
Medium segment, red with black brush stroke 1990
Gera Urkom (b.1940)
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Artist working in a wide variety of media, including installations work, born in Yugoslavia. He studied at Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts until 1972 when he moved to England on a travelling scholarship, living in London from 1974. Group shows included Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh, 1973; Tokyo Biennale of Prints, Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, 1979; and Summer Show 3 at Serpentine Gallery, 1980. Solo shows included Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade, which like the Tate Gallery holds his work, 1975, and in the same year ICA.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)