Martin Zbojan

A contemporary Slovak painter, printmaker and teacher. Born on 7 February 1960 in Michalovce; after the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Košice (1975 – 1979) he studied figural painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under professors Karel Souček and Radomír Kolář and printmaking under Ladislav Čepelák (graduating in 1986). Since 1991 he has taught at the University of Prešov, where he defended his doctorate in 2003; as an art historian he focuses on Košice modernism and the art of the 1960s.

He has more than twenty solo exhibitions to his name; in painting he combines the lessons of the old masters — chiaroscuro, symbolism, spatial composition — with elements of pop art and collage, and works in acrylic as well as oil. The works represented in our collection were part of the exhibition Contemporary Slovak Art in Brussels (4 – 27 May 2007).