BIO

Zlatko Ćosić is a video artist born in Yugoslavia whose work includes short films, video installations, theater and architectural projections, and audio-visual performances. Ćosić’s experience as a refugee influenced and shaped the content of his early artistic practice. His work began with the challenges of immigration and shifting identities, evolving to socio-political issues related to injustice, consumerism, and climate crisis. Ćosić's artwork has been shown in over fifty countries in exhibitions such as the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Video Vortex XI at Kochi-Muzeris Biennale, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, St. Louis International Film Festival, Torrance Art Museum, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, /si:n/ Video Art and Performance Biennale, Institut Für Alles Mögliche, The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Kunstverein Kärnten, Art Speaks Out at UN Climate Change Conference, and the Research Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. He has received grants including the WaveMaker Grants at Locust Projects, a Kranzberg Grant from Laumeier Sculpture Park, and the Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship.


Personal Statement
My experience as a refugee influenced and shaped the content of my early artistic practice. Living through the Yugoslavian war has led me to create work that addresses themes of culture, immigration, and identity. These themes often connect to issues of conflict, discrimination, and the complexities of living in unfamiliar cultural environments. Lately I have been exploring socio-political issues related to injustice, the environment, and consumerism. In my practice, I capture visuals in nature and society, focusing on movement and presence within space. I bridge the concrete and abstract and experiment with time-based media techniques that result in performances, installations, and short films. By transforming visuals and sounds of real subject matter and presenting them as abstract materials, I re-frame content to encourage viewers to reconsider their own contexts in nature and in society, inviting the imagination to dissolve static notions of being.