Andrej Tisma was born in 1952 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
He has had solo exhibitions since 1972 (Novi Sad, Belgrade, New York, Milan, Seoul, Munich, Naples, San Francisco, London, Budapest, Tokyo, Bremen), and since 1969 has taken part in some 600 collective exhibitions in Yugoslavia and about 40 other countries.
He took part in the Ars Electronica festival, Linz, Austria.
A collection of his articles, essays and rubber-stamp works was published in San Francisco by the Stamp Art Gallery in 1996.
Under the pen-name Andrej Zivor, he has published prose and poetry since 1977 in Yugoslavia and abroad (USA, France).