[4] In 1980 his parents, under the pretense described as vacation travel, emigrated through Hungary and Yugoslavia to Austria, and Gric thenceforth lived in Western Europe.

They soon moved to Linz where Gric finished primary school and studied graphic design at the Höhere Technische Lehranstalt.

[4] In 1996, Gric presented his work about the connection of painting and computer graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

[5] Before his artistic career, he was influenced by science fiction illustrators Chris Moore, Peter Elson and by Star Wars movies.

However, his biggest influence was surrealistic paintings by his father, and artists like Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Samuel Bak, Alfred Kubin, Hans Ruedi Giger and later Zdzisław Beksiński, Odd Nerdrum and De Es Schwertberger.

[8] Gric declared about his art: I find it hard to explain what I’m painting, or why; actually, I don’t see any reason to analyse or justify my work.

[9][10] In 2010, he worked on the Concept Design for the project "At the Mountains of Madness" by director Guillermo del Toro.