Ištvan Išt Huzjan graduated in 2005 from the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia in Italy. He registered his own book-publishing house 21st Century Books in 2006. In 2009 he finished the artist-in-residency program Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and finished several other residencies between 2010 and 2015, amongst them the National Art Studio in Changdong in Seoul and Apartment of the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia in New York. In 2010 he cofounded the artist collective Project Goleb in Amsterdam. In 2011 and 2014 he was twice nominated for the OHO award in Slovenia and in 2013 he was awarded the Fernand Baudin prijs in Belgium. In 2015 he was awarded the Grand Prize of the 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts - Over You You at MGLC in Ljubljana. His recent solo exhibitions include Lesorez / Woodcut at Galerija Gregor Podnar in Ljubljana, You & Me, We & You at Ricou Gallery in Brussels and From Here To There at ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana. His recent group exhibitions include the 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts - Over You You at MGLC in Ljubljana and South by Southeast at Osage Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2012 he joined the Simplon Express / The Return a group exhibition set in a train traveling from Zagreb to Paris, Taxi Avant Minuit a project for La Galerie Des Locataires involving a happening in a Taxi on FIAC in Paris. That year he also traveled from Seoul to Ljubljana by land using only public transport as an artistic performance. Since 2013 he is running an exhibition space in Brussels called Coffre Fort together with Gregoire Motte and Thibaut Espiau as the Artists Club.
