Matko Vekić (born 1970 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a contemporary Croatian artist working in the medium of painting.
[1][2] Vekić uses diverse everyday motifs (cars, a rat and a goldfish, insects, traffic interchanges and bridges, relays and transmission lines, women terrorists and body builders, football players and models) to problematise and address the irony the state of contemporary society.
He graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1995, in the class of Professor Đuro Seder.
[6] Together with Nikola Koydl [hr] and Zoltan Novak, he was the Croatian representative at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
[1] For his artistic work he has received over a dozen awards and recognitions, including the annual Filip Trade Award (Zagreb, 2003) and the annual Croatian Association of Artists for Young Painters (Zagreb, 2002).