennium – Praxis Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1995 - Recent Arrivals: Calling Toronto Home – Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1995 - Serbian Artists in Canada – Serbian Heritage Museum of Windsor 1995, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1995-2000 - Art Salon '95 – Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1993 - Solo Exhibition – Singidunum Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
1993 - 20 Years of The World of Ceramics, Belgrade, Serbia
1992 - Colony – Resen Ceramics, Resen, Macedonia
1990 - Roscoe – Three River Pottery Studio /W Becky Lowe, Ohio, USA
1990 - Macy Dorf Studio – Three Month Study, Denver, USA
1990 - III World Triennial of Small Ceramics, Zagreb, Croatia
1989 - The Power of Nature, Belgrade, Serbia
1989-2010 - Triennials of Yugoslav Ceramics, Belgrade, Serbia
1989-2009 - May Exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
1989-2010 - Biennale of Ceramics, Belgrade, Serbia
1989 - Colony – The World of Ceramics, Arandjelovac, Serbia
1988-2010 - October Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
AWARDS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
2009 - Praxis Gallery, Honorable Mention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1997 - Del Bello Gallery, Honorable Mention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1994 - The ULUPUDS (Associations of Applied Arts Artists & Designers Of Serbia) Annual Award For the best artistics achievement of the year, Belgrade, Serbia
COMMISSIONS & PROFESSIONAL VISITS
2000-2010 - Commissioned work, Golf and Tennis Tournament, Niagara Falls, Canada
2006 - Commissioned work, Patio Bar with Wooden Pizza Owen, Hotel Holiday Inn, Niagara Falls, Canada
2004 - Commissioned work, Two Fire Places, Private Collection, Toronto, Canada
1996 - Commissioned work, Bar Table for Coffee Klatch, Toronto, Canada
1993 - Commissioned work, Fountain made in the Administrative Building of The Resava Bank, Despotovac, Serbia
1990 - Studio "Tree Rivers Pottery", Cochocton, Ohio, USA
1990 - Studio Macy Dorf, Denver, Colorado, USA