Since becoming an assistant professor in 1999, she has been teaching painting in the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Split. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including the Youth Biennale in Paris (1982) and the Venice Biennale (1986, 1995). Ivančić has also had two retrospective exhibitions: Paintings, at the Zuccato Gallery (Poreč, 2005) and Nina Ivančić, in the Klovićevi dvori Gallery (Zagreb, 2006). She has received many awards, of particular interest are the prestigious Binney and Smith Inc. Fine Art Achievement Award (New York, 1987) and the Josip Račić Award – Vjesnik newspaper award for fine arts (Zagreb, 2003).
