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Radovan Kragulj (1936)

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Biography


Radovan Kraguly was born in 1936 and brought up on a small farm near Prijedor in the former Yugoslavia, now Bosnia–Herzegovina. Kraguly studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Belgrade 1953-60 and received a grant from the British Council to attend the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London 1962-63 before going on to lecture at art schools in England, Belgium and France. In the early 1970s he first visited Wales and soon after bought a farmhouse deep in the countryside near Builth Wells. Since then, his life and work have alternated between mid-Wales and Paris.

Individual exhibitions:

1965 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1977 Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1988 Bemis Center of Contemporary Art , Omaha
1989 Musèe d’Art Moderne (MAM), Paris
1990 Umjetnička galerija (UGBH), Sarajevo
1991 Museum of Modern Art (PMMK), Ostende
1995 Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), Belgrade. 

Group exhibitions:

Over the years, he has taken part in more than 200 group exhibitions, and in biennials in sixteen countries. 

Other:

Works in museums/public collections:

British Museum, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester
National Museum and Art Gallery, Cardiff
Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris
Library of Congress, Washington.