Born in 1955. in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Graduated  and finished Third Degree studies from the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade.

Member of ULUPUDS, ASIFA, Belgrade Ex-libris Circle (Secretary General), Art Directors Club Serbia

Full Professor of Illustration at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade.
Professor of Animation and Head of the Animation Department at Dunav Film School, Belgrade.
Founder of the subject of Animation at the FAA, Belgrade and the FAA Animation Studio (2006).
Head of the Digital Arts Group of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate studies at the University of Arts, Belgrade.

Fields of interest: graphic design (illustration, logo, poster, ex-libris, comic), art graphic, animation, music.

30 one-man exhibitions (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Ljubljana, Kopar, Annecy, Orleans, LegnicaÉ).

Illustrated for the New York Times Book Review.

Made 13 animated films: The Circus Departs (1982); Stop (1983); It's Not Whether You Win or Lose (1984); Tango Ragtime (1985, Dunav Film); The Tower of Bababel (1988, Zagreb Film); Ogres and Bogies (1989, Avala film); Farty (1993); Light in A-Major (1995); Invisible and Poorly Visible Animal Species (1998, Dunav Film); Magician (1999); Wanted (2001); All Together on the Wireless Machine (2004); Metamorph (2005, Rastko Ciric & BS Group)

Awards for animation: Munich 1982; Zagreb 1988; Ottawa 1988; Belgrade 1989; Titograd 1989; Belgrade 1993, Belgrade 1989; Golden Knight, Kiev, Ukraine, 1998; Belgrade, 1999; Grand-Prix, Cacak 1999; Belgrade 2005, Grand-Prix, Cacak 2005, Grand-Prix, Belgrade 2006, Moscow 2006, Hiroshima 2006

Most important books published by RC: Take Your Drawings for a Walk - Small School of Animation (1986); Ogres and Bogies /with A. Peragras/ (1989); Common Life Anatomy (1994); Three Stories About Farty (1994); Centaur Letters (2000); Pangrams (2000), Home-Bred Metamorph Cultivating Manual (2002), Ten Lecturers By Rastko Ciric (2003), Miscellenia (Svastara, 2005)

ÈThe Rubber Soul ProjectÇ Ð documentary feature film directed by Dinko Tucakovic (Soul Flower, 2004) was dedicated to Rastko's musical project. CD with the music and DVD with the movie were published in the USA by the Rise Media Company in 2006.

Address: Oblakovska 8, 11000 BEOGRAD, Serbia
Tel: +381-11-265 32 43
Cell: +381-64-1880125
e-mail: rciric@eunet.yu
Web presentation   http://www.rastkociric.com