Ksenija Turčić (Zagreb, 1963) took her MFA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, 1987, class of Ferdinand Kulmer. Since 2010 she has been on the faculty of the Academy, in the painting department. In parallel with attaining extensive experience as an educator, she has achieved further knowledge in the artistic domain. She attended an advanced course, Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, run by Joseph Kosuth in Como, organised by the Fondazione Antonio Ratti. She also spent time studying in Čimelice in the Czech Republic (2000), where she produced the projects A Hiding Place and Light and Shadow. In the same year, facilitated by the District of Columbia Arts Center, she had a stay in Washington DC. There she produced the project True Stories, gave lectures and worked with artists from America and Europe. In 2001 she had a scholarship in New York organised by the Location One Gallery. During this time she produced the projects Phase and News. She took part in a project of the Site–ation International Europe group, in the context of which she realised the works Where? and The Meal. These works were shown at the exhibition Sense in Place in Cardiff, organised by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (2005). She has won several prizes and awards: the Grand Prix of the 20th Youth Salon, Zagreb (1988); Prize of the international competition Artists Against Hostility to Foreigners, Graz, Austria (1993); Prize of the Art Festival of Mainz, Germany (1999); Grand Prix of the 5th Zagorje Salon, Krapina (2000); and the annual Vjesnik Josip Račić Prize for Art, Zagreb (2001).