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Vera Kekić (Вера Кекић; born 2 March 1977) are Serbian and Bosnian painter and graphic designer, who lives in Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina-Republic of Srpska.

Biography
Vera Kekić graduated from the High School of Design, Department of Textile Design, in Belgrade in 1995. She graduated in 2001 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje, in the Department of Graphics in the class of professor Mirko Toljić. She defended her master's thesis in 2006 at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka in the class of professor Branko Miljuš.

From 2001 to 2018, she worked as a professor of fine arts, and from 2018 she creates as a freelance artist, painter and graphic artist. Since 2003, she is a member of the European Artists Association e.V. (EAA), Essen / Felbert, Germany. From 2005 to 2011 she was a member of the Association of Fine Artists of BiH - ULUBIH.

From 1998 she has participated in numerous international art symposia, art workshops, residency programs and other artistic events in the country and abroad - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Egypt, Romania, Spain, China, Austria.

Vera's artworks are in the holdings of museums and galleries, as well as numerous significant national and international, public and private collections around the world.

Permanent setup
Vera Kekic's works of art may be found as a part of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Egypt, the China Printmaking Museum in China

Prizes and awards
2014 - Acknowledgment for participation in the International Fine Arts Scientific Meeting and International Art Symposium, Faculty of Fine Arts, El Minya University, Egypt

2004 - Award of the 16th Youth Salon - Cairo, Egypt

2004 - Atlantic Award - Creative Calendar "San", Banja Luka, BiH

1998 - Award of the 9th Biennial of Yugoslav Student Graphic Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

1998 - Award of the Drawing Colony “Angelina Kojic-Gina”, Zrenjanin, Serbia

Exhibitions
She has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in the country and abroad - BiH, Serbia, Germany, Finland, Czech Republic, as well as over 100 collective exhibitions in the country and abroad - BiH, Serbia, Germany, Egypt, Netherlands, Italy, Romania, Montenegro, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Finland, Hungary, USA, Spain, France, China.