Jagor Bučan was born in 1968 in Zagreb, where he graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design in 1987, at the Department of Metalworking, guided by professor Hrvoje Ljubić. He graduated from the Academy of  Fine Arts (AFA) in Zagreb in 1992, at the Department of Painting in the class of professor Josip Vasilije Jordan. After working at the AFA in Zagreb as an assistant at the course of lectures dealing with the Theory of Space, from 1999 to 2003 he guided the same course of lectures at the AFA in Široki Brijeg. He is the member of the Croatian Society of Artists.
Since 1995 Bučan has presented himself to the Croatian public through several exhibitions held in Zagreb, Rijeka and the island Hvar. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Split, Zagreb, Karlovac, Koprivnica and Zadar.
Ten years after his graduation work had been awarded by Zagrebačka Banka in 1992 as the best in Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bučan received the award from the Society of University Professors and other scientists in Zagreb.
He is the author of the monograph «Albert Kinert» (Art Studio Azinović, ALU Zagreb, 2002).

Bučan has trifled with the elements of modernistic heritage since the very beginning of his painting development, maturing on the principles set by masters like Cezanne and Klee, the first through his composed relations and the latter by new evaluation of colour. Geometrical abstraction of the last century 50's served Bučan as the catalyst in process of the purification of form and it led him into the stage of strictly rational, architecturally built compositions of his latest cycle of paintings.