Milosevic
Aleks Milosevic is an Ottawa, Canada-based artist and psychologist. His work has been presented in gallery contexts, and he curated his first solo exhibition in 2025 within a historic home setting. His art is held in private collections and has entered a gallery collection.
Artist Statement
Drawing from Classical, Byzantine, and Surrealist aesthetic sensibilities, his work continues the figurative-representational tradition and visually represents symbols, figures, and stories with enduring cultural-historical and archetypal significance to explore themes related to human aggression, sexuality, relationships, and psychologies that cycle through our histories. Emerging from the deeply personal and moving to the universal, the work intends to engage viewers’ perceptual curiosities, evoke emotional experiences, and raise a multiplicity of interpretive possibilities and questions.
Artistic Process
His drawing and collage practices rely heavily on 1. the use of paper, and 2. the re-purposing of photographic imagery. Drawings are rendered on paper with graphite, coloured pencil, or ink; analog collages are “built” by adhering paper materials cut from various sources (e.g., art books, animal encyclopedias, etc.) to paper. Photographic imagery often serves as the basis for drawings; analog collages frequently merge components cut from photographs with those cut from illustration and other non-photographic image sources. Paper materializes themes that are at once fragile and enduring, while photographic imagery makes us consider issues related to memory and historicity.
The traces of the artist’s hand left behind by mark-making and by cutting, like a fingerprint of a soul embedded into material, prioritize the intimate human aspects that drive creativity.
EDUCATION
2011
2007
PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
MA, Clinical Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2025
"The Cycles Poetic", Centre for Interpersonal Relationships, Ottawa, Canada
Group
2024
2023
"Miracles in December" (online), Youn Contemporary, Montreal, Canada
"Winter Group Exhibition", Youn Contemporary, Montreal, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Découvert Fine Art Gallery, Rockport, MA, USA
Private Collections, Canada, USA, France