Karafilovski Ivan was born in Pancevo, Serbia. He began to paint for two decades. He works exclusively in oil on canvas in the broadest thematic framework, the manner of hyperrealism and magical realism. He exhibits his paintings at collective exhibitions in Moscow, London and Paris and has eight solo exhibitions behind him.

Organizer and participant in international art colonies in the country and abroad.

He has exhibited at the prestigious Grand Palais in Paris at the ART en CAPITAL