Gašper Jemec was born on 25th of October 1975 in Kranj, Republic of Slovenia, former SFR Yugoslavia. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where he studied painting and new medias both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student with professors Janez Bernik (1994-1996), Gustav Gnamuš (1996-1998), Bojan Gorenec (1998-2000) and Srečo Dragan (2000-2002).
Jemec also did graduate work in painting at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in America with professor Vaughn Clay in 1999. As a Herder scholarship winner of Alfred Toepfer Stiftung FVS from Hamburg, he further trained in sculpture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with professor Gerda Fassel (2001-2002).
Gašper Jemec' work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows in a variety of international institutions, art fairs, art festivals, museums and galleries including Art Paris, Art Madrid, Art Moscow, European Central Bank in Frankfurt and Venice Biennale. His artworks are included in numerous permanent art collections, both private and public such as of European Parliament in Espace Léopold, Brussels and also of European Commission in Palais Berlaymont, Brussels.
Gašper has resided and worked in Indiana, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Hamburg, Sakaide, Valencia, Moscow, Normandy, Paris, Tasmania, Barcelona, Galway and London. In his work, he focuses mainly on painting, sculpture and site-specific installation.
Jemec works as an independent artist.
Ph. Mitja Božič
