Biography
Since receiving a distinction for her MFA (University of Wales, Newport) in 2008, Dragana Jurisic was selected as an Axis MAstar in 2009 (the most promising MA students in the UK).
In 2010, she received the Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award.
In 2011, the artist won the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Emerging Photographic Artist Award, Arts Council Ireland Travel and Training Award and Culture Ireland funding, as well as the Graduate Student Prize from The International Rebecca West Society.
In 2012, Dragana received funding from Belfast Exposed and the Arts Council Ireland award.
In 2013, Jurisic won a major Bursary Award and completed her PhD research at the European Centre for Photographic Research. She has exhibited widely internationally and her work is part of the Irish State Art Collection, University of Michigan collection and many private collections.