Drasko Bogdanovic
Drasko Bogdanovic (born 1977 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-Canadian artist, portraitist and photographer of homoeroticism. He emigrated to Canada in 1996 where he took up digital photography. Bogdanovic was a classically trained musician and self taught painter before taking up photography. An early fascination with Hollywood magazines and black & white photography influenced Bogdanovic to juxtapose classical posture with natural light in his male nude photography. Today his landscape and architecture photography capture cities’ geometry, immutable personalities and intrinsic emotions; his photography has appeared in domestic newspapers and magazines and has been featured in local and national advertising campaigns, and is held in private collections around the world. Drasko Bogdanovic is a regular columnist at fab, Toronto’s gay scene magazine. In 2010 he published his first book of erotic photography “Persuasion Of Men” featuring introduction by Brad Fraser. In 2012 he exhibited “Liberation” collection of explicit nude photographs in Serbia during Belgrade Pride Festival.
selected solo and group exhibitions:
2013
Headmaster Magazine no. 5
cover feature
Cub Camp 2013 Calendar
Queeria 2013 Calendar
2012
Liberation (solo exhibition)
Belgrade Pride Feature Exhibition
Secret Location, Belgrade, Serbia
Oct 2nd 2012
Submission (solo exhibition)
14th-27th May 2012
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto
Snap!2012 Silent Auction and Competition
March 25th 2012
Canada’s National Ballet School
Toronto
2011
Canadian Cameras At Work
September 2011
Contraste Agence d’Art/Alliance Francais,
Beijing China
Raw Me
June 18th – July 9th 2011
Bezpala Brown Gallery, Toronto
Naked man staring at you (solo exhibition)
April 5th-24th 2011
Hang Man Gallery, Toronto
Snap!2011 Silent auction and competition (best portrait)
March 27th 2011
National Ballet School Of Canada,
Toronto
2010
CRUSH (solo exhibition)
November 27th 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada Fundraiser, “Humanitarianism Through Art”
November 6th 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa
ArtPorn Lounge Show (Part of Hustlaball 2010)
22nd October 2010
KitKat Club, Berlin
Queer Salon Belgrade
3rd – 10th October 2010
Cultural Centre of Belgrade,
Belgrade, Serbia
INSTANT
June 17th 2010
Robert Goff Gallery,
New York
Snap! 2010 Photography Competition and Silent Auction
March 21, 2010
National Ballet School (400 Jarvis Street)
Toronto
Persuasion Of Men (Solo Exhibition)
May 7th-31st 2010
GRASP Erotica Bar
Toronto
One Night Stand with Sarah-Jane Schorlemer and Drasko Bogdanovic
January 22nd 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
2009
New Photographs (solo exhibition)
November 7th 2009
Flashbox Galerie
Munich, Germany
MAGICAL DREAMWORLD
Curated by Missy Marston-Shmelzer
Group Exhibit
November 6 – 29, 2009
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
Humanitarianism through Art
A Fundraiser for: Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada
September 25 – 27, 2009
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
One Night Stand (Solo Exhibition)
September 11 2009
La Petite Mort Gallery Ottawa
Canadian Cameras At Work: A Video Art and Photography Exhibition
August 27 2009—September 3 2009
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
Beijing, China
Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show
May 29 – July 31, 2009
Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery, U.S.A
THIS:HAS:BEEN (Solo Exhibition)
May 1st – 31st 2009
Blueprint, Toronto
SNAP! 09, Photography Competition and Silent Auction
March 21st 2009
Toronto
2008
Nuit Blanche/Art in the Fall,
October 1st 2008
401 Richmond, Toronto
First Queer Sarajevo Festival,
September 2008,
Academy Of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia
IN FLAGRANTI (Solo Exhibition)
August 8th – September 30th 2008
Come As You Are, Toronto
The Artful Nude,
July 11 – August 9, 2008
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Surfaces, (award of merit)
April 29 – Friday, May 23, 2008
John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
Camera Obscura Serbica,
Praxis Gallery, Toronto
Erotic Blender,
February 11th – March 31st, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
SNAP! 08, Photography Competition and Silent Auction
March 22nd 2008
Toronto
Third Annual Miniature Photography Exhibition,
Praxis Gallery, Toronto
