In her art practice, Ines Matijević Cakić explores the issues of identity, subjectivity and cultural heritage. Her most recent works focus on the subjectivity of time, motherhood and private space. The figurative content of her art, most often in the form of drawings and prints, is a reflection and interpretation of personal experience in the encounter with psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy, and the “other”.

Ines Matijević Cakić was born on January 17, 1982. She graduated from High School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb in 2000, after which she enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, with printmaking as her major. She graduated in 2005 under professor Ante Kuduz. Matijević Cakić received her doctoral degree in painting from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 2016, having studied under professor Ante Rašić and associate professor Lena Šimić. As a CEEPUS grant winner in 2003, she spent one semester at the Indiana University in Pennsylvania (IUP, Indiana, PA, USA). From 2006 to 2011 she was a teaching assistant at the Osijek Faculty of Teacher Education, and since 2011 she has been working at the Osijek Academy of Arts and Culture, where she holds printmaking and drawing courses at the undergraduate study program of Fine Arts, in the position of associate professor. Since 2006, she has been working as an external associate at the Osijek Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, teaching drawing at the undergraduate study of Architecture and Urban Planning. Matijević Cakić is a member of the council of the Doctoral School of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she teaches at the postgraduate interdisciplinary study program Culture and Art.

Matijević Cakić has presented her work at thirteen solo and more than a hundred group exhibitions, both in Croatia and abroad, to mention a few: House Without Foundation, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (2022); Martixial Stories, Museum of Fine Arts Osijek and PM Gallery in Zagreb (2014) (solo exhibitions); and 54th Zagreb Salon, HDLU, Zagreb (2019); Collection for the Future / Acquisitions 2009–2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2019); HTnagrada, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2017); Exporting Zagreb, National Museum Gdansk, Poland (2016); T-HTnagrada@msu.hr, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2010); Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2009); 28th International Printmaking Biennale, Tivoli Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2009) (group exhibitions).
The artworks of Ines Matijević Cakić are in the following museum holdings and collections: The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, the Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Lauba Collection in Zagreb and the Cerin Antonić Collection in Zagreb.

She received many recognitions for her art, among others: an award of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka; an award at the 54th Zagreb Salon, for the work Still Life (2019); an award of the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb; the third prize at the Hrvatski Telekom Awards, for the work Portrait with Hair (2017); an award of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka of the 5th Croatian Printmaking Triennial; for the work 2nd Anamorphosis (2009); Grand Prix for the work Time Interventions, at the 21st Slavonian Biennale (2008); Grand Prix for the work Anamorphosis, Erste & Steiermarkische Bank Award (2008); Special Award for the work Music Boxes, 3rd International Biennale of Experimental Printmaking, the Brancovan Palaces, Bucharest, Romania (2008); Ex Aequo Award for the work Suzana with Old Men, 20th Slavonian Biennale, Osijek (2006). In 2007, Ines Matijević Cakić was a finalist of the Radoslav Putar Award in Zagreb.