Biography
Ana (Bihelovic) Grigorjev was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated from the Design High School and subsequently from the Academy of Fine Arts (FLU) in Belgrade, Painting Department.
She has been working as an illustrator of children’s books (picture books, course books, novels, textbooks...). Up to date, she has illustrated more than 180 children’s books, 50 picture books and 20 course books for local and international publishers, such as: Narodna knjiga, Litera Books Greece, Nolit, Zavod za udzbenike i nastavna sredstva, Pcelica, Calamus, Decja knjiga, Kreativni Centar, Evro Book, Eduka, Bookland, Carobna knjiga etc.
Some of the books she illustrated have been sold and translated in more than 20 countries and have become very popular. Such as: A Book for Every Girl and A Book for Every Boy (Kreativni Centar), Snow Queen (Evro Book)...
Since 2003, she has been a member of the ULUPUDS (The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia).
Solo Exhibitions:
- Lazarevac, 2000, Illustrations exhibition “Our Lovely Childhood” within 11th Children’s Funny Festival
- Novi Sad, 2003, “Front Page Stories” Exhibitions within “Zmajeve decje igre”
- Lazarevac, 2004, “My Pictures, My Dreams” illustrations exhibition
- Lazarevac, 2007, “Stories from the Forest” llustrations exhibition
- Lazarevac, 2013, "Forgotten stories" illustrations exhibition
- Belgrade, 2013, "Happy gallery" SKC, llustrations exhibition
- Mladenovac, 2015, llustrations exhibition within Kids Fest
- Belgrade, 2016, "Happy gallery" SKC, llustrations exhibition
- Tuzla 2018., llustrations exhibition within "Vezeni most"
- Mionica 2018., llustrations exhibition from book "Mimoland"
Group Exhibitions:
- Belgrade, 1996, Academy of Fine Arts gallery
- Belgrade, 1996, Dom Omladine gallery
- Belgrade, 1997, Dom Omladine gallery
- Belgrade, 1998, Dom Omladine gallery
- Belgrade, 1999, Public University “Braca Stamenkovic”, “The Portrait through Time” exhibition
- Belgrade, 2000, “Singidunum” gallery, “The Pencil Looks at Animals” exhibition
- Belgrade, 2002, “Singidunum” gallery, “Self Mirroring” exhibition
- Belgrade, 2003, “Singidunum” gallery, “New Appointed Members” exhibition
- Belgrade, 2007, “Progres” gallery, “Winter saloon”
- Belgrade, 2007, “Singidunum” gallery, “Small Format” exibition
- Belgrade, 2007, “The Belgrade Public Bath” gallery, 39th May exibition “Acceleration”
- Belgrade, 2009, Museum of Applied Art, "Illustrators of Kreativni centar" exibition
- Belgrade, 2011, "Cvijeta Zuzoric" Art Pavilion, 46th Golden Feather of Belgrade
- Novi Sad, 2012, Book Saloon, The First European Book Illustration Festival "BookIll FEST"
- Belgrade, 2012, Public University “Braca Stamenkovic”, “Small Format” exhibition
- Belgrade, 2012, “Happy gallery” SKC, annual exhibition of painting and drawing department
- Belgrade, 2013, "Happy gallery" SKC, annual exhibition of painting and drawing depertment
- Belgrade 2013., "Cvijeta Zuzoric" Art pavilion, 47. Golden pen
- Bratislava 2013, Bibiana (BIB)
- Novi Sad 2014., Book Saloon, The First European Book Illustration Festival "BookIll FEST"
- Belgrade 2014., "Happy gallery" SKC, annual exhibition of painting and drawing depertment
- Belgrade, 2014., Dom Omladine gallery
- Novi Sad, 2015., Book Saloon, The First European Book Illustration Festival "BookIll FEST"
- Belgrade, 2015., National Bank of Serbia gallery, 48. Golden pen
- Belgrade, 2016., SKC gallery, annual exhibition of painting and drawing department
- Novi Sad, 2017., Book Saloon, The First European Book Illustration Festival "BookIll FEST"
- Belgrade, 2017., Progres gallery, "Horizonti", annual exhibition of painting and drawing department
- Belgrade, 2017., Progres gallery, 49. Golden pen
- Novi Sad, 2019., Book Saloon, The First European Book Illustration Festival "BookIll FEST"
- Belgrade, 2019., SKC gallery, "Memories"
- Belgrade, 2019., National Bank of Serbia gallery, exhibition "Art today"
- Bratislava, 2019., Bibiana (BIB)
- Belgrade, 2019., The residence of princess Ljubica, 50. Golden pen Belgrade
- Belgrade, 2019., ULUPUDS gallery, exhibition "Miniature"
* Academy of Fine Arts Award for mosaic, "Dzelebdzic", Belgrade, 1998.
* Diploma in the field of illustration of the painting and drawing department at the annual exhibition, Belgrade, 2013.
* Winner of the prize from ULUPUDS on 58. International Belgrade book fair 2013. for illustrating books for children
* Recognition on “BookILL Fest” for invidual illustration from the book "Snow queen", Novi Sad 2014.
- Praise “Dositejevo pero” for book illustrations “Snow queen”, Belgrade 2014.
-Diploma in the field of illustration of the painting and drawing department at the annual exhibition, Belgrade, 2014.
