Edina Seleskovic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was an exchange student in the United States when the destructive Bosnian War displaced Edina from her home and family. Turning to her art for solace, her sculpted and painted 3-dimensional female figures provided a powerful emotional anchor, enabling her to artistically channel her torment and angst into her art, and pay homage to the accomplished women in her family.

In 1999, she received a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. Her works have been exhibited in over 40 group and solo shows in galleries across the US, in Europe, and Asia.

Edina Seleskovic’ fascinating life and rising carrier reflect her multiple horizons. Not only is she passionately active in the international art world, Edina is also highly recognized fashion designer with Anie Rexe fashions, whose avant-garde creations have appeared in Cosmopolitan and Smock Magazines.

Her collaborative efforts with artists of many disciplines have resulted in founding of the New York-based artist collective The Stoodio and fashion collaborative Anie Rexe. She is one of the founding artists of the Williamsburg artist community in New York. Her collaborative efforts do not stop there. She is noted for the public performance Take One in collaboration with photographer Emily Raw, a video performance Maid in Chinatown with artist Aaron Sheppard was presented in Being for the first Chinese Biennial in 2008, and numerous others.

Edina’s public works include several interesting projects. It started with a large mural at the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the invitation of the Bosnian Prime Minister while she was a student at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. She collaborated with Bosnia’s famous artist Adin Hebib for the first time then. This collaboration continued on other projects and in 2004 they together ventured into creating a large mural/sculpture at the entrance of the tallest building in Bosnia and Herzegovina Avaz Business Tower. This piece is 30 feet tall and 89 feet wide. Edina continued her public works with sculpture Dress for a Princess commissioned as a gift for the British royal couple to be married in 2011. Her collaboration with conceptualist Alexander Viscio led to the pilot Artist in Residence project and a public sculpture that was an installation and a large public performance with 1000 local students involved. Project titled Occupy Air continued as the Austrian Ministry of Culture commissioned them to build such sculpture in Sarajevo for the 100 anniversary of the assassination of Duke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which instigated the First World War. Edina’s projects are only getting bigger and more complex. In 2018 Edina will build a 26 feet tall Solar Tree in New Hampshire, a public sculpture and a monument that will promote and educate about the sustainable sources of energy, while building a community around it. She was invited to build such trees in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Edina’s project Think Freedom: Between Today and Tomorrow is a multimedia public art project that incorporates sculpture, installation, performance, light, sound, film, art of literary word, and new communication technologies. This project connects wide audiences to contemporary art and young generations to the power of art creation. In 2016/18 Think Freedom is on a global tour connecting 20 global cities through culture and idea of freedom while carrying message of young students. Associated Press presented image from the first Think Freedom installation in Sarajevo as the Global Image of the Day.

Edina is at home often. In 2007, Bosnia issued a Special Edition Postage Stamp featuring a painting by Edina Seleskovic. Bosnian National Basketball Team wore jerseys specially designed by Edina for the Eurobasket 2013 in Slovenia. She is the founder of the first Artist in Residence program in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the International Atelier Ismet Mujezinovic in Tuzla, with the support of the American Embassy in Sarajevo and the International Portrait Gallery in Tuzla.

Edina’s life and art have been a subject of numerous magazine articles, radio and TV shows, and a Voice of America TV documentary titled “Edina’s Story”.

She is a recipient of Sculpture Space Fellowship for 2010/2011 and Can Serrat residency in Barcelona, Spain in 2011, Gosce Gallery residency in Austria, and Sam and Adele Golden Foundation residency in New York for October of 2015. Edina is currently working on several exhibitions and projects in Europe She lives and works in New York, USA and in her hometown Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.