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ABOUT
Mirela Kulović's drawings and paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, and are held in several international collections. Her work has been featured in art publications, and her collaborative projects have earned global recognition.
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BIOGRAPHY
Mirela Kulović is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across multiple geographies and disciplines. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, raised in Croatia, and now based in the United States, her work spans drawing, painting, film, sculpture, and, more recently, text-based and participatory art. Grounded in long-term processes, material experimentation, and relational engagement, her practice foregrounds making as an ongoing, embodied form of inquiry.
Mirela Kulović holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Split, a background that continues to inform her approach to structure, process, and systems. Her artistic education has developed through fieldwork, sustained studio experimentation, and coursework at SMFA at Tufts University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine (U.S.), Antenae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (U.K.), and Boston Art Review, and has received institutional recognition from organizations including the Somerville Arts Council and the Cambridge Art Association. She was a finalist for the Walter Feldman Fellowship for emerging visual artists in New England, hosted by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston.
Alongside her studio practice, she actively supports arts institutions, community programming, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. She founded ACG, an artist-run space and summer residency in Bosnia and Herzegovina, creating platforms for exchange and experimentation outside traditional institutional frameworks. She has donated artwork to support fundraising initiatives, including for the Brookline Arts Center, and has developed exhibitions and projects that directly contributed to public programming and community engagement.
Kulović regularly participates in international discussions on art, culture, and migration, and has lectured in high schools, universities, and other public settings. Her engagement with global narratives of displacement extends to film, where she served as artistic director for Memories, produced by Paradoxx Films in New York. Her recent collaborative project, Space to Be Different, explores diverse participatory art practices. She is also the author of Playground, a book and collaboration manual published by Transnational Press London.