Bojana
Rank



Working on various personal and commission projects
using both traditional fine art and contemporary
design techniques.

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Graphic Design
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Painting
Pritmaking
Bookmaking



Born in Belgrade, Serbia, she moved to the United States in 2014, and in 2018 earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute, where she also received The Bronze Roller Award, the highest achievement in the printmaking department of study. Currently in Brooklyn, Bojana had her work projected on the ZAZ10 Gallery billboard in Times Square, NY, has exhibited work in American Bookbinders Museum, Root Division, 1890 Bryant Street Studios, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI Print Gallery, Art Gallery at the Orinda Library, and various alternative spaces; as well as The Russian House, Glasnik Gallery, and Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, Serbia. Her work can be found in the collection of the Anne Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco Art Institute and various personal collections.

“Utilizing the process of printmaking, I create direct and sincere work. Issues concerning the construction of home, feelings of belonging and being grounded while at the same time displaced, are the dominant themes. Love pain, élan, melancholy, yearning, sentiment, and bittersweet longing with all its bliss and sadness are the essence and motivation behind the practice; fantasies of utopias constructed from ideas and practices of existing, past and present heterotopias. Working and creating allows me to unobtrusively rebuild and ground my ideals through my pieces, to have a safe playground and dwell on the memory while transforming it. Conceptual methodology I use is consistent, even though certain pieces are carried out through traditional printmaking methods, while some take on more modern techniques of photography and video work. This process creates a space that captures layers of identity and its intersectionality, as is reflected from self. The images are being transformed so that they can be present as a new cohesive whole. Additionally, distributive and accessible aspects of printmaking allows me to share the original experience with many people as a political act of love.”


EDUCATION

2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts
San Francisco Art Institute
PRINTMAKING / art + technology

EXHIBITIONS

2023
DAYBREAK, Group Show, Portland, Maine
2022
INVISIBLE MONUMENT/SECRET MEMORIAL, Pop up - Group Show, San Francisco, California
2020
TUNNELS OF THE MIND, Screening on ZAZ 10 Gallery Billboard, Times Square, New York
OPEN BOOK SHOW 7, Open Windows Cooperative, SF, CA / online archive
2019
SPRING 2019 BFA Show , San Francisco Art Institute , San Francisco, CA
The Love Train, SOMA Street Park , CA
Book smart, American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, CA
OPEN BOOK SHOW 6, Arion Press , CA
3, All Gold, Berkeley, CA
2018
Fall 2018 BFA Show, SFMOMA Artist Gallery + Gallery 308, San Francisco, CA
Open Book Show 5, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2018/2019 Clyde & Community Art Awards, Clyde & Co’s San Francisco office
Open Book Show 3, + Printmaking Department Fundraiser, 1890 Bryant Street Studios, San Francisco, CA
Really Big Print Show!, The Print Gallery, San Francisco, CA
You Were Here, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
The 2nd Open Book Show,Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inadequacy, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
Lamorinda Arts Council 12th Annual High School Visual Arts Exhibition, Art Gallery at the Orinda Library, Orinda, CA
2014
Sochi Winter Olympics Poster Exhibition, The Russian House, Belgrade, Serbia; Sochi, Russia
"Serbia and the world 1914 - 2014" / "Srbija i svet 1914 - 2014"- Hundred Years of First World War, Glasnik Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2004
“Brisanje 2004” (Erasure 2004), Exhibition/ International Interdisciplinary Project, Museum of History of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Serbia

AWARDS & HONORS

2019
Bronze Roller Award, San Francisco, California2019 Recognition of Academic Achievement Award, San Francisco Art Institute, SF,CA
2018
2018/2019 Clyde & Community Art Awards
35th Artists’ Book Contest, The Anne Bemer Memorial Library, San Francisco, CA
2015-2018 Continuing Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2015
Awards for Photography, 2D art and Digital Design, Lamorinda Arts Council, Orinda, CA

WORK EXPERIENCE

Present / 2022
Russell Creative
Present / 2020
Art School LLC
Present / 2013
Freelance Graphic Design and Illustration
2022 / 2021
Nepenthes America Inc
2020 / 2016
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2019
ArtSeed, San Francisco, California
2019
Johansson Projects, Oakland, California
2018
Mission Grafica, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, California 2016
Shapeshifters Cinema,Oakland, California

TEACHING

2018
Instructor, (Screen-printing) San Francisco Art Institute Young Artist Program, San Francisco

ART FAIRS

Fijuk Fair, Roadworks Steamroller Printmaking Festival, Cheap Thrills, San Francisco Zine Fest, Concentrate.