Tomaž Gorjup, painter and printmaker, born in Ljubljana on 9th of April 1950; studies: Graduaded from Accademie of Fine Arts, Ljubljana (1974), where he postgraduaded in painting (1976). He has participated in numerous collective (about 300) and personal exhibitions (about 80) home and abroad. Job: professor of drawing and painting at Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana.

/Some/ International exhibitions:
1980 - Cagnes sur mer, 16th Festival international de la peinture
1981 – Graz, Neue Galerie – 16th Internationale Malerwochen
1981/82 - Udine, Intergraf
!987 – Bari, Carrara - Expo - Arte
1993 - Ljubljana, 20th International Biennale of Graphic Art
!988 – Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum – Museum Collection
1995 - Varna, 8th International Biennale of Graphic Art
1998 – Gornji Milanovac, 6th International Biennal of Miniature Arts
1998, 1999, 2006, 2008, 2009 – Barcelona, Cadaqes – 18th, 19th, 26th, 28th, 29th
mini print International
2008 – Insights, European Central Bank, Frankfurt.

(Some) personal exhibitions :
1982 – Graz, Graz, - Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum – Tomaž Gorjup (paintings 1981-82),
1999 – Ljubljana, National Museum of Contemporary history – Tomaž Gorjup /1975 – 1999/, retrospective
2007 - Celje, Colour spaces / Colour spaces (paintings 1999-2007), Gallery of Contemporary Art
2007 – Belgrade, Colour spaces / Eppur si muove (paintings 2005 –2007), Gallery of Faculty of Fine Arts
2010 – Sevnica, Time traces (paintings 2009-2010), Gallery in Castle Sevnica

Awards:
national awards for painting (4),
1981 - Ljubljana, Župančič preize for painting

(Some of) musseum collections:
Ljubljana, Gallery of modern art, Municipal gallery, International graphyc art centre
Skopje, Contemporary art museum
Rijeka, Museum of modern art
Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum
Celje, Gallery of Contemporary Art
etc.