Artist Intersection with Miha Strukelj

Name: Artist Intersection with Miha Strukelj
Start: 2025-08-19T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-08-19T19:00:00-07:00
Location: 18th Street Arts Center (Olympic Campus)

Schedule

Tue Aug 19 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

18th Street Arts Center (Olympic Campus) | Santa Monica, CA

These gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food conversation and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist: Miha Štrukelj.
Miha Štrukelj lives and works in Ljubljana Slovenia. He is a visual artist working primarily in painting and also focusing on drawing and site-specific work. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Ljubljana Slovenia in 2001 with a Master of Fine Arts. He has several awards including the Pollock-Krasner Grant 2008/09 and the Henkel Drawing Award 2008 Trust for Mutual Understanding 2014 May Salon Ljubljana 2019 Extempore Piran – Major Purchase prize 2023. He attended several International Artist-In-Residency Programs since 2007. His work has also been included in the National Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana City Museum Ljubljana among other national and international private and public collections. He has also been selected for “Slovenian Art 1995–2005” “Seven Sins; Ljubljana–Moscow” “U3 – Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia” “Art in Slovenia 2005–2015” and “Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia” at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana and Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana 27th & 28th Graphic Biennial Ljubljana 4th Beijing Biennial and various other national and international selections. His work has been presented in “Vitamin P; New Perspectives in Painting” (Phaidon 2002). In 2009 he represented Slovenia in the Slovenian Pavilion at 53rd Venice Biennial.