Dora Budor is a Croatian artist who lives and works in

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. She has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Early life and education

Budor was born in

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and lived there whilst she completed a BA in Architecture Studies (2003–2005) and an MFA from the

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(2003–2008). Budor moved to New York in 2009 where she studied Visual Art (New Genres) at the MFA Program of

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, New York, in 2012.

Work

Budor's work has been shown internationally. Her first institutional solo exhibition in the United States was in 2015 at the

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in New York, entitled ''Spring''. The same year her works have been exhibited as part of ''Inhuman'' at

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in Kassel. In 2016 Budor exhibited immersive environment ''Adaptation of an Instrument'' for ''Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016'', curated by Chrissie Iles, at

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. In 2017 Frieze Projects New York commissioned a new performance ''Manicomio!'' and her public sculpture ''The Forecast (New York Situation)'' was on view for a year as part of an outdoor exhibition ''Mutations'' on the

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in New York. In 2018 she contributed site-specific installation ''The Preserving Machine'' for the 13th Baltic Triennial: ''Give up the Ghost'', curated by Vincent Honore, at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC),

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, Lithuania. She has participated in numerous institutional exhibitions; at

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(Denmark),

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(Paris), David Roberts Art Foundation (London), La Panacee (Montpellier), Aïshti Foundation (Beirut),

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(Belgrade), K11 Art Museum (Shanghai), Museum Fridericianum (Kassel), Halle für Kunst & Medien (Graz), as well as 9th

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(Berlin),

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Selected exhibition history

*''I am Gong'', Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, 2019 *''Benedick, or Else'', 80WSE Gallery, NYU, New York, 2018 *''Baltic Triennial 13, Give up the Ghost'', Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania, 2018 *''Casa Tomada'', Mexico City, Mexico, 2018 *''Crash Test'', La Panacée, Montpellier, 2018 *''The Trick Brain'', Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon, 2017 *''Being There'',

, Denmark, 2017 *''Art Encounters 2017: Life a User's Manual'', Timișoara, Romania, 2017 *''Biennial of Contemporary Image / Mois de la Photo'', Montreal, Canada, 2017 *''(X) A Fantasy'', David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK, 2017 *''Fade In 2: EXT. Modernist Home – Night'', Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017 *''Le Rêve des formes'',

, Paris, France, 2017 *''Artificial Tears'', Vienna Biennale 2017, MAK museum, Vienna, Austria, 2017 *''Mutations'', High Line Art, New York, US, 2017 *''After Us'', K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2017 *''Ephemerol'', Ramiken Crucible, New York, US, 2016 *''Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art'', 1905–2016,

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, New York, US, 2016 *''Streams of Warm Impermanence'', David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK, 2016 *''9th Berlin Biennale'',

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, Berlin, Germany, 2016 *''Spring'', Swiss Institute, New York, US, 2015 *''Inhuman'', Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2015 *''DIDING – An Interior That Remains an Exterior?'', Künstlerhaus / Halle für Kunst & Medien (KM–), Graz, Austria, 2015

References

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