Amer Kobaslija

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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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