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He graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (1984) with a degree in artistic photography. He habilitated as docent in the field of study 2.2.1 Fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (2011). Presently, he is a head of the Studio of Communication in the Medium of Photography at the Department of Art Communication at the Faculty of Mass Media Communication of the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. He has exhibited his works individually or as a part of a collective in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, England, Sweden, Finland, Greece, France, Poland, Russia, Japan, USA.
His photographs are represented in several private and public collections: Museum of Applied Arts, Prague, Czech Republic; FMK Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; The Museum of Instant Images, Tilburg, Holland; Spiša Artists’ Gallery, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovak Republic; Museum and Cultural Center of South Zemplín, Trebišov, Slovak Republic; Ernest Zmeták Art Gallery, Nové Zámky, Slovak Republic; Library of the University of Trnava. Trnava University, Trnava, Slovak Republic; Good Will Committee, Olga Havlova Foundation, Prague, 1991, Czech Republic; Museum of Photography, Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Nova Photo Gallery, J. Bocatia Public Library, Hlavná 48., Košice, Slovak Republic; Murray Forbes Foundation, The Navigator Foundation, Massachusetts, USA; Toronto/London based Archive of Modern Conflict: Collection of photography during socialism in Central Europe – The Czech, Hungarian, Slovak and Polish authors and photographs; The Clarence Ward Art Library at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, USA.
His work is published in monographs: Václav Macek – Jozef Sedlák, Osveta Martin (1996); Jozef Sedlák – Carnival, Fotofo Bratislava (1999); Jozef Sedlák – God’s Community, Fotofo Bratislava (2000); Cardinal Korec Still with Us, Lúč (2006); Te Deum Laudamus, Lúč (2015); Live Photograph Twice – Jozef Sedlák, VŠVU Bratislava (2018); In the Confinement of Images, Photon / Fotofo / Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, 2021.
He is an author and editor of publications and grants: Photography as a Program of Communication, FMK UCM Trnava (KEGA 2011); Inner Worlds (Pictorial report, village of Hybe), FMK UCM Trnava (2014); Archaeology of Time (Brehov/Rad), Minoritas, Jozef Sedlák (2016); Where Man and Water Stems, FMK UCM Trnava (2018); Damnatio memoriae (Condemnation of Memory), Jozef Sedlák, Neumahr Bratislava (2019); Association of amateur photographers YMCA and Foto-group KSTL Bratislava, Fotofo / Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, 2021; Petrik Béla, priest, photographer, chronicler, Fo Art /Fotofo Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, 2023; Photomontage, FMK UCM in Trnava, 2024.
Authors work is involved in summarizing collective publications: The History of European Photography 1970-2000, Central European House of Photography (2016), (Un)visible to the Eyes, Spiritual and Religious Aspects in Contemporary Art, Alena Piatrová, Daniela Čarná, Trnava University (2010), Eighties: Postmodernism in Slovak Art, SNG Bratislava (2009), Self-Portrait in Slovak Visual Art of the 2Oth Century, Zora Rusinová, Veda, The Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (2009), Lost Time? Slovakia 1969-1989 in Documentary Photography, Petra Hanáková, Aurel Hrabušický, SNG Bratislava (2007), Bratislava by the Back Door 1918-2005, Fotofo Bratislava (2005), Czech and Slovak Photography of the 1980s and 1990s, Helena Rišlínová, Lucia Lendelová, Tomáš Pospěch, Olomouc Museum (2002), Family Album. SK, Slovart (2002), Slovak Photography 1925-2000, Modernism, Postmodernism, Post-Photography, SNG Bratislava (2001), History of Slovak Fine Arts – 20th Century, Zora Rusinová, SNG Bratislava (2000), Dictionary of International and Slovak Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century, Jana Geržová, Profil, Bratislava (1999), Slovak Imaginative Photography, Fotofo Bratislava (1995), History of Slovak Photography, Ľudovít Hlaváč, Osveta Martin (1989).
He has received numerous awards for his artwork: Award at III. Biennale of Photography, Cheb (1988), plaque and Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary at international festival Art to Days in Budapest (1990); Winner of national round of international contest of documentary photography Fuji Film Euro Press Photo Awards in the category “Life” (1997, 1998); The Slovak Union of Visual Arts Award at the Biennale of Free Arts (2010); For professional activities and membership in district, regional, and nationwide commissions of the AMFO Slovakia competition, Director General of the Cultural Centre awarded him the “Honour of the National Cultural Centre” for lifetime contributions to the organization of AMFO competitions; He received Fra Angelico Award in the visual arts section (2019) by the ECS Council for Art; Honorable mention of the Slovak Art Union at the Biennale of Free Visual Arts festival (2024).
