Studin was born in 1895 in Kaštel Novi village in a family of farmers,[1] not to far away from Split.
He settled in Dalmatia where he made a lot of wooden sculptures for the churches of that area.
From 1921 to 1923 he traveled to Berlin, Prague, London and Rome where he worked on various monuments in a collaboration with Antoine Bourdelle.
In 1929 he married Ivan Meštrović's sister and ten years later was appointed as a professor at the Academy of Art in Belgrade.
Later on, he held the same position at the Academy of Art in Zagreb and then died in Split in 1960.