Marija Mandić (b.1990, Novi Sad, SRB) lives and works in Novi Sad. She is an artist whose practice spans photography, text, and found footage. Her work delves into the themes of the identity, past and memory, often within a familial context, blending personal narratives with broader social issues.
From 2025 Mandić is part of FUTURES platform nominated by Organ Vida festival. In 2023, Mandić was a finalist for the Mangelos Award, part of the Young Visual Artists Awards network. She won the Fotograf Magazine (CZ) open call in 2022 and received the VID Foundation for Photography grant in 2021 for her project White Bee. Her accolades also include the Dositeja scholarship, a grant from the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, and the Mali Princ Foundation award.
From 2015 to 2019, she worked as a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem (CZ), where she earned a PhD in Visual Communication with the dissertation Reli(e)ving Memory: Representations of Collective and Individual Remembrance through Late 20th and 21st Century Photographic Practices.
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