Born on 25th October 1973 in Bjelovar.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and has been professionally pursuing animation since 2011, after a decade-long stint in creative comics and comic books for children. Irena also works in pedagogy, illustration, book editing and TV series.
The video Gamer Girl (2016), adapted from the graphics of a computer game, addresses
the difficulties of a woman* trying to break out of seemingly immovable normative, heterosexual role and gender attributions and expectations. In this, as well as in other animation and comic productions, Irena Jukić Pranjić deals with gender issues, stereotypes, and the position of women* in the context of former Yugoslavia.
