Sandor Slajf was born in Sombor in 1951. He is painting from when he was 5 years old and so he held his first exhibition when he was in a kindergarten. He receives his first acknowledges for painting when still in elementary school. When he finished high school he enters Faculty of Technics as his father wanted; however, painting remains his biggest wish and obsession. He learns to paint on his own at his friend Viktor Škrabanj who is an academic painter from Bečej. With help from Viktor, painting becomes his only occupation and profession.

He moves from Bečej to Novi Sad in 1997.

He independently organized and displayed in more then 80 and participated in more then 200 collective displays; he is also a participant of numerous painting volonies in the country and abroad.

He has received several awards and acknowledges for his creations.

He is living from his art in Novi Sad.