Sandi Bulimbašić was born in Split in 1969, where she finished elementary school and classics-program secondary school. She graduated in Art History and English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1996. Her graduation thesis on Emanuel Vidović and symbolism was published in periodical Mogućnosti in 2000. In 2014 she received her PhD degree in Art History from the same University with the thesis entitled Medulić, the Association of Croatian Artists (1908-1919).

Until 1999 she worked as a professor of the English language at the TECOMA Foreign Language School in Zagreb. Since 12^th April 1999 she has been employed at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Conservation Department in Split, and in 2009 was appointed senior adviser – conservator for immovable heritage. As a conservator she works on research and protection of 19^th– and 20^th– century architecture in Split and she is the (co-)author of numerous conservation studies and reports. Several years ago, she was the head of the Conservation Department Gallery which was closed in 2010.

She is the author of numerous articles published in Croatian professional and scientific journals and other publications. She has participated in one international and two national scientific conferences.

She was a member of the editorial board of the professional journal Kvartal. Since 2013, she has been a member of the Artistic Council of thePhoto Club Split Gallery of Photography.

She is the author of numerous catalogue introductions for exhibitions of the works of Croatian contemporary artists and she has curated several photography exhibitions, including retrospective exhibition Ante Verzotti – photographs 1967-2003 (Gallery of Fine Arts in Split, 2004).

Fields of her scientific interest and research are modern and contemporary art, especially photography, history of artistic associations and their exhibitions, national identity in art and relationship between art and ideology/politics.