Irfan Hošić received his PhD from the Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. His research interests include art, fashion and design in contexts marked by crisis. He was the winner of the BIRN (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Belgrade) Journalism Award in 2012. Irfan Hošić is the curator of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) entitled The Garden of Pleasure by the Artist Mladen Miljanović. In the academic year 2013/2014, he was a lecturer at the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan (USA) and in 2018/2019 at the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University (USA). He was awarded a Basileus scholarship for a ten-month postdoctoral research stay at the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 2014, where he worked on the topic "Art and Terrorism". He was awarded a Weiser Fellowship to stay at the University of Michigan in September 2015, working on the project "Image of Crisis" and a Green Tech Fellowship for a research stay at the University of Paderborn (Germany) in 2017 for the project "Art and Fashion". During 2019/2020, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to stay at the College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University in Detroit (USA), comparing the cultural and artistic context of Sarajevo and Detroit. He is the founder of the Revizor Foundation (2016) and the initiator of the KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture in Bihać (2018). He is the author of the book Iz/van konteksta (Connectum, Sarajevo 2013) and the nomadic fanzine Revizor (2018/2019), as well as a number of exhibition publications, collections of works and other texts. Hošić is a teacher at the Textile Department of the Faculty of Technology of the University of Bihać, where he teaches Art History, Modern Art and Design, and Theory of Design and Form. He is engaged in art criticism and curatorial work.