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Miljenko Horvat was born in 1935 in Varaždin, Croatia.
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He studied at Technical-architectural faculty of University of Zagreb, where Josip Vaništa was a professor.
Horvat began to paint from an early age, and during the study of architecture has become the youngest member of the avant-garde group with an international reputation, Gorgona. His work within the group includes various projects: Gorgona - Then and Now, Neo Dada: Gorgona | Absurd Freedom, Socialism and Modernity, Marginal Specificities: Avant-Garde Art of ex-Yugoslavia 1914 - 1989, Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art, Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art 1915 – 1989.
After graduating architecture, he left Zagreb in 1962 to work in Paris, and in 1966 he moved to Canada.
Horvat's works are in numerous public, corporate and museum collections: The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Canada Council Art Bank; Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke; Spencer Museum of Art; Collection of Marinko Sudac, Zagreb, etc.
Few years after retirement he returned to Zagreb where he died in 2012.
Miljenko Horvat has exhibited on over 150 exhibitions. He was active as a curator, designer and collector. He wrote and published poetry in English language. His drawings have been published in several poetry collections of a renown Canadian writer and poet Alexis Lefrançois.