Dušan Otašević (1940)
Dušan Otašević was born in 1940 in Belgrade. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1966 in the class of professor Ljubica Cuca Sokić. He has been a member of the Artists’ Association of Serbia since 1967. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1972. He has been an associate member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 2003 and has been a regular member since 2009. He is the director of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts gallery. He was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts. He edited around 30 individual exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions at home and abroad.
He is the winner of many noted awards and accolades, with some outstanding ones: Politika’s award from the Vladislav Ribnikar Foundation from the exhibition at the Gallery Sebastian in 1985, the award from the Ivan Tabaković Foundation in 1992, the painting award at the October salon in 1993, the city of Čačak award at the 17th Nadežda Petrović Memorial in 1994, the Mića Popović award, the Sava Šumanović in 2002, the Milan Konjović award in 2010, the City of Belgrade’s award in 2004.