BIOGRAPHY
Velibor Božović grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. When he was in his twenties, the country of his youth became a war zone and Velibor spent the duration of the siege of Sarajevo honing his survival skills. In 1999, he moved to Montreal where, for eight years, he worked as an engineer in aerospace industry until he gave up his engineering career to fully dedicate himself to his art practice.
Božović holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montreal where he now teaches. His work explores how images and sound shape memory and how they operate in the space where the historical, the fictional and the personal interrelate. His recent exhibitions at KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture in Bihać and Manifesto Gallery / Kuma International in Sarajevo also featured the debut of Radio Elsewheres - an art radio project that, for the duration of the exhibit, transmitted from within the exhibition space. As an online and terrestrial low-power digital radio art project, Radio Elsewheres explores displacement—whether voluntary or forced—of human and non-human bodies, languages, ideas, recipes, musical tuning systems, stories, and more.
Božović’s work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. His projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ). In 2015, he was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.
EDUCATION
MFA, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
BFA, Studio Arts,, Concordia University, Montréal, QC