Slađana Matić Trstenjak (b. 1985, Bosnia and Herzegovina) received her MFA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar in 2010, where she studied under Professor Antun B. Švaljek. To date, she has held more than forty solo exhibitions, including at Abstract Project Gallery (Paris, France, 2026), Vladimir Bužančić Gallery (Zagreb, Croatia, 2025), Gallery of Contemporary Art (Pančevo, Serbia, 2024), BV Gallery (Klagenfurt, Austria, 2024), Gallery 96 (Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023), Gallery of the Maribor Fine Artists Society (2022), the 9th International Festival of Fine Arts – Collage and Assemblage (Kranj, Slovenia, 2020), and UGM Šop, Maribor Art Gallery (2019), among others. She has participated in more than 150 group exhibitions, including at the May Salon of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies – Soft Power; at the Ptuj City Gallery (Slovenia, 2025); Réalités Nouvelles at the Taiwan Wu Deng Yi Art Museum (Taipei, Taiwan, 2024); Biennial of Textile Art BIEN at Globus Exhibition Hall (Kranj, Slovenia, 2023); Metamorphoses (Lacuna Festival) at the Artenmala Gallery (Punta Mujeres, Spain, 2023); Different, Excellent: Young Artists at the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020); and Unknown Proximity: Slovenian Contemporary Painting, Proféta Gallery (Budapest, Hungary, 2018). In 2023, she received the Prix Le Quotidien de l’Art at the Salon Réalités Nouvelles in Paris, where the award jury included Stéphanie Pioda, art critic for Centre Pompidou magazine. She is also the recipient of the working scholarship for young artists, awarded by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture (2019), as well as awards from the Maribor Fine Artists Society (DLUM) in 2025, 2019, and 2016, among others. She lives and works as a freelance visual artist in Maribor, Slovenia, where the Municipality of Maribor has awarded her an artist’s studio.