Nenad Opačić was born in 1949 in Varaždin. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb the Class of Professor Raul Goldoni in 1972. From 1972 to 1975, he was a member of the Professor Krste Hegedušić's Master Workshop. From 1976 to 1991, he was the director of the Karas Gallery of Croatian Association of Artists in Zagreb. He exhibited works in over eighty one-man and more than two hundred group shows at home and abroad. In his Varaždin based studio, with adjacent open-air gallery, he organizes art gatherings. This is always coupled with a new set of sculptures and paintings, in and out of the studio. A monograph with 366 reproductions and essays by Z. Rus and Đ. Opačić was the crown of his 50-years creative ouvre in 2009. For his artistic work Opačić get many recognations and awards. He has been the chairman of the varaždin branch of the Croatian Association of Artists since 2011. He lives and works in Varaždin as independent artist.

In his work, Opačić is focusing the same existentialist theme, especially in the cycle of sculptures titled "Cyborg". The purpose of his creativity is in resolving the problem of human existence in the modern civilization-technological context, determined by consumer mentality and cultural superficiality. Sculptural forms of Nenad Opačić summarize the tragedy of everyday destruction of humanity in man and the reduction of his humanistic substance. This alienation from his own human nature into mere functionalism and the mechanical repetition of a uniform rhythm of life, forms a robotized man in "Cyborg".