About

Ljubodrag Andric ’s photographic color field abstractions reveal ambiguous, meditative cityscapes spanning the globe. Longtime friend and colleague Edward Burtynsky comments on the work, “What is clear is that all one needs to understand these images is contained within them. The colors, annihilation of depth, taut compositions; excruciating and infinite texture, iridescent light, impossible shadows, the traces of shifting purpose and history, layered on those walls – all jockeying for attention.” Barry Schwabsky, critic and contributor to Artforum, Flash Art, and Art in America elaborates, “Andric suggests that the abstract feelings to be found by way of actual places, far from being diluted by compromise, are as resonant and powerful as those without any referent in reality… That Andric’s works always show us a place, letting it spread itself out before our gaze, is crucial. Equally crucial is that the place is observed with such particularity that it can no longer accord with our idea of that place.”

For over thirty years, Ljubodrag Andric’s work has focused on re-contextualizing the urban landscape. Born in Belgrade in 1965 to a family of artists—his mother an actress, his father a writer, and his brother a painter—Andric began concentrating on photography at the age of sixteen. In 1988, while studying literature in Belgrade, Andric held his first exhibition at the Modern Art Gallery in Belgrade, addressing the relationship between space and architecture, a theme central to his visual exploration.

In 2002, Andric relocated to Toronto, where he currently lives and works. In 2005, re-nationalized as a Canadian citizen. Ljubodrag Andric’s work has been exhibited at Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire, France (2023-2024); the Museum of Fine Arts in Le Locle, Switzerland (2017); the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice (2016); and the Triennale di Milano (2016), among others. In 2016, Skira published Ljubodrag Andric: Works 2008-2016.