Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić was born in Zagreb in 1981. She graduated in Art History and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2005. She received her PhD degree in Art History from the same University in 2012 with the thesis entitled Sergije Glumac − život i djelo (The Life and Oeuvre of Sergije Glumac).

Since 2006 she has worked at the Department of Art History as a member of a Chair of Modern Art and Visual Communication and a research assistant on the scientific projects Croatian art of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries in European Context (2006) and Croatian Art from Classicism to Postmodernism (from 2007, leader: Z. Maković) with the research field focused on graphic art, graphic design and history of exhibitions in the 20^th century. In 2010-2011 she participated in a bilateral project Croatian and Serbian Artistic Connections in the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th Centuries (leaders: Z. Maković and L. Merenik). Since 2013 she has participated as an associate researcher in the project Parisian Art Scene and Croatian Modern Art (leader: Lj. Kolešnik, Institute of Art History, Zagreb) conducting research on interwar French-Croatian links manifested in painting and graphic design. She has also participated (since 2013) in an international project Bauhaus − Networking Ideas and Practice (leader: V. Meštrić, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb) where she focuses her research on the reception of Bauhaus in Croatian periodicals and the influence of the school on Croatian stage and graphic design.

Since 2007 she teaches compulsory (Modern and Contemporary Art, Art since 1900) and numerous elective courses in BA and MA programmes at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2013 she was elected senior research assistant.

During her studies she was awarded scholarships by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports and the City of Zagreb. In 2003 she was elected for the internship programme at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and in 2012 received a scholarship by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA, Paris) for a short-term research stay in Paris.

She has published articles in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon and Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon and is an associate researcher of The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexycography. She participated in numerous scientific conferences and held many public lectures. She is the author of the exhibitions Sergije Glumac (2005), Expressionism in Croatian Caricature (2011),Expressionism in Croatian Print and Contemporary Croatian Graphic Art Scene / Questioning the Medium (2013). She co-curated the exhibition Expressionism in Croatian Art (2011) and participated in the organisation of the exhibitions Postsculpture (2005), Avant-garde tendencies in Croatian Art (2007), Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem – Sources of European Civilisation (2009) and others.

Her fields of professional interest include modern and contemporary art, particularly graphic arts, graphic design, stage design and history of exhibitions.