Dražen Trogrlić was formed as an artist during the flourishing of post-modern renewed unveiling of the expressiveness of the artistic matter itself. Resting permanently open to the impulses of real life, the artist expressed himself  within his abundant work through numerous mutually different mediums – from paintings, drawings and graphics through sculptures made of stone, metal and glass to design and architecture of the interiors.
Fascinated by challenge of the new, Trogrlić devotes himself entirely in cycles to certain materials/mediums, penetrating into the essence of their substance.

In the last cycle Trogrlić devoted himself to the element of water, working parallelly on water-colours and, not by chance, on objects made of glass.
His «Water Continents» overflow through the whiteness of the paper in explosion of colours. They hover about, float and vibrate, evoking the wide space of primordial ocean at dawn of life. To the movement and instability of water he opposes the glass, its durability and cold persistence. Water and glass -  the front and the seamy side of the same transparency in which the light is captured, the proto-element of everything.

Dražen Trogrlić was born on July 19, 1958 in Varaždin where he finished attending primary and secondary school. In 1978 he started studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
He graduated in 1983 in the class of professor Raoul Goldoni. From 1983 to 1985 he partakes in the master's workshop of professor Ljubo Ivančić and professor Nikola Reiser in Zagreb.
In 1993 and 1994 he was engaged in the interior arrangement of the church of St. Vendelin in Jarmina near Vinkovci which was destroyed during the war. From 1995 to 1998 he designs the spatial arrangement of the set-up together with  the making of show-cases and the inventory for the entomological collection of the City Museum in Varaždin. In 1998 he manufactured the stained-glass window on the theme of St. Francis: The song of creatures for the church in Rumboci near Prozor, on the surface of 80m2. In 2000 he created an impressive crucifixion made of steel for the Monastery of St. Paul - The Franciscan Theology in Sarajevo. In the same year the Educational programme of the Croatian Television filmed a 40-minute documentary on painting and in great part on the sculpture of Dražen Trogrlić under the title The beginning and the work of art.
For study purposes he stayed in Italy in 1988 and in Germany in 1995.
He is the author of many graphic maps.