Veljo Stanišić was born in Nikšić in 1964 and graduated in Graphic Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1989. Prior to that, he completed a two-year fine arts program at the Faculty of Education in Nikšić.

He has held solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Podgorica, Prijedor, and Kragujevac, as well as participating in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad.