BIOGRAPHY

Stanislav was born in 1972 in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He studied at The Graphic School of Bratislava, 1986 – 1991, working as a printing press operator and studying the history of printing, graphic design, book-making, and typesetting. As the concurrent revolution in then-Czechoslovakia progressed, Grezdo was exposed to a spectrum of printed propaganda and protest through his work at the printing press, including the fliers secretly printed for protests. Some years after the revolution, Grezdo moved to the U.S., carrying with him the themes of Soviet propaganda, nationalism, and revolution that surrounded his life in Czechoslovakia. Those themes and the related symbols emerged in his work as the foundation of ‘a new personal state’, with it’s own esthetic, symbolism and political party.


Grezdo is curently living in Chicago and from 2007 to present he is curator at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago. He had numerous exhibitions of his paintings, prints, and assemblages throughout the U.S. and Europe.