Svatopluk Mikyta graduated of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, studied at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, and awarded an DAAD grant from 2001 to 2002 at the UDK Berlin. In 2008, he won the Oskár Čepan Award for young Slovak artist, in 2009 he took part in a ISCP residency in New York, in 2011 he won the Strabag Art Award. He leads the Drawing studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. His works are in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, the Bratislava City Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, MUDAM Luxemburg and others institutions and private collections.
