Milica Rakonjac was born in 1970 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated in 1997, and got her Master’s degree in 2000 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, at the painting department in the class of Professor Momčilo Antonović;

Since 2002, she has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS);

In the field of applied arts, she realised art equipment and the design of ninety-seven editions in cooperation with Belgrade publishing houses: Rad, Nolit, CLIO, Fedon, and the Institute for Textbooks;

Awards for series of drawings: the October Award of the City of Belgrade and the Petar and Vera Lubarda Award, awarded by the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade;

From 2000 to 2024, she was actively engaged in pedagogical work at all levels of art education. In 2018, she received the Award for long-term improvement of art education, awarded by the Association of Art Teachers of Serbia and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia.

Exhibited at fifteen independent and forty-three collective exhibitions;

She is currently in the status of an independent artist.

1997 Hired as an associate of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Department of Pre-school and Primary School Education, work of the journal Teaching and Education Coordinators Dr. Mirjana Markovic and Dr. Zdravko Milinkovic

1999-2001 Hired as the head of graphic studio and as an art editor in Publishing house Rad in Belgrade

2001 Hired as a teacher of drawing and painting at the School of Secondary Education School Crafts – Tehnoart in Belgrade

2002   Became member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia)

2003 Engaged as a consultant-trainer for specialist courses at the University of Art in Belgrade, field of aesthetics ;course facilitator Dr. Divna Vuksanović

2003 Created complete scenography for dance performance of Assemble Kolo, directed by Vladimir Lazic, Great scene Sava Center, Belgrade

2004  Program trainer and implementer of an accredited seminar for primary school teachers in the Republic of Serbia; module content: “Multimedia Approach to Teaching”; organizer: Personal System Agency for Information Engineering; coordinator: Professor Dragan Marinčić

2005. Hired as a professor in the art workshop and art editor of publications at the Humanitarian organizations Nasa Serbia in Belgrade
2005. Hired as an art editor in a Publishing house FEDON in Belgrade

2008 – 2010  Hired as a lecturer in drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting at Karlovci

2016–2023  Employed as an art teacher at the Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium “Mihailo Petrović Alas”, New Belgrade

2017 Engaged as editor of the textbook “Trag – Visual Arts for the Fifth Grade of Primary School”; authors: Dr. Zdravko Milinković and Branka Mandić; publisher: Gerundijum, Belgrade

2018  Engaged as an expert contributor and lecturer within the project activity “Development of specialized teacher training programs for outcome-based instruction in Visual Arts (Gymnasium level),” Institute for the Improvement of Education, Belgrade

• Engaged as trainer for a course for mentors within the project “Teacher Training for the Implementation of New Outcome-Based Curricula,” Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Belgrade
• Engaged as editor and reviewer of the textbook “With a Smile – Visual Arts for the Sixth Grade of Primary School”; author: Branka Mandić; publisher: Gerundijum, Belgrade

2019  Engaged as a member of the working group for the preparation of the “Proposal for a New Curriculum and Teaching Plan for General Secondary Education and the Curriculum for the Second Grade of the compulsory subject Visual Arts”; Institute for the Improvement of Education, Belgrade

• Engaged as a member of the working group for the preparation of the “Proposal for a New Curriculum and Teaching Plan for General Secondary Education and the Curriculum for the Second Grade of the elective programs: Art and Design”; Institute for the Improvement of Education, Belgrade
• Engaged as reviewer and visual editor of the textbook “One Step Further – Visual Arts for the Seventh Grade of Primary School”; author: Branka Mandić; publisher: Gerundijum, Belgrade.

In the field of applied arts, she realised art equipment and the design of ninety-seven editions in cooperation with Belgrade publishing houses: Rad, Nolit, CLIO and Fedon.

Since 2023, she has been in the status of an independent artist.