Grega Mastnak was born in Ljubljana in Slovenia on 9 June1969. In 1990 he began to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was awarded the Prešern Prize for Students in 1994. After spending some time at FAMU in Prague and studying at the Department of animated film, he returned in Slovenia and graduated in 1995, in painting class of professor Emerik Bernard. In 1988 he completed his post - graduate studies in the class of professor Gustav Gnamuš. He visited New York in 1999. There he spent three weeks and got to know the city art studios. At the same year he published a comic album "Chease after lost rollerskate" in Velenje.
Besides painting Grega Mastnak also strongly devotes himself to illustration, strip and animated films. He works as a free lance artist in Ljubljana.

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