Amer Kobaslija is a Bosnian-American painter.
He was born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia in 1975.[1][2] He left Bosnia in 1993, then spent time in a German refugee camp. In 1997 he immigrated to Jacksonville, Florida.[3][2][4] He received an MFA degree in painting from Montclair State University.[5]
In 2012 he executed a series of paintings dealing with the destruction wrought by the 2011 Japanese Tsunami.[6][7]
He was a 2019 nominee for the Orlando Museum of Art's 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art.[8] Kobaslija was a 2013 Guggenheim fellow.[9] Kobaslija is an assistant professor of art at University of Central Florida.[10]
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- ^ "Fourth SVAD faculty member selected as 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art finalist".
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