Endi Poskovic

Endi Poskovic (Ann Arbor, MI) was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and educated in Yugoslavia, Norway and the United States. His works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous international biennials and triennials and have brought him many notable awards and honors, including grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the United States Fulbright Commission, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation, the Bellagio Center, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Norwegian Government, the Camargo Foundation, the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Macdowell, and the Art Matters Foundation, among others. Museum collections that hold works by the artist include the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Fondation Fernet Branca, France; Alive Jincheon Printmaking Museum, South Korea; the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art and many others. Endi Poskovic is Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.

The amalgam of diverse scenarios and visual narratives in Poskovic's work implies accounts from personal and social histories and reference themes of cultural and environmental shifts, migration, and alienation that are at once magnificent and adverse. His early graphic work merges visual representation with text, often shifting the reading of the imagery through continuous representation and re-contextualization. These woodcut prints invoke influences as disparate as early cinema, classic Japanese woodblock prints, devotional pictures, and Eastern European Propaganda posters.