Slobodan Jelesijevic was born in Gornji Milanovac in 1951. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1977.

Slobodan Jelesijevic has had 6 individual exhibitions and has taken part in over 100 group exhibitions at home and abroad.

He has received several awards and prizes in the field of fine and applied arts.

Slobodan Jelesijevic is a member of ULUPUDS (The Association of Serbian Artists and Designers).

He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Nis.

Slobodan Jelesijevic’s (from a small city near Kragujevac named Gornji Milanovac) drawings are a product of lengthy, tenacious, minute elaborations of a multitude of figures which intertwine into infinity. Mihailo Kandic (Mihailo Kandić) Kragujevac, May 2006