Ľubo Stacho was born in 1953 in Handlová, Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (1976) and the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague (prof. Ján Šmok 1984). In 1990 he introduced the photography study program into the Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts and Design curriculum and currently holds a position of the Head of the Studio of Photography and Intermedia Overlaps at the Department of Photography. In 1995, he was qualified as associate professor at FAMU, appointed as a full professor in 2010. He is the winner of several awards, including the Tokyo International Photobiennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (1995), 1st Prize at the UNESCO World Heritage Fund Contest (1993). He has held over 67 solo exhibitions so far, and participated in more than 278 collective exhibitions e. g. Pittsburgh Mattress Factory 1995, Biennale Tokyo 1995, FotoFest Houston 1996, Photogallery Vienna 1997, Ljubljana 1998, Tel Aviv 2000, GMB Bratislava 2007, Nitrianska galéria v Nitre 2013.

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