Margareta Lekić (b. 1982) graduated in 2007, and in 2020 earned her doctoral degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Sculpting. She has been the recipient of the City of Osijek scholarship, CEEPUS scholarship (Balaton, Hungary; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA), KulturKontakt Austria scholarship (International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria) and the postgraduate scholarship of the City of Zagreb. In 2010, she participated at the CEC ArtsLink artistic residence (Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA, USA) and in 2013 attended an artistic residence at Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France. As part of the Erasmus+ programme, in 2018 she spent time at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. She has exhibited at 25 solo and 57 group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Sweden, Germany, USA, Italy, China, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK, Canada, Serbia, Hungary and Poland).