Born in 1980, Dračić studied painting from 2000 to 2004 and received his MA in 2006 from the Academy of Fine arts in Zagreb, Croatia. He has exhibited in numerous solo and more than sixty group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Austria, Germany, Poland, Italy, Serbia and China). He received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2012 and 2019. He participated in the artist-in-residence programs Kulturkontakt Austria in Vienna in 2009 and One-Sided story in Leipzig in 2012. His paintings are in private collections in Croatia and abroad, as well as in the collections of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. He is an assistant professor (docent) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He works and lives in Zagreb, Croatia.

“I work in the technique of oil on canvas, and through the process of painting I create scenes of distorted, dreamlike reality, in which history, present, future and fiction mix. The space that appears in my paintings does not depict real places, on the contrary, by merging real and imaginary segments I emphasize the impression of a dreamlike atmosphere that draws the observer into intense, often strange spaces of some nameless presence. This is a space that exists between dreams and reality, and arises from the fragments of the world we live in. Ambivalence and vague foreboding are the key psychological moments that I want to emphasize, from which arise the awakenings of the deeply imprinted collective memory of the cyclical nature of time. These are scenes of a possible past and the contours of an uncertain future.”