Todor Stevanović was born in 1937 in Zalužje. He completed his studies in painting in 1963 under Đorđe Andrejević Kun and earned his Master's degree in 1967 under Nedeljko Gvozdenović at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. In addition to painting, he is involved in drawing, printmaking, film, ceramics, mosaics, alternative media, art criticism, art theory, philosophy, and literature. He is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) and the Association of Writers of Serbia (UKS). He has been exhibiting solo since 1956 and has participated in art exhibitions both in the country and abroad. He represented Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennale in 1999. His works are housed and exhibited in the National Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of the City of Belgrade, as well as in many museum-gallery institutions in the former Yugoslavia, and in England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, the Canary Islands, Australia, South America, the United States, Canada, Austria, Sweden, Russia, and more. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Lada Association Award in 2012. He was nominated for the KYOTO Prize in 2010 in the field of art and philosophy. He has been a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) since 2003 and a full member since 2012.