Tadej Pogačar (born in 1960 in Ljubljana) is a visual and intermedia artist. After studying ethnology and art history at the University of Ljubljana he went on to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he completed also his postgraduate studies. He is the founder and director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions of contemporary art, including the 10th Istanbul Biennale, the 49th Sao Paulo Biennale, the 3'd Tirana Biennale, the 49lf" Venice Biennale, and in shows at the ZKM Karlsruhe, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Stedelijkmuseum in Amsterdam, the Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Gagosian Gallery in New York. He has received numerous awards and grants for his work: the Franklin Furnace grant, New York (2001); the Trend Award for outstanding achievement in visual art, Ljubljana (2008); the Jakopič Award - Slovenian's highest fine arts award, Ljubljana (2009); and the Gyorgy Kepes fellowship at the Program in Art, Culture and Technology at the MIT, Boston (2012-2013). He lives in Ljubljana.
