Lilly Otasevic is a Toronto-based award-winning visual artist, industrial designer and a curator. Lilly was born and raised in Serbia, (then) SFR Yugoslavia. She completed program at High School of Industrial Design in Belgrade, and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Lilly moved to Canada in 1994, and since then has exhibited in Canada, USA, Europe, United Arab Emirates and China. Even though a trained painter Otasevic's main body of work consists of sculptural and photo-based work. Her art is driven by her interests in nature and higher order of things in the universe. Her growing up in a society with recycling practices in the early 80s, has influenced Lilly’s interest in ecology and environment since childhood. She is using various materials and presently focusing on reclaimed bricks. Lilly has successfully completed several large-scale public sculptural, as well as industrial design projects in Ontario, Canada. Her sculptural work is also part of public art collection of the City of Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China.
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