Dragoš Kalajić (Belgrade, 1943-2005) was a Serbian painter whose hyperrealist works brought him international recognition in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also remembered as a philosopher, art critic, writer and nationalist political figure, but his work as a painter remains the core of his career.
He studied at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts before graduating in 1966 from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma with high honours. He then divided his time between Belgrade and Rome. Even as a student he exhibited in Rome, Milan, Brussels and Belgrade, and between 1964 and 2004 he organised eighteen solo shows. His exhibition "Image Restoration" at the Cultural Center gallery in Belgrade caused controversy within the Yugoslav art scene.
He also worked as a critic, helped create several exhibitions and appeared in television programmes about art and culture. In the 1980s he wrote for Pogledi, an early opposition magazine, and during Slobodan Milošević's rule he published a column in the pro-government weekly Duga. In 1996 he became a senator of Republika Srpska. His political views, largely modelled on Julius Evola, have been described as fascist and antisemitic. He died in Belgrade in 2005.