Ondrej Zimka is an academic painter who was born on November 29, 1937 in Turzovka in Kysuce. In 1964 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the field of graphics. He is one of the founders of the Kysuce Gallery and lives and creates alternately in Bratislava and Turzovka.
His talent is manifested in several fields of fine arts. He devotes himself to free chamber and monumental painting on wood, illustration, magazine and poster creation, caricature, animated film and artprotis. In total, he realized 11 animated films and illustrated more than 100 books. He has organized more than 200 exhibitions at home and abroad and has won several prestigious awards for his illustrative work.