Ilir Kaso was born in 1982, in Përmet. He graduated in 2005 from the Academy of Arts in Tirana and since then, he has been guest professor at the Faculty of Figurative Arts. He won the special award for the experimentation in graphic style “Balkanima”, in 2005. In 2007 he won the “AMC” award as the best Albanian contemporary artists. He is also winner of public’s choice award “TIFF”, in 2009. In 2010 he received the award for the best image in “Antifest ROZAFA”. Whereas in 2012 he received the best Albanian animated movie award, by the Festival of the Albanian Film.

Ilir Kaso is the author of three personal exhibitions:  “Ëndërrimtarë të realitetit” (Dreamers of Reality); FAB 2012; “Oxymoron”, Lokal-int, Biel-Bienne, 2012; “I am the river”, Beton 7 (Athens) – Miza (Tirana), 2013. One of his works is part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Arts Biel-Bienne, Switzerland.

He is currently doing a master study for Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Albanology Studies in Tirana.