Lucija Aleksić was born in Dubrovnik in 1940. She attended high school in Dubrovnik, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, with a BA (art history) and psychology. From 1965 to 1967 she was employed in the bookshop of the Publishing Institute of the Croatian Matrix, and from 1968 to 1969 was a volunteer in the Institute for the Conservation of Monuments of Culture in Dubrovnik.
She has devised many exhibitions such as “A hundred years of modern art in Dubrovnik”, “A retrospective exhibition of Đuro Pulitika” (1982), an exhibition of Marko Rašica (1986) and one of Vlaho Bukovac (1994). She was an associate on such big exhibition projects as the “Lights and colours of Dubrovnik”, “Mato Celestin Medović” “1000 years of sculpture among the Croats” and has written a monograph of Đuro Pulitika. From 1970 to 1984 she prepared and mounted in the field 17 exhibitions for elementary and secondary schools in the wider Dubrovnik areas. Twice she has been director of the institute, once from 1972 to 1973, and a second time during the Homeland War, in 1991 to 1993.
She has taken complete care of the Bukovac Gallery in Cavtat for a full 30 years. She is chairperson of the Dubrovnik association Baština/Heritage, the task of which is to advance and encourage folk creative work in the area of folk handicraft and traditional fine arts in the Dubrovačko-neretvanska County.
For her work and for her particular devotion to the conservation and rescue of the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik during the Homeland War she was decorated in 1996 with the Order of the Croatian Daystar with the figure of Marko Marulić. She has donated blood 25 times.

NB. Data taken from the questionnaire, material taken from the Personnel Archives of the MDC, and from an interview recorded on June 27, 2005.