Jura Bedic was born in Croatia in 1980. He completed his studies at The Florence Academy of Art in 2002, and became a principle instructor first in the Intensive Drawing Program, then in the Painting Program. He has participated in group exhibitions in numerous galleries in the United States, as well as alumni exhibitions organized by the Academy in Germany and Florence, including “Realism Revisited” at the Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen. He is winner of the 2001 Art Renewal Center International Scholarship Competition, and his work is featured in an article in American Artist “Drawing” Magazine, 2003, ”Classical Approaches to the Teaching of Drawing.”