Vassilen Vasevski was born on 9.08.1969 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He has been practising as a fine art professional for more than thenty years, fifteen of which he has been living and working in Chicago, the USA, where he is currently an instructor at the Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL.

In 1997 he completes an M.F.A. degree in Paiting at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria and in 2003 – an AS degree in Commercial Arts at Indiana –Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN. He has participated in numerous exhibitions at various galleries and museums in the USA, the Netherlands and Bulgaria, one of which was at the National Gallery of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria (2012). He has been awarded several awards – Illinois Art Council Award (2009, 2007) and Skokie’s Art Guild Award, the USA (2013).

"I call the style in which I create my works “metaphorical romanticism”. It describes my creative belief that life is a series of dreams, expectations and memories and art is their reflection. In my painting I rely on soft, pastel tones and on the decorative construction of the pictorial space. Often the forms in my canvaces are not entirely finished so that they can leave more room for interpretation by the spectator. I believe in the fated mission of art to educate and change a person for the better, offering them a world of harmony and higher order."