Clarita Lulić is a PhD researcher, art psychotherapist and artist working in lens-based media, sculpture and performance.
After gaining a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Photographic Practice from Northumbria University, Clarita returned to complete a graduate fellowship and artist residency. Clarita is a British Fulbright Scholar and completed her MFA in Studio Art at Arizona State University, USA, followed by an MSc in Art Psychotherapy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. Her self-portraiture and cruise ship photography work have won the National Media Museum (UK) Photography Award, the Arts Council England Individual Grant for the Arts and have been exhibited and published internationally.
Clarita currently lives and works in Northern Ireland, where she is completing a PhD at Ulster University, exploring potential benefits of clay engagement in community ceramic studios in supporting mental health and wellbeing.
Contact: clarita.lulic@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2023
Metamorphosis, Ex-Libris Gallery, Newcastle University, UK.
2017
Soft Play, Solo Arts, Sunderland, UK.
2016
The Good Hurt, Newcastle Arts Centre (solo), Newcastle, UK.
2015
In Advance of Identity, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ.
The Good Hurt (SOLO) Night Gallery, Tempe, AZ MFA Thesis Exhibition.
2014
SOUVENIRS: Photography, Experience & Memory (or ’How Photography Ruined Your Life’) OVADA Gallery, Oxford, UK.
Emerge 2014 Juried Exhibition, Art Intersection, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.
Impromptu. Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2013
The Agency of Ideas-Juried Exhibition, ASU Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ.
Institutional Shenanigans.The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ ART detour 25th Anniversary show. The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ.
Moral Holiday. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK.
2012
Phototaxis. Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, AZ.
2011
The Trace of an Act. Paraty Em Foco, International Foto Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
EXPOSURE 2011. James Hyman Photography Gallery, Savile Row, London, UK.
MOVING ON. Arts Council England, Central Square Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Emerging Artists Showcase. Newcastle Gateshead arts fair 2010, Sage, Gateshead.
2010
The New Domestic Landscape. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
2009
This is what we do when we are not here. Staff Exhibition, Baltic CCA, Gateshead.
Graduate Fellowship Show. Gallery North, Northumbria University
Roses are Red. Mushroom Works, Newcastle.
2008
Eight minutes. Northumbria Photography Degree Show, AOP Galley, London, UK.
Collections
John Reyes Private Collection, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art National Collection, UK.
National Media Museum Permanent Collection, UK
Awards and Honours
2015
Arizona State University School of Art Special Talent Award Spring
Arizona State University School of Art Seymour Rosen Scholarship
2014.
Nathan Cummings Summer Travel Fellowship, Cummings Foundation award.
Best in Show, Emerge 2014, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.
Arizona State University Student Enrichment Grant, Fall &Summer 2014
Arizona State University GPSA Travel Award, Summer 2014
Arizona State University School of Art Special Talent award Fall & Spring
2012
US-UK Fulbright Postgraduate Award Scholarship 2012-2013
Arizona State University School of Art Special Talent award Fall 2012.
2011
Arts Council England, Individual Grant for the Arts.
North East Photography Network Development Bursary 2011.
Emerging Photographers 2011 , Selected Winner (UK) Magenta Flash Forward.
2010
National Media Museum Photography Award 2010.
Artists Access to Arts Colleges Scheme (AA2A) Northumbria University.
2008
Northumbria University School of Arts prize for Outstanding Photographic Achievement
Publications
2015
Narc Magazine, article ‘The Good Hurt’, May 2016.
2014
Photography Oxford Festival 2014 Catalogue, October.
2012
'The Great Escape: PHOTOGRAPHY' feature in Journal Culture Magazine, UK,
2011
'Seven Short One Long' 6 page artist feature , VISION Magazine, China, July
Magenta Flash Forward 2011-2012, Selected Artist (UK), July