Born in Sarajevo on December 7th, 1963, as the son of an international chess champion, Dejan discovered the intellectual art world at a very young age. By the time he was five-years-old, he had painted his first still-life series. After his graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, the artist moved to study in Italy, where he had received a grant from the prestigious “Studio Art Centers International” (SACI), in Florence.