Awards
2020
- Best Creativity Prize (We are Pigs), 1st Oriental Kids Picture Book Award, Nanjing/Suzhou, China
- Special Merit at Eight Croatian Biennale of Illustration, Zagreb, Croatia
- Robbie the Lion/Lvíček Bertík was in the Czech Republic among best children books in the year 2019
2019
- Little Hakka Picture Book Competition, Nomination (for Stan the Elephant), Shenzhen, China, 2019
- Little Hakka Picture Book Competition, Nomination (for No, I won’t!, unpublished), Shenzhen, China, 2019
- 2019 LAUREATES of the Russian Book Illustration Contest “Image of the Book ” (for STAN THE ELEPHANT), Moscow International Book Fair the winners of the 12th edition of “Image of the Book“, Moskva, Rusija 2019
- Glazer Credential for distinctive production in the sphere of culture, Maribor 2019
- 3×3 Professional Show No.16, Merit, priznanje za naslovnico (za knjigo Ne, ne bom!), New York 2019
- 3×3 Picture book Show No.16, Honorable mention, častna omemba (za knjigo Ne, ne bom!), New York 2019
2018
- Best of the Best (Stan the Elephant), Hiii Illustration 2017, China 2018
- Merit at the 3x3 Picture Book Show No. 15 (Robbie the Lion), New York, USA 2018
2017
- Honorary Mention Award for Book Illustration Category (Stan the Elephant), Global Illustration Award, Frankfurt, Germany
- The puppet play The Naughty Pigs is among Golden Stick Festival, 17th Festival of Performing Arts for Children and Young People, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2017
- Merit at the 3x3 Picture Book Show No. 14 (Franky the Anteater), New York 2017
- Honorable mention, 3x3 Picture book Show No. 14 (Friends), New York 2017
- Best Books in Jiangsu Province (The Naughty Pigs), China 2017
- Special prize for innovative illustration approach (Three Kittens and a Dragon), The 6th Book Illustration Festival BookILL Fest, Novi Sad, Serbia 2017
2016
- Golden medals (Stan The Elephant; Three Kittens and a Dragon), 3×3 Picture book Show No. 13, New York, USA 2016
- Best of the Best (The Naughty Pigs), Hiii Illustration 2015, China 2016
- The honorable mention (The Magic Shell), Hiii Illustration 2015, China 2016
- Special prize for innovative illustration approach (The Naughty Pigs), The 5th Book Illustration Festival BookILL Fest, Novi Sad, Serbia 2016
2015
- The Best Designed Slovenian Book Award / Books for Children and Young Adults (The Naughty Pigs), Slovenia 2015
- Merit at the 3x3 Picture Book Show No. 12 (The Naughty Pigs), New York, USA 2015
2014
- COW Illustration 2014, TOP 10 Illustrators, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrain
2006 -2004
- top-five nomination for ‘Plecnik award’, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2006
- Grand Prix at the International Architectural competition ‘Leonardo’, for young architects of II. region UIA for the best realisation, Minsk, Belarus 2005
- 1. prize at the International Architectural competition ‘Leonardo’ for young architects of II. region UIA in category of public buildings, Minsk, Belarus 2005
- several award winning stamps designed for Post of Slovenia
Selected exhibitions & projects
2020
- Solo exhibition, Negova Castle, Negova, Slovenia, 2020
- Hiii Illustration exhibition, Nanjing, China, 2020
- 8th Croatian Biennial of Illustration, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 2020
- Solo exhibition, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020
2019
- Solo exhibition, Slovenia Center, Prague, Czech Republic, December 2019–February 2020
- BIB – bienale ilustracij Bratislava, Slovaška 2019
- Razstava ilustracij v Gradski knjižnici Juraj Šižgorić, Šibenik, Hrvaška 2019
2018
- Stitchings (solo exhibition), curator Mojca Štuhec, UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia 2018
- Sodelovanje na razstavi festivala festival ilustracije knjige »BookILL Fest«, Novi Sad 2018
2017
- 49th Golden Pen of Belgrade (participation in the exhibition), Serbia 2017
- The Thread Unraveled, invitational, curator Samina Islam, VM Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 2017
- Exhibition of excellence picture books, invitational, International Cultural Industry, Shenzhen, China 2017
- BIB, Bienniale of Illustrations Bratislava, Slovakia 2017
- Sodelovanje na razstavi festivala ilustracije knjige »BookILL Fest«, Novi Sad 2017
2016
- The puppet play The Naughty Pigs (Pobalinska pujsa), Puppet Theatre Maribor 2016
- Children’s project ‘Chickens’ (The Naughty Pigs), Puppet Theatre Maribor 2016
- Hiii Illustration exhibition (winning works), Hangzhou City, China 2016
- Exhibition 'Ideas on Paper', Beijing Jingren Cultural Development Corp, (the works in the exhibition were winning works from previous years’ Hiii Typography and Hiii Illustration), Beijing, China 2016
- 12th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration (participation in the exhibition), Ljubljana, Slovenia 2016
- Solo exhibition at Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China, 2016
- Croatian Biennial of Illustration, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia 2016
- Exhibition at The 5th Book Illustration Festival 'BookILL Fest' Novi Sad, Serbia 2016
- Exhibition of illustrations from the book The Naughty Pigs, Puppet Theatre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia 2016
2015
- BIB, Bienniale of Illustrations Bratislava, Slovakia 2015
- 48th Golden Pen of Belgrade (participation in the exhibition), Serbia 2015
- Exhibition in Hiša Layer (exhibition of 5 Slovenian Illustrators), Kranj, Slovenia 2015
2014
- COW International Design Festival (participation in the exhibition), Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine 2014
- 11ti Slovenski bienale ilustracije, Galerija Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana 2014
2011-2013
- 47th Golden Pen of Belgrade (participation in the exhibition), Belgrade Serbia 2013
- KUD France Prešeren (solo exhibition), Trnfest, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012
- 10th Slovenian Bienniale of Illustration (participation in the exhibition), Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012
- The 46th Golden Pen of Belgrade (participation in the exhibition), Serbia 2011
- House of the architecture (solo exhibition), Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011