Glorija Lizde is visual artist whose research-based practice interweaves concepts of autobiography, memory and belonging through staged and documentary photography, archives, collage and text. She is interested in examining intersections between private and collective histories by re-creating and reinterpreting personal narratives. She is based in Split, Croatia.
b. 1991 / Split, Croatia
Education
2014-2018 / MA in Photography, Academy of Dramatic Art, HR
2011-2014 / BA in Film&Video, Academy of Arts of the University of Split, HR
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2025
I Swallowed My Dream, Galerija Otok, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Fearless Youth, Gallery Galženica, Zagreb, Croatia
2024
Repetitions, Rehearsals, Stagings, Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia
F20.5, Galerija O.K., Rijeka Croatia
2023
Repetitions, Rehearsals, Stagings, Museum of Fine Art, Croatia
A bed for Jordan Neely, Institute for Contemporary Art, Croatia
Anatomy of transience, Garage Kamba, Croatia
2022
What did my face look like before my parents were born?, Gallery Šiška, Ljubljana, SLO
What did my face look like before my parents were born?, Gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, HR
2021
Becoming, NMG@Praktika, Split, HR
2020
Becoming, Gallery Događanja, Zagreb, HR
2018
F20.5, Gallery PM, HDLU, Zagreb, HR
F20.5, Gallery f8, Zagreb, HR
F20.5, Salon Galić, Split, HR
Group exhibitions (selection)
2025
At the End of the Small Hours, WHW x Etnographic Museum Zagreb, Croatia
She Who Starts the Song…, curated by Valentine Umansky with Hana Halilaj, 17th Gjon Mili International Exhibition of Photography and Moving Image, National Gallery of Kosovo, Kosovo
20 years of Erste Fragments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Croatia
2024
Hustera, curated by Veronika Molnar, Liget Gallery, Hungary
Young Portfolio ’24, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
2023
Familiar Fantoms, curated by Veronika Molnár, Residency Unlimited, New York
19th Blue Salon, National Museum Zadar, Croatia
Floodlit Room – Women’s Photographic Practice in Croatia, Nikola Tesla Technical Museum
Croatia
In-between, The Bridge and Tunnel Gallery, New York, USA
I constantly wonder what time it is where you are, curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2022
57th Zagreb Salon, HDLU, Croatia
Radoslav Putar Award – Finalists exhibition, Salon Galić, Split, HR
Situation in Additional Exhibition Spaces, Gallery Stančić, Zagreb, HR
Are you sure you want to leave? Selection of the Ostrale Biennale „Breathturn“, Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary
2021
Of This World – Envisioning Alternative Cartographies, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Hungary
Peripheral histories, Spot Gallery, Zagreb, HR
Breathturn, OSTRALE Biennale O21, Dresden, Germany
2020
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
16. Erste Fragments, Lauba – house for people and art, Zagreb, HR
35th Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, HR
Yearbook 2020, Shutterhub (online)
2019
Perspectives: Photography Storytelling, Cultural Center Vlada Divljan, Belgrade, SR
Perspectives: Photography Storytelling, Rich Mix Cultural Center, London, UK
Almissa Open Art Festival, City Museum Omiš, Omiš, HR
Caught reflections, Exhibition salon Izidor Krsnjavi, Zagreb, HR
2018
Parallel Review, Mercado de Santa Clara, Lisboa, PT
Bridges: New Image, Lauba, Zagreb, HR
Being/Seeing, PARALLEL – European Photo Based Platform, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK
Erste Fragments 14., Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb, HR
2016
Rovinj Photodays 2016, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, HR
New names, ULUPUH, Zagreb, HR
2015
ISPIT 2015., Gallery SC, Zagreb, HR
New names, ULUPUH, Zagreb, HR
State Abed, GT22, Maribor, SLO
City | Data | Future – Interactions in hybrid urban space, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, HR
Local Journal, City Gallery Fonticus, Grožnjan, HR
2014
State Abed, Magacin Gallery, Beograd, SRB
MU / FIV, The Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split, HR
2013
State Abed, Gallery of Arts (GALUM), Split, HR
II. biennale of Croatian young photographers, Rector’s Palace, Zadar, HR
Awards
2022
Recipient of Radoslav Putar award for best contemporary artist in Croatia under the age of 40, Institute for Contemporary Art and Residency Unlimited
2020
Recipient of Artist of the Year, ESA- Elle Style Awards, Croatia
Nominated for Joop Swart Masterclass 2020, World Press Photo Foundation
One of the recipients of 16. Erste Fragments, Erste & Steiermarkischë Bank, Croatia
2018
Winner of Portfolio review at Organ Vida Photography Festival
One of the recipients of 14. Erste Fragments, Erste & Steiermarkischë Bank, Croatia
2017
Recipient of Deans’ Award, University of Zagreb, HR
Residencies / Participations
2025
Towards the (In)tangible monument to Women’s Labour, artistic research with Slobodne veze, Croatia
2024
Institutionalised body, artistic research on treatments of body in psychiatric institutions, in collaboration with Gallery Miroslav Kraljević
2023
Resident at Residency Unlimited with Trust for Mutual Understanding and The Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Bombardelli 2023: E57, participating in an artistic research together with writer and sociologist Dario Dunatov, Slobodne veze
2022
Recipient of residency by Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation, Artist in Residence, San Sano, Italy
2021
Participated in Peripheral histories, workshop with Maria Kapajeva, Spot Gallery, Croatia
Selected for 4th cycle of Parallel – European Photo Based Platform
2018
Selected for 1st cycle of Parallel – European Photo Based Platform
Publications
2021
F20.5 published by PhotoIreland as a part of The Library Project edition
Fearless Youth published in Changing Times: Art facing a new world by The Eyes Publishing
2020
YEARBOOK 2020, Shutterhub, 170 x 250mm, 116 pages
2015
Inhabit – where do you feel at home, Sara Signorini, Martina Strata, Giulia Tassinari, IED Milan
Collections
Erste Steiermärkische Bank Collection, Erste Fragments, Croatia
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Croatia
