Todor Mitrovic

Serbia

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, 1972. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine arts (FLU) at the University of Arts in Belgrade, 1997. Awarded Doctor of Arts degree, from the same Faculty/University, 2015.
Theoretically researching Church art through the fields of art theory, art history (byzantine), theology… Published numerous papers and one book (2012), which was later translated and published in two European languages.
Exhibited artworks at ten solo exhibitions, and at numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe.
Active engagement in the Belgrade art scene with abstract paintings (awarded for the exhibition in 1999). Painting icons since 1993. Having experienced diverse modes of artistic expression (portrait, abstract, and icon painting), Todor Mitrović is trying to make a bridge between the Church and contemporary art in his icons. Through artistic and theoretic postgraduate researches he achieved to exhibit icons as an academically recognized development of contemporary art scene (magisterium: “Iconography as a contemporary painting”; doctorate: “Icon – Between the Imprint, the Picture and the Word”). Teaching different courses about (portable) icon painting, on bachelor and master level, at the Academy of Serbian Orthodox Church for Fine Arts and Conservation in Belgrade, in status of (full) Professor.