Research Affiliate
Velibor Božović grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. When he was in his twenties, the country of his youth became a war zone and Velibor spent the duration of the siege of Sarajevo honing his survival skills. In 1999, he moved to Montréal where, for eight years, he worked as an engineer in aerospace industry until he gave up his engineering career to devote time fully to his art practice.
Božović earned Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montreal where he currently teaches. In his work he explores how images and sound influence memory and the role they play in the space where the historical, the fictional and the personal interrelate. His recent exhibition Unfolding Elsewheres in KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture in Bihać, BiH, also debuted an art and community radio project Radio Elsewheres that, for the duration of the exhibit, transmitted from within the exhibition space.
His work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. His projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ). In 2015 he was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.
