Dejv Mutnjakovic is a Canadian illustrator, writer, and educator whose work explores themes of healing, trauma, environmental consciousness, and spiritual transformation. Born on the border between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, he is the son of a refugee from Eastern Europe and an Irish poet. This origin shaped his deeply imaginative and cross-cultural vision.

At age 13, Dejv survived a life-altering chronic illness that reshaped his sense of purpose and sent him on a global journey of self-discovery. From Europe to Tasmania and eventually back to Montreal, he began creating a vast body of work including more than 3,000 drawings, stories, and visual experiments that document a personal and mystical process of recovery and expression.

Dejv’s illustrations are rooted in empathy, storytelling, and wonder. In schools, he uses art and narrative to help students unpack contemporary issues such as mental health, identity, and environmental justice. He focuses particularly on empowering neurodivergent learners and children overcoming medical challenges. His exhibitions across Canada and Europe address subjects often left in the shadows, including social isolation, trauma, and emotional survival, offering both tenderness and clarity.

With a BFA in Community Art Education and Film Animation from Concordia University, Dejv brings a unique blend of curriculum development and visual storytelling. His artistic process begins in what he calls "the sacred space of emptiness," where trauma and love meet, and where the act of creation becomes a pathway to healing.

He is currently living and creating in Port Moody, British Columbia.

Exhibits  THEATRE

2018OUF! Festival Off Casteliers - Festival des arts de la marionnettes

ART AND ANIMATION Group Exhibitions 

2019 - Exposition HISTOIRE EN 5 SAISONS à la Galerie de la petite gare de Val-David, QC

2019 - +4 Exhibition Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery

2018 - ‘Prosthetic Reality' exhibit MOD at the University of South Australia
MOD. is Australia's leading future-focused museum

Pause Festival, Melbourne, AUS, 2017

FOST (Future of Story Telling), New York, USA, 2017

Worlds Fair USA, 2017

Courant 3d-film fest, Angouleme France, 2017

The Galleries Exhibition, Sydney Australia, 2017

My Casa Gallery, Vietnam, 2017

Noosa Gallery, Queensland Australia, 2017

House of VR, Toronto, Canada, 2017

Rise Festival, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2017

Augmented World Expo, Munich, Germany, 2017

Augmented World Expo, USA 2018 

VRLA Expo LA, May 2018

Activate Perth, Western Australia, 2018

EyeJack in The Pilbara, Western Australia, 2018

Solo Exhibits

2024 - Disability Rocks, Outsider and Others, East Vancouver, BC

2024 - Wildnessly Inked, Grit Studio, Port Moody, BC

2019 Alphonse-Desjardins Room, Mont-Tremblant, QC

2017 arteSPACE Exhibition, Concordia University, Montreal, QC

2016 "Gutted" Exhibtion, Galerie Carrots & Dates, Windsor, On

2016 "When There is Nothing Left to Burn" Exhibition, Galerie Mile-End, Montreal, QC

2016 Galerie POPOP - Circa, Montreal, QC

Publications & Press

2018 Outside In, United Kingdom
https://outsideinpallant.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/building-a-bridge-between-science-and-art/

2016 Prosthetic Reality, An Augmented Reality Art Book, Melbourne Australia
https://eyejackapp.com/products/prosthetic-reality-book

The Windsor Star, Published on: December 18, 2016
http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/art-exhibit-at-carrots-n-dates

CBC Windsor,
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/art-exhibit-bowel-disease-1.3903627