Painter Aleksandar Cvetković was born in 1947 in Aleksinac. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade at the department of painting, as well as postgraduate studies in 1975. He organized sixty independent exhibitions and participated in several art manifestations. He is the winner of a number of awards in the field of painting and drawing. Among other things, he is the recipient of the prize for painting at the 18th October Salon in Belgrade (1977), the Golden Palette Award for Painting (1985), the prize for painting at the 20th October Salon (1988), the Politics Award from the Vladislav Ribnikar Fund for fine arts (1990). He lives and works in Belgrade and in the village of Šumarak, Deliblatska Peščara.