Career
Since 1937, Omčikus has lived in Belgrade. After World World War II, he began painting at the Academy of Fine s, in class of professor Ivan Tabaković. After a six-month stay in Zadar, he returned to Belgrade where he joined The Group of Eleven, and his first solo exhibition, hosted in 1951.
Shortly, after in 1952, Petar Omčikus and Kossa Bokshan left from Yugoslavia and definitely moves to Paris.
Since 1965, they occasionally stay in Vela Luka on Korčula, where organized numerous international meetings of artists, philosophers and critics. He participated in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad.
Rise of the academic nature in the studio for the artists opened up new paths in which are free creativity will, in different ways, to remain during the whole of his creation. But the real turning point in his art was happened in Paris.
Meeting with the abstract art of the time definitely Omčikus directed towards free expression, a move that he is not looking for reality but for individual style.
Geometrized associative abstraction of the period but from the beginning of the seventh decade evolved into colorful gestural figuration, which has retained elements of his earlier term. In the later stages of the Omčikus thematisation painting on the portraits, drawings of Belgrade, fantastic realism, and sculpture. 1951 Gallery ULUS, Belgrade
1955 Galerie Arnaud, Paris
1958 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
1962 Galerie Formes Contemporaines, Lille
1965 Salon of Moderne Gallery, Belgrade
1972 Grand Palais, Paris
1974 Galleria "IlGrifo", Rome
1976 Galerie de Seine, Paris
1983 Galerie Plexus, Chexbres (Switzerland)
1985 Galerie des Platanes, Genève
1988 Galerie Plexus, Chexbres (Switzerland)
1989 Museum of contemporary art, retrospective eyhibition, Belgrade
1992 Maison de l"United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris
1994 Bibliothèque Universitaire, Nancy
1995 Galerie René Descartes: "Atelier Dedouvre", Paris
1996 Galerie Plexus: "Atelier Dedouvre", Chexbres (Switzerland)
1998 Gallery SANU, Belgrade.