Miro Švolík was born in 1960 in Zlaté Moravce (Slovakia), he studied the applied photography at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Bratislava. In 1987 Švolík took a degree at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague. He has been the free-lance art photographer since 1988, in years 2007–2010 he worked as curator in Solnice and Galerie Basilika in České Budějovice. Miro Švolík is the head of Creative Photography Studio at Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava since 2009.