Snezana has been
a freelance designer both in Europe and the USA. She has
designed for 225 theatrical productions as well as 22 television
series and 8 feature films. Her art and video works have
been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and
Prague.
She has a BFA in Art from Belgrade University and an MFA
in theatre design from UC Irvine. Last summer she was a
resident artist at Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. in a
design workshop conducted by Ming Cho Lee.
She is a recipient
of the highly coveted award in production design at the
Film International Festival in Pula and has, additionally,
received six national awards for theater set and costume
design. During the past fourteen seasons she has been a
resident costume designer at the Redlands Theatre Festival.
Her designs in Los Angeles, include: "Blacks",
directed by L.K. Richardson for EvidEnce Room, "Romeo
and Juliet" for the LA Shakespeare Festival as well
as "The Women Who Forgot Her Sweater" by O’Lan
Jones for Ford Theater.
Her most recent
performance art project "This Much We Know" was
an interdisciplinary collaboration facilitated by Judy Chicago.
This summer she co-produced performance art festival “Becoming-LA
–Culture… A Psychic Center of The Personality”
performed in Electric Lodge,Venice.
She served as
programming committee member at Side Street Project Live
in revitalizing the Art District in Downtown, LA. Her artwork
has been exhibited in the San Bernardino County Museum,
San Bernardino; DA Gallery, Pomona; Society for Photographic
Education, Los Angeles, as well as in Sherry Frumkin Gallery,
at Bergamont Station, Santa Monica. Her last solo exhibition
PG13 was presented at the IVC Gallery in May 2005.
After seven years
of teaching at California State University in Los Angeles
she settled down in Redlands. Since 2002, she has been teaching
full time at the Art Department at Crafton Hills College.