Veličković gained public attention in 1967 with an exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon in Paris, which established him as one of the leading artists of the Narrative Figuration art movement.

In 1983 he was elected professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and taught there until 2000.

[citation needed] Since 7 December 2005 he was a member of Académie des Beaux-Arts, section I, seat number 7.

In 2017 he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

[2] Veličković had many solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and North America.