Peter Uchnár

Peter Uchnár was born in 1970 in Sobrance, Slovakia. After completing his studies at the High School of Applied Arts in Košice, he studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (prof. Dušan Kállay). From 1999 to 2002 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He currently lives and works in Pezinok not far from Bratislava, where he is engaged in printmaking, painting and book illustration.

He has won many awards such as the Golden Apple at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava ´99 for the book by Jonathan Swift, “Gulliverove cesty 1” (Gulliver's Travels 1), and the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava Children’s Jury Award in 2009. He has repeatedly won awards at ‘The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia’ Competition (1998, 2004, 2009, 2011). In the year 2010 he was nominated as candidate for the HansChristian Andersen Award.