Dr. Dragana Jurisic

Dragana Jurišić's is an award-winning artist with an international reputation. Her work has been exhibited globally including Photo Museum Ireland; Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris; Rawson Projects Gallery, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, UNSW, Sydney;Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen and many others. Jurišić’s photobook and series, YU: The Lost Country (2015), is world renowned and won many awards including the Dorothe Lange and Paul Taylor Award by Duke University. She is in many collections including National Gallery Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin City Council, Arts Council Ireland, etc. Her latest bookHer Own (2022)received excellent reviewsincluding a feature review in El Pais (2023). Her other books include Museum(2019), a collaboration with one of Ireland's most esteemed poets, Paula Meehan and The Merits of Tracer Fire (2020), a collaboration with British poet Sarah Cave. Jurišić is an Assistant Professor in DCU since August2019. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales and an International Mentor at the MA in Photography – PhotographyStudies College, Melbourne, Australia. Dragana Jurišić is on the board of directors of Photo Museum Ireland and a member of the Collection Acquisitions Committee for Arts Council Ireland. She is currently making a feature film calledThe Last Balkan Cowboy.