1978 M.A. Design University of Minnesota
1974 B. A. Studio Arts University of Minnesota
1970 B.A. Law University of Split Croatia
1996 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
1993 Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant
1991 Open Studio Day sponsored by the Walker Art Center
1990 Bush Artist Fellowship for painting
December 4, 2009 - January 16, 2010 - FACE, FORM, FIGURE, the Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
November 22, 2008 – June14, 2009 - LOOKING INTO LIKENESS: PORTRAITS IN THE WEISMAN COLLECTION, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
May16, 2009 - PORTRAITS, solo display at the Jock Colville Exhibition Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge England.
June 9 – September 17, 2006 - 12 ARTISTS OF THE WOMEN’S ART REGISTRY OF MINNESOTA (WARM), Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota.
November 5 – December 18, 2005 - LOST AND FOUND IN AMERICA, a retrospective, College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
March 30 – April 9, 2004 – ICARUS, a solo exhibition, Queens’ College, Cambridge England.
September 2 –17, 2004 - ICARUS’ FLIGHT, a solo exhibition, State Archives in Rijeka, Croatia.
March, 2004, PAINTINGS, Jock Colville Exhibition Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge England.
October 19 – November 18, 2000, NECESSARY DIFFERENCES II@THE SOAP FACTORY, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
September, 2000, FACULTY EXHIBITION, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
January 7 – February 25, 1999 - PRESENCE/ABSENCE, organized by the Center For The Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota.
July 3 – August 30, 1998, WOMEN IN THE WEISMAN COLLECTION: The spirit of Seneca Falls, Frederic R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
October, 1998, FIVE PAINTERS, Hennepin community College, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
November 1 – November 23, 1998, FACULTY EXHIBITION, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
June 14 – July 20, HORIZONS, the Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.
June, 1996 - THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY PROJECT: A BOOK PROJECT, Frederick R. Weismann Art Museum, University of Minnesota.
February 19 – March 22, 1995 – WAR PAINTINGS, solo exhibition, St. John’s University Gallery, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
February 2 – March 3, 1995, PORTRAITS, Hamline University Art Gallery, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
April 7 – June 17, 1995, THE INTERNATINAL LIBRARY, A BOOK PROJECT, by Helmut Lohr, Center For Book Arts, New York, New York.
July, 1995, NECESSARY DIFFERENCES, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
July 27 – August 5, 1995 – PORTRAITS, Diocletian Palace Museum, sponsored by the artist’s
Institution - HDLU, Split, Croatia.
November 11 – December 8, 1995, FACULTY EXHIBITION, Minneapolis College of Art and design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
July – August, 1994, MINNESOTA ARTISTS, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Univerity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
January 1 – March 11, 1994, BOOK PROJECT, Stadtgallerie Lunen, Germany.
April 1 – April 18, 1994, UNKNOWN TERITORY, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
April, 1992, PAINTING, at the Chapelle De La Sorbonne., The Sorbonne university, Paris.
Touring exhibition
1992/1992 ART AND THE LAW, sponsored by the West Publishing Company, Eagan, Minnesota.
September 11 – October 18, 1992, BIRTH OF FREEDOM an exhibition in conjunction with the BREAKTHROUGH: THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AT THE BERLIN WALL, Macalester Galleries, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota. BREAKTHROUGH was organized by the Deutches Historiches Museum of Berlin and the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, Berlin.
February 10 – March 10, 1991, PAINTING AT THE NASH, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
October 14 – November 5, 1989, LANDSCAPE RELIEFS TORSOS AND SELF PORTRAITS OF AN ARTIST IN EXILE, Macalester Galleries, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC LECTURES:
2002 April 11 Panel Discussion: Genocide in our Time, Parts Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2002 March 17 Panel Discussion: Art Criticism Today, at the Winona State University, Minnesota.
2001 Studio Lecture about Genocide – fund raising event for a Minneapolis synagogue.
2000 Compleat Scholar Class University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1999 Seminar and Panel Discussion in conjunction to PRESENCE/ABSENCE Exhibition on Holocaust and Genocide.
1998 Visiting Artist lecture, Studio Arts Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1997 Fine Arts Forum Visiting Artist speaker Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1996 Cable TV 41 Special Feature: Vesna Kittelson's War Paintings, aired February 26.
1995 Reproduction of Vukovar – installation work Encyclopedia of Croatian Art, p.477, Zagreb, Croatia.
1995 Illustration of a brochure “Genocide in Our Time”, Minnesota Coalition for Human Rights in Former Yugoslavia.
1992 Illustration in Feminist Studies – SELF PORTRAIT, p.6. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland