Valentin Angelov

Valentin Angelov was born in Sofia in 1961. He graduated from the High School of Fine Arts in 1979 and subsequently from the "Nikolai Pavlovich" National Academy of Art in Sofia in 1985, specializing in printmaking.

He works in the fields of printmaking, advertising, illustration, and painting. He has illustrated children's books, novels, and poetry collections for various publishing houses. He creates animated short films and designed the opening sequences for the show "Ku-ku"—which became a symbol of the 1990s—as well as for "Hashove" and many others. Over the years, he has worked as an art editor for periodicals and has produced hundreds of caricatures. He teaches advertising design and visual communication at the Bulgarian-Danish College in Sofia. He has held over 30 exhibitions in Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Russia. In 1988, he won first prize at the Drawing Biennial in El Ferrol, Spain. His works are held by the National Art Gallery and the Sofia City Art Gallery, as well as in private collections in Bulgaria, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, England, and Germany.

Over 100 political cartoons and more than 200–300 smaller works of his have been published in newspapers. Valentin Angelov’s works are inspired by themes from antiquity, mythology, and philosophy, which he reimagines by combining real and unreal imagery.