Singapore
Milenko Prvacki was born 1951, Yugoslavia. Master of Fine Arts painting from the Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania. Became a Singapore citizen in 2002. In 2012 he received the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in Singapore.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts LaSalle College of the Arts since 1994, and currently Senior Fellow of the college.
Milenko’s paintings reflect the liveliness of his thoughts and life events.
Upon arrival in Singapore in mid 1990s he painted his first works in Singapore entitled ‘Home’, ‘Time’, most of which are in the National Art Gallery, Singapore, along with numerous larger works in the same collection.
His first travel experiences were from Bali, India and Australia. Milenko uses precious, beautiful colours to records his memories, thoughts and life events. During the 25 years or so living in Singapore Milenko presented no less that 20 exhibitions in Singapore and in various museums and art fairs around the world.
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