Marija Tanaskovic Papadopoulos

Marija was born in Belgrade / Serbia in 1976 where she graduated from the University of Fine Arts in 2001 as a Sculptor. In 2004 she moved to Chicago with her husband. In the beginning, she was working as a fine artist in traditional painting and sculpturing techniques primarily. However, during her creative journey she started creating artworks with modern technologies, also. Today she is a multimedia artist of a very wide spectrum. In addition to traditional fine art techniques, she is skilled with Adobe Creative Suite Programs for Graphic Arts, Unreal engine for creation of 3D space creation and ZBrush for 3D modeling. 

While she is sculpting in clay she can also sculpt in ZBrush as well, working in the studio with the computer screen. The same is with painting. While she is creating traditional oil on canvas, acrylics, pastels, drawings and watercolors, she is capable of making digital graphics in Digital Fine art techniques, where Digital photography belongs, as well. Her creations are always vibrant and captivating. 

Tanaskovic obtained the highest recognition and many very important awards for her art from the world of renewed critics and curators in Italy, Canada and the United States, France, Monaco, UK, Latino America, South Korea, Egypt, and Serbia. The international critics placed her among the Best Contemporary Artists of today in many important books and publications.