Milorad Bata Mihailović

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Milorad Bata Mihailović enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1946. In 1947, he left for Zadar with some of his colleagues. He departed from the Academy in 1947/1948 and continued to work independently. During 1947, he was a member of the Zadar Group, and from 1951, he became a founding member of the group of artists the Eleven Artists. Mihailović began exhibiting his works in 1947 and had the first solo show in Belgrade in 1951, at the Gallery of the Association of Serbian Artists (ULUS). He moved to Paris in 1952. He became a non-resident member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1985. He had solo shows in Paris (Galerie Rive Gauche, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Gallery Ariel, Maison du Département des syndicats du Val de Marn etc), Belgrade (Gallery ULUS, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, Gallery of Serbian Academy of Sciences and arts), Copenhagen, Oslo, London etc. Gallery RIMA organised three exhibitions in Belgrade and Kragujevac. In 2023, in collaboration with Gallery of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Gallery RIMA organised an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of Mihailović’s birth, and prepared a monography dedicated to the artist. His works can be found in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in Ostend, the Museum of Contemporary Art and National Museum in Belgrade, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Gallery of Fine Arts Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić in Novi Sad, the Modern Gallery in Budva, Gallery RIMA in Belgrade, and the Museum Zepter in Belgrade. Mihailović’s works are also present in foreign and local private collections and many institutions. He passed away in Paris, France, in 2011.