Srđan Lončar (b. Rijeka, Croatia) is a New Orleans–based sculptor, photographer, and educator whose practice challenges perceptions of value, materiality, and representation. After earning his MFA from the University of New Orleans, Lončar developed a signature technique combining 3D carving with photographic montage to construct hyper-real, yet subtly distorted, visual simulacra.
Central to Lončar’s work is the tension between the physical object and its virtual image. He carves organic, domestic, and political forms out of materials like Styrofoam, then coats their surfaces in hundreds of close-up photographic fragments. The resulting sculptures—ranging from burning vehicles and stacks of paper currency to everyday tools and disaster models—transform mundane subjects into compelling commentaries on consumerism, fragility, and repair.
Lončar’s work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums across the United States, including Prospect.1, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Arthur Roger Gallery. A vital figure in the Gulf Coast art community, Lončar is a co-founding member of the artist-run Good Children Gallery in New Orleans’ St. Claude Arts District and serves as the director of the sculpture department at Tulane University.