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Džoja Ratković Gavela (1941)

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Dzoja (Joya) Ratkovic was born in 1940, in Mostar. She graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Law, in 1964; got the 1st degree at the Academy of the Apllied Arts in Belgrade (in Professor Milenko Serban's Class), in 1966. The same year she spent a longer time in Paris as a visiting scholar attending the elective courses at the Academy of the Fine Arts (Academie des beaux-arts).
She is engaged in creating caricatures, drawings, illustrations, ccmic strips, the motion-picture and television cartoons, stage illustrations, etc. She is a regular contributor of the Belgrade Radio & Television, and works for the Entertaining-Musical Section of its First Scheme and the Scientific-educational programme — the Knowledge is Wealth serial of its Second Scheme. She also contributes to a larger number of Yugoslav newspapers, weeklies and monthlies such as NIN, Politika, Ekspres Politika, HIS, Gong, Vecernje novosti, Jez, Student, Pavliha, Mladinski Tednik, Odjek, Ovdje, Knjizevne novine, Stradija etc.) as well as to some publishing houses (Mlado pokolenje, etc.)

School:

She graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Law, in 1964; got the 1st degree at the Academy of the Apllied Arts in Belgrade 

School location:

Belgrade 

Year of graduation:

1966 

Class:

Milenko Serban's Class 

Individual exhibitions:

One—Man Exhibitions:
1966— The Atelier-212 Gallery, Belgrade.
1967— Youth Center Gallery, Belgrade.
1968— Adult Education Center Gallery, Mostar; the Youth Center
Gallery, Pancevo; the Exhibition of Illustrations for the BITEF Catalogues, the Atelier-212 Gallery, Belgrade.
1969— Exhibition of Drawings, the Students Cultural Center, Belgrade.
1970— ,,At the Crossroads", Salon of the Museum of the Applied Arts,
Be'grade.
Group Exhibitions:
1971— Yugoslav Painting, the Ranelagh Gallery, Paris.
1972— Biennial of the Comic Drawings, Tolentin; the 20th Century
Watercolor, Sarajevo.
1968 — „The Analytic Humor", the Upitnik Gallery, Belgrade; Salon of
International Caricature, Montreal; the International Festival of Humor, Bordighera.
1969 — Salon of Inte national Caricature, Montreal; the International
Festival of Humor, Bordighera; the Golden Pen, Museum of the Applied Arts, Belgrade; the Pierre-69, the Graphic Collective Gallery, Be'grade.
1970 — Salon of International Caricature, Montreal; the 1 plus 13
Exhibition at the Museum of the Applied Arts, Belgrade; the Msy Salon at the Cultural Center Galle y, Belgrade; International Festival of Humor, Bord'ghera; the Festival of Humor and Satire Budva; the Kerempuh-70 Exhibition, Zagreb; the October Salon, at the ULUS Gallery, Belgrade; the Golden Pen at the Museum of the Applied Arts, Belgrade, Novi Sad.
1971 — May Salon, Museum of the Applied Arts, Belgrade; the
International Festival of Humor, Bordighera; the 1971 Skopje Caricature, Skopje; the Caricature-71 Exhibition at the Museum of the Applied Arts, Belgrade; the Golden Pen at the Museum of the Applied Arts, Belgrade.
1972 — My Salon, Museum of the Applied Arts, Belgrade; the
International Festival of Humor, Bordighera, 

Awards/recognitions:

the Pavliha Prize at the Festival of Humor and Satire in Budva, in 1970; the Golden Pen Prize awarded by Vecernje novosti at the Exhibition of the Museum of the Applied Arts in Belgrade, in 1971; also a reward by the Museum of the Applied Arts at the 1971 Golden Pen Exhibition.