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Toni Franović - Biography

Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15th, 1964. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he studied under professor Vasilije Jordan. In 1992/93 he joined the Fine Arts Project in Arad, Israel. During the academic year of 1994/95 he was an artist in residence at Kresge Academic Center, American University in Washington D.C. From 1995 to 2004 he worked as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. During that period he was the head of drawing and painting field work at the same Academy of Fine Arts (Legrad, Brač, Hvar, Mljet...). He is a fine arts consultant of the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity of Los Angeles since 1992, as well as the center’s representative for Europe. He is affiliated with Judaica Project Foundation, Washington D.C., since 2000. His works are found in public and private art collections in Europe and the United States including the U.S. Department of State, World Bank in Washington D.C. and the E.l. Ritz Collection in Milwaukee. Numerous public buildings have his applied art design, such as Ohr Kodesh Synagogue and Chapel and Oxnam Church, Greater Washington Area, and Central Department Store ‘Nama’ and JCC Building in Zagreb, Croatia.